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I have a Chenbro NR12000 1U server that holds up to 12x SATA 3.5" HDDs via help from it's built-in LSI SAS2008/9201-8i HBA controller (in IT mode), an E3-1245 v2 3.4 GHz 4c/8t CPU, 32 GB DDR3 ECC unbuffered RAM and will have a Mellanox ConnectX-3 dual port 40 GBe QSFP+ NIC in the PCI-e slot. Are all of these compatible with Xpenology? If so, which loader and Synology model should I go with?

So, slight change of plans - I went ahead and copied the data from FreeNAS to Synology over gigabit and that took almost a week (I had already started copying when I originally started this thread). But I just impulse bought new bigger HDDs (Black Friday deal) and now I want to upgrade the Synology box. I imagine upgrading the RAID set one drive at a time would be take very long considering the new HDDs' size (i.e., 4 times the rebuilding/resilvering process), so is it possible to drop both sets of drives (old 4x6TB SHR and new 4x10TB SHR) in the XPEnology box and copy data much faster directly/locally? P.S. - I put the current Synology 4x6TB HDD set in XPEnology box and it prompted me to migrate the installation, but I stopped as I wanted to try my idea mentioned above, but don't know how to go about setting up the 4x10TB HDD set in XPEnology to copy data over and then popping it in the Synology box without issue. P.P.S. - The XPEnology build has an 8 HDD bay

So put the drives in the XPE box first and create the RAID? Doesn't DSM install OS stuff, hardware drivers and initial app/package stuff specific to the box upon first installation? Wouldn't that installation fail to boot when forklifted into the DS415+?

I need to transfer tens of TBs of data onto my Synology DS415+ but since it only has a gigabit NIC it's estimated to take over a week to transfer. The server (FreeNAS) with the source data has 10 Gb networking and I can piece together a XPEnology build with 10 Gb networking too. The drives going into the DS415+ are new (this will be a fresh DSM installation) - can I set up the drives as desired in the DS415+ (SHR RAID and btrfs), forklift the drives into the XPEnology box to transfer the data over with the much faster 10 Gb networking and then forklift the drive back into the DS415+? Will this work? If not, any other ideas?

https://hedichaibi.com/fix-xpenology-problems-viewing-internal-hard-drives-as-esata-hard-drives/ Problem solved, I think, by following the above article. All drives show up as internal drives now and volume1 went from a red degraded icon to amber/orange icon after making the changes in the synoinfo.conf files. The volume1 showed 3 drives as Normal and 1 drive as Initialized. Kicked off a repair of volume1. All data appears to be there. Also, it appear the order does not matter when migrating a set of drives in RAID to another HBA - Linux/DSM will still see a RAID set (albeit some drives may show up as external drives after the move without modifying the synoinfo.conf files).

I installed DSM succsessfully with a 4 x 500 GB RAID5 volume1 on the motherboard's built-in SATA ports. Then later successfully added a 8 port SATA PCI-e card with 4 x 2 TB RAID5 volume2 (separate pool). When I moved the first volume/pool (volume1) to the 8 port SATA PCI-e card the volume/pool degraded. I powered off the machine and put the volume1 drives in the original order (but still on the PCI-e card), but it still shows up as degraded. I'm not sure if this is part of the problem, but I noticed 2 of the volume1 drives are now showing up as external hard drives (and not regular drives in Storage Manger -> HDD/SSD). How do I fix it so volume1 gets back to good standing and on the PCI-e card (I don't want to use the motherboard's built-in SATA ports)??