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    N54L, I removed my 10gb card and I can no longer use the built in network adapter to connect.

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    I recently moved my 10gb SFP+ mellanox 2 card from my NAS to my HP server as I needed it for the management network on that server to speed up vmotions.

     

    Long story short, I plugged a network cable into that box using the built in nic and it wont connect.  I used an IP scanner and it cant find it.

     

    I have monitor and keyboard access, is there anyway I can enable the NIC by hitting C during the boot load process?

     

    I have a ton of data on the NAS and I don't want to lose it.

     

    If I was to plug the 10G nic back in, would it be plug and play and work again?

    N40l SSD Raid speeds?

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    Posted · Edited by Silvershark

    Also wanted to let people know if you use "steam" or anything else that requires a "local disk" for installing applications/games just use the iscsi target on your NAS and the iscsi initiator on your windows box.  I connected a 1TB iscsi drive for Games so I could install my game library within steam.  Seems to be working well!  I can finally get all these games off my local box and on my NAS!  You can also setup iscsi target to allow multiple people to use the same target which could be beneficial if you have multiple people wanting to play games...  You would want to create a seperate folder for each PC though because those files once in game would be locked.

     

    IE: iSCsi Target 1TB with a name of Games.

     

    Setup iScsi initator and attach the drive on PC1.  Then create a folder called User1Games, User2Games,User3Games etc; depending how many PC's you have at home.

     

    Then when you go into steam you would make sure to load all the steam games from PC/User1 into USer1Games go to second PC, attch the drive  and have their library installed/downloaded to User2Games etc etc.

     

    Works GREAT and with 10Gb of network bandwidth and SSD speeds game load times are awesome!

    N40l SSD Raid speeds?

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    Decided to just add a few more drives to my NAS since 3TB drives can be had fairly cheap and then plan to go raid 10 for fast read/writes.  I don't need a ton of space and 6TB will be plenty for my use.  Thanks again for those that responded.

    N40l SSD Raid speeds?

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    Posted · Edited by Silvershark

    Agreed.   I guess I should have stated more or less what I was intended my use for etc.  I am not looking for ballz to the wall performance.   200MB/sec would be fine for what I do.

     

    Basically going to have a game share on NAS for computers using 1gb links for steam download repository, office installs blah blah.  I will then have clients back up to NAS via 1gb ethernet links.

     

    Looking more for overhead and that's why I was thinking going 10Gb since multiple clients will access the same device and I don't want to peg the NIC on 1Gb at 100% at times.

     

    Then I will have a server that backs up to NAS with 10Gb card.

     

    I managed to find some cisco ethernet based transceivers and some hp multi-mode fiber transceivers laying around in a storage room.

     

    I went ahead and ordered some ConnectX2 cards (1 for server, 1 for NAS).  I plan to connect the Server and NAS using a Direct Attached Copper cable for now.  Once I get a switch I plan to use Multimode fiber transceivers and then connect that switch to the rest of my network.

     

    So basically phase 1 will be Server to NAS via DAC, phase two will be switch integrated and use fiber transceivers in NAS/Server and then uplink server to workstations as the rest of my house is currently only 1gb wired and I don't feel like running fiber in the middle of the winter.

    N40l SSD Raid speeds?

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    Thanks, I am very familiar with 10gb, LAG etc.  I use it at work, I just didn't know what DSM specifically supported or people had tried and found worked.  I have a bunch of SFP+/QSFP stuff at work along with a bunch of spare managed switches.  I will look through our retired hardware and see what I can find.

    I may end up using SFP+ transcievers over fiber since we have tons of those laying around.

     

    Thanks again for the assistance!

    N40l SSD Raid speeds?

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    Posted · Edited by Silvershark

    400-500Mbps would be fine.  I plan to go 10g in the future and use the switch below eventually.  The card I listed, is it supported by DSM 6.1?  To test/start I would use a DAC cable and the network cards for now.  So something like this below?  QSFP suppoorts 40gb, where SFP+ only supports 10GB.  So for around $50 I could run 40gbe with QFSP?  Does DSM support Mellanox XConnect-2 thats QSFP?

     

    Network Card (2), one for my NAS and one for my PC.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mellanox-ConnectX-2-VPI-Dual-Port-Networking-Card-MHRH2A-XSR/372582936866?epid=0&hash=item56bfac7122:g:dPMAAOSw411cUHAe

     

    DAC Cable

    https://www.amazon.com/10Gtek-QSFP-H40G-CU1M-Direct-Attach-Passive-1-Meter/dp/B00SIV6PCU/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=qsfp%2B%2Bcable&qid=1576444545&s=electronics&sr=1-3&th=1

     

    Switch

    https://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-CRS305-1G-4S-Gigabit-Ethernet-RouterOS/dp/B07LFKGP1L/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=10g+switch&qid=1576437812&sr=8-6

     

    I guess I need a half height card for the N40L as it does not accept full height cards.

    N40l SSD Raid speeds?

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    Curious if anyone was running SSD's in their NAS yet and if so any ideas on read/writes?  With the longevity of SSD I am contemplating using 4 1tb SSD's in raid 0 and storing all my games there for speed.  I get i will not have any redundancy, but not a big deal as I can just re-download.   I am mainly wanting to store all my games on a fast Raid NAS array and then access them using my 1gb ethernet adapter.

     

    Basically I would map Z: to \\NAS01\Games

     

    Anyone done this yet or doing this with spindle drives?

    N40l install help. 6.1

    in AMD

    Posted · Edited by Silvershark

    I bought another N40L and I can't seem to get 3615xs installed and working.  I did the PID/VID serial and mac.  It boots and all looks ok  via monitor but never shows up on the network.

     

    I downloaded an old 3612xs build and when I boot to that image I can see it almost immediately when it boots so I know network card is good and different version works etc.  I just do not have a good .pat file for 3612xs to get synology installed that route.

     

    Any ideas why 3615xs would boot and not be seen via network?

     

    I am using stock bios and DS3615xs 6.1 Jun's Mod V1.02b (MBR_Genesys).img

     

     

    N40l network card.

    in DSM 6.x

    Posted

    I wanted to report that this little box rocks.  I am running DSM 6.1.7-15284 Update 3 with 6 physical disks, a 4 port intel Nic and the onboard Nic.  They all seem to work great!  The machine has 4gb of DDR ECC memory in it currently.  I tried two 8gb DDR ECC memory sticks and it wouldn't boot.  For simple file sharing and video surveillance 4gb seems to do the job just fine.  I have a total of 9TB of usable disk using raid 5.

     

    Thanks for the software and the great forum!

    N40l network card.

    in DSM 6.x

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    Can someone please link a network card from ebay that will work with Xpenology on my N40l.  I bought a 4 port card but it doesn't work as its a normal profile card and it looks like I need a low profile card.  1 port or 2 port card would be fine.

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