nadiva

yep, thanks for that. heh i might buy a syno for family, but for me i wouldn't call their retail machines great, as they throw outlet CPUs inside, no ECC, no full disk encryption, security is poor out of the box, running services under root, forcing Plex to be an user sharing the data with real users (who are forced to be part of users group), etc etc. but but all of this can be tweaked in a persistent way. same with the patches - i find it trivial to make it persistent even after upgrades. even other OS deleted some of my tweaks, actually exactly the same - e.g 10gbit NIC, so i scheduled it using their persistent scheduler. regarding NVME, hearing people have no problem running after minor and major upgrades! that's why i love DSM on custom machine. replace rubbish hardware with decent one, harden the security, and enjoy the greatness. re noise, i'm lucky with it, but it seems DSM is throttling the speed down as well. all seems to be fast generally, but e.g. openssl speed is not fast as it should be. no impact of fan speed mode in Hardware & Power panel. also no luck with synofandebug, synofanconfig, synotune. oh wait, why do i have memory compression on! re audio, yes it works, plug in some 5$ usb sound card with $2 speakers attached, and AudioStation will play music from your custom machine asap. to test, use: /volume1/@appstore/AudioStation/bin/mplayer <file.mp3> and now that we have this command, we can load a notification package from one of the two know alt repositories, and ta da... you have custom notifications with sound. 🔊 i'm customizing what i can: plex trakt total sync for free, ssh via certificate even with homedrives unlocked, mandatory parity check postpone, shell with autocomplete/autocorrect/syntaxhighlightning, update certificate automatically into all apps and make it valid for external domain and on LAN at the same time without ever confirming in browser! etc. if you're interested, let me know.

Hello to the owners of the best NAS server ever. The one and only AMD 12watt 5000passmark device, more than twice as powerful as DS918+ while quieter and lower on energy and at the same price. After installing the great IG-88's image, i just activated NVME with libNVMEpatch and added 10gbit with synoinfo NIC patch. This is my first NAS install (after ovm, freenas, proxmox etc) which didn't crash or didn't need a single restart since set up! No matter what was configured. To my shock, DSM manages its quietness even during transcoding and busy times. All other OS made it shout loud in an annoying sinusoid sound profile. I have a basic Intel 1800MB/s NVME (cheapier than sluggish SSDs of the same size) on a PCIx8, on a generic PCI to NVME adapter and cheap 10gbit Aquantia on PCIx1 (it is PCIx4 but only 1 active lane). Since it's PCI3 it still gives us power thirsty maniacs beautiful 1000MB/s (still i noticed Gen8 owners in other forums moan they will never buy Gen10, stuck in 1gbit era, they should try). Rationally we give the better bus to NVME because it can get benefit of faster internal transfers, while 10gbit will likely won't reach top speed most of the day. There's just a little loss of bandwith. I've put a passive cooler plate on it, it boasts incredible low 24C temperature when idle. So definitely both PCIs can be nicely utilized, 1x is not for low priority devices at all, i attached sound card via USB in order to have notifications loud in future. But i wanted more. I wasn't happy with NVME cache limit of 440GB and possible cache rebuild after reboot (which didn't happen) and possible leak of unencrypted data (not sure if it's the case, can't find out if @ecryptfs@ files are copied there or not) so I've set up a NVME volume: And here's the 2TB NVME working hard to deliver hot data (user data except movies), and being synced to RAID (cold data) in order to create another layer of redundancy like in lazy RAID systems (Unraid, SnapRaid) (attachment). 😋 That was my dream setup like I did replication in ZFS, which however crashed the drives completely and the OS too. In that moment, I looked into IG-88 new messages while wiping the old OS, and realized we can now have a maxed out DSM setup. The last thing to solve is to make RAID drives idle. Probably need to dig deep to agents which maintain the annoying 2GB RAID on each drive. And full disk encryption, but no package in alt repositories.

Sorry for a time waste, i didn't think after pluging in the SNMP/etc combo box disappears and slightly different USB-only screen comes up. It's working. Like everything else.

one thing surprised me in the DS918 setup: no UPS (USB) @IG-88 is this specific for all extras? thank you

beautiful Node SN Model Namespace Usage Format FW Rev ---------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- --------- -------------------------- ---------------- -------- /dev/nvme0n1 INTEL SSDPEKNW020T8 1 2.05 TB / 2.05 TB 512 B + 0 B interesting syno has limit of around 440GB for cache. memory requirement is negligible so i don't get it. i dont mind using less as i keep provisioning SSD/NVMEs anyway, but would like to double it with some hack. ideally keep all hot data there forever, but it looks like this cache will be deleted after reboot. so it's quietionable how useful it will be. in my fantasy, i have it as a standalone drive, full drive encrypted, and keep HD drives idle like in opensource NAS solutions. those are the 3 features to let go in favor of DSM unparallel productivity.

