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Shai

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  1. 37 minutes ago, jensmander said:

    When using SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID) I would recommend to mark which HDD is on which port.

     

    That is a good idea, I have marked what number the drives are according to their serial number, but have not marked which SATA port on the motherboard they connect to, so I will definitely do that once the first part of the backup has completed.

     

    39 minutes ago, jensmander said:

    To test your new system

     

    Pity I just sold an old working Q9300 CPU with motherboard, graphics card and 8GB RAM the other day. Such is life I guess. Thanks again.

  2. Oh wow, this is really good advice. I really didn't think of these things, so I will definitely look at these options.

     

    If it looks like I need to replace the old Optiplex, is there a way to save the data or will I have to back it all up somehow?

     

    Thanks so much for your help and advice so far, I really appreciate it.

     

    Shy

  3. Hello,

     

    First time post. I am running Xpenology on DSM 5.2 on an old Dell Optiplex 755 Tower.

     

    Just recently, I noticed that watching any movies from the server were constantly pausing and buffering. One of the drives was reporting a number of IO errors and I did some network speed tests and I think this drive is causing the issue. I have bought another drive to replace the one I think is causing the issue.

     

    Are there any steps I need to do first to replace the disk or can I just remove the faulty hard drive and insert the new one?

     

    I was trying to add the extra drive as a 5th one first, but there are only 4 internal SATA ports and one eSAT port on  the motherboard. Is there a compatible PCIe SATA controller card I could try using?

     

    I am just a little nervous as I do not want to lose all the data on the Xpenology box.

     

    Thanks,

    Shy

     

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