Hello Everyone,
This is my first post, I just found this community and I'm excited to know I may be able to upgrade my Synology NAS to a newer version.
I have a Synology RS409 running DSM 4.2-3259. This unit no longer has any updates from Synology and I was hoping to give it a refresh to a newer version of DSM.
I searched around the forums and I couldn't find any instructions on upgrading DSM on official hardware.
The main reason I wanted to upgrade is to be able to create a volume bigger than 16TB, I have 4 x 8TB archive drives and I would like to create a Raid5 array which would be approximately a 24TB volume RAW. I'm hoping the newer DSM will allow me to upgrade but if this wont work then I can live with DSM 4.2.
Has anyone accomplished this and how were you able to do it. I suspect just downloading a newer PAT file and manually upgrading using a version that is built for another device will not work.
I don't have any data to backup and I can reset the unit as needed.
thanks.