Hardware: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen10, AMD CPU, 32G ECC RAM, SSD+4xHDD+NVME, Aquantia+2xBroadcom NIC DSM Version: DS3918+ 6.2.2-24922 Update 4 w extra918plus_v0.7_test Bootloader: 1.04b Install Method: Migration Results: Success Notes: some extra reboots. libNVMEpatch and synoinfo NIC patch. 10gbit with NVME working Hardware: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen10, AMD CPU, 32G ECC RAM, SSD+4xHDD+NVME, Aquantia+2xBroadcom NIC DSM Version: DS3615xs 6.2.2-24922 Update 4 w extra3615_v0.5_test Bootloader: 1.03b Install Method: Migration Results: Success Notes: some extra reboots. All good without NVME as expected * can't use more than 442GB of NVME cache - looking for a hack! The way i had it before is use NVME as main drive then replicate, now i'd like it to be huge permanent read cache. is it really true NVME read cache gets deleted after each reboot? * ecryptfs very slow, e.g. HDD 400MBs drops to 150MBs on any filesystem/RAID, this is the biggest disappointment, basically im forced not to use it for all files 😖 * openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc/xts on par with others OS (well, full disk encryption would have shined here) * iperf3 on par with the fastests OS e.g. debian (usually debian > ubuntu > freebsd > anything virtualized) * memory caching works up to sweet 30GB (disable_mttr_trim), when working with huge files only RAM is used while saturating 10gbit, great for video editing * reboot/shutdown works (i noticed it didn't in the past), will test if power button works once files are copied * all sensors read, all temperatures correct, SMART statuses ok, Ironhealth is a nice extra * sound from machine works without any packages.. 🔉🔊 would love to 'qnap' it, sends some statuses to speakers.. every machine should at least beep!

extras 0.7 918+ on gen10 boot ok boot with updated PAT files ok (that's very good) installation also ok (unlike my attempt...when doing cpio/lzma in freebsd it worked, now i do it in windows and it doesn't..perhpas missing "." folder?) first boot post installation also good extra reboot after "system is getting ready" good user's initial setup good aquantia check OK (iperf3 check.. excellent speed) (synoinfo hack: 3 NICs in) nvme script OK (libNVMEpatch.sh hack: needs reboot asap) -> overall, excellent.. thanks a lot as i just needed this when moving from FreeNAS which failed me a NVME,SSD and RAID at the same time

thanks. does nvme needs some driver from extras? as for the script, yes, i have it ready, and the script works only in 918 version. meanwhile i cooked a build with old extras + added atlantics,aqc111,mvsas,mvumi and i1000e, and trying also maxlanport= override. well so far no success "failed to install file. the file is probably corrupted (13)". but it boots and provides network, so my problem is something is too much for my machine in new extras. although, it's a HP Gen10, not a random junk setup, good to fix it for every next microserver owner.

Thanks for 6.2.2 for 3615 business machines. No problem to install on Gen10 with AMD CPU and Aquantia 10gbit. I still wanted the 918 version because of NVME, but no luck. The machine NIC doesn't come up either 1) on first boot <- when i update rd.gz and zimage from 6.2.2 PAT file 2) after successful installation and first post-installation reboot <- if i don't update the flash file therefore clearly the 6.2.2 files from PAT cause it with combination of extras whether i flash them or installation does it later just like it is hinted in the first post. I can install original 1.04b + 6.2.2 but it's without Aquantia. So frustrating the monitor wont' show anything to find out what's happening. Still no use for NVME:(

sorry, took ages to register..so much networks and emails rejected

Thanks for 6.2.2 for 3615 business machines. No problem to install on Gen10 with AMD CPU and Aquantia 10gbit. I still wanted the 918 version because of NVME, but no luck. The machine NIC doesn't come up either 1) on first boot <- when i update rd.gz and zimage from 6.2.2 PAT file 2) after successful installation and first post-installation reboot <- if i don't update the flash file therefore clearly the 6.2.2 files from PAT cause it whether i flash them or installation does it later just like it is hinted in the first post. So frustrating the monitor wont' show anything to find out what's happening. Still no use for NVME:(

Thanks for 6.2.2 for 3615 business machines. No problem to install on Gen10 with AMD CPU and Aquantia 10gbit. I still wanted the 918 version because of NVME, but no luck. The machine NIC doesn't come up either 1) on first boot <- when i update rd.gz and zimage from 6.2.2 PAT file 2) after successful installation and first post-installation reboot <- if i don't update the flash file therefore clearly the 6.2.2 files from PAT cause it whether i flash them or installation does it later just like it is hinted in the first post. So frustrating the monitor wont' show anything to find out what's happening. Still no use for NVME:(