rickym
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I have had a server running for almost a year perfectly and it still is. I want to be sure I do this correctly so I don't destroy my server. would this be the correct procedure if I want to try the latest version of Xpenology on my server. Pull all the drives out of my server and put in just one extra drive that I haven't used on the server to test receive the upgrade . If all seems ok do I just put the original drives back in and boot up and then do the update with those drives installed. I have been putting off updating for a long time and in reality I really don't need to do this. More of a want to. Any advice appreciated. Hope that all made sense.
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Well I will test the 3615 then as I don’t necessarily need a 3617. Just afraid of losing data and at the moment I don’t have a back up drive large enough. I guess it would be prudent to get a large enough hard drive to back up before I even start but I will test it on a spare hard drive. As always thanks for the help
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I am upgrading my mother board. My nas has been running emulating DS918. I have tested with the new motherboard and an extra hard drive and it looks like the new board works better emulating a 3617 and will update to most resent version. My question is migrating to new 3617 os without a total redue. Is that possible.
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Thanks so much for the suggestions.
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I have a Asrock N3700-ITX running xpenology with the onboard nic but I am only getting fast internet speed vs gigabit. I need a recommendation on a NIC card so I can get gigabit speed unless there is another way. It's setup as XS3617.
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I have one move question. My nas is a 4 bay and don't anticipate ever needing more space an than the 4 drives in there but if I setup as raid 10 and at sometime want to have larger drives would I have to backup whole server and then add all 4 larger drives and reset them up in raid 10 array? Hope that makes sense.
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Thanks so much. Still learning and that is exactly what I wanted to know. Raid 10 it is.
I know it's over kill as I am also going to back my nas to usb.
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Since I have setup as SHR2 I guess I could have setup as raid 10 instead to avoid this check. I don't plan on adding more disks or larger disks so is there really any difference between shr2 and raid 10. I have read some about it this morning but still a little confused about the difference with my setup. I am going to also do a backup and thinking hyperbackup looks like an easy way to backup to usb. I want shr2 or raid 10 due to the fact you could lose 2 drives and still be able to recover. This is just for home use and mainly I just like to learn more and I enjoy computers.
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I just set up this new server with 4hard drives And it Automatically started doing the parity check and I didn’t see any option to not do that unless I’m not understanding what you’re saying. This is a brand new Xpenology box
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I am setting up another Xpenology box with 3 4tb drives. Is it possible to setup the box without doing the parity check? Even with 4 2 tb drives on my other box it took forever. 2nd question is if at some time I have to replace a hard drive will it have to do the whole parity check again. Will be setup as SHR 2 like my other box.
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I will give that a try before I decide to mangle my case. I didn't realize heat was ever a problem with ssd's. Thought that was only a spinning hard drive problem.
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Yes and Lian Li makes the best cases out there. I never have had problems before but I have all 4 bays filled now. I use to only have 2 and I think it's just generating too much heat. I either need a new case or need to cut a hole in the top for an exhaust fan. Not sure what I will do.
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I need to build another Xpenology box. I will be using a mini-itx motherboard and need a board that works with the built in network as the only slot will be taken up by a sata card due to the amount of drives. Any recommendations? Also would like low power usage so one with a onboard cpu. Thanks in advance.
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It may actually be running too hot. My server case is my favorite 4 bay server case out there as besides the 4 bays it has a place on each side for the ssds. Problem is it has one fan that blows on the hard drive cage but it's not getting air from outside the case. It's a Chenbro SR30169 server case. Been real tempted to have a hole cut in the top and add an exhaust fan.
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This has probably been covered but can't seem to find the answer. I setup a friends server. He's running 3 2 tb hard drives setup as SHR. He bought another 2 tb drive and wants it to be setup as SHR 2 as he is real paranoid about losing data. My question is can we just add a 4th drive and convert to SHR2 or do we need to start from scratch. I will be doing it for him and don't want to screw it up. Thanks in advance
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33 minutes ago, sbv3000 said:
also, have you thought about some monitoring via an SNMP app (eg Paessler PRTG), you can get a lot of drive/device stats through the syno built in mibs and standard device mibs with that app, might give you some extra data to help diagnose.
I would but I am fairly new and have no idea what your talking about.
Funny thing is it has worked fine for a few months and just started doing it. Just about ready to eliminate the cache as I don't see hardly any difference in the performance.
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I have had no luck. Nothing makes sense. I tried one ssd at a time using only one ssd and the server doesn't shut down no matter how hard I push it. I have tried another ssd with each of the ssd's I had been using and whenever I have 2 ssd's no matter which ones including the new one my server shuts down saying ssd overheats. Makes me think there is actually a problem with xpenology software that something might have gotten corrupted. tempted to start from scratch and redo everything. Just looking for opinions. Hope that all made sense.
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Don't know which one but that's a great idea. I will add one back in for a few days and see what happens. If all goes well will swap it for the other one. Thanks for the suggestion.
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I guess it's possible but it ran some tests on it and no errors and all seems ok. Physically isn't hot at all but you are probably correct. On a good note ssd's of the 128 gb or 256 gb are getting dirt cheap.
To be honest I disabled them and really didn't notice any speed difference so may just not use them.
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I have a 4 bay server running xpenology DS918 and it's works fine except I had to disable cache. I had 2 120gb Samsung ssds for caching. Under heavy use it automatically shuts down. When I turn back on the error messages is that one of my cache ssd's is overheating. Tested both drives and they seem fine. Do you think it's a real error or a prob with xpenology not sensing drives correctly/
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- Outcome of the installation/update: UNSUCCESSFUL
- DSM version prior update: DSM_DS3617xs_23739
- Loader version and model: JUN'S LOADER v1.03b - DS3617
- Using custom extra.lzma: NO
- Installation type: BAREMETAL - Hp Mediavault EX485 with upgraded E8200 Processor
- Additional comments: after reboot no network connection. Luckily I have learned so now I have an extra hard drive and flash drive for testing. Learned
after last time when I just went for it and had to do everything over again. 🤣
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I have an ex485 and I had no problem using the bottom drive on my server.
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I couldn't agree with you more and I definitely learned my lesson.
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I almost had a disaster as I updated to the latest version and was locked out. jensmander on the forum gave me some suggestions and I am up and running. I am not real technical like many on this site so what I need is the simplest way to backup my complete server. I will buy an external usb drive to do it and just want an easy way for the less technical person to accomplish this. Thanks in advance.
Testing a new version of Xpenology
in DSM 6.x
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One thing I need to do no matter what is buy a large enough extra hard drive so I can actually backup my server as has been said often raid is replacement for backup and I don't have a backup drive for it.