dbosman

I had a working Xpenology system running on a Dell Optiplex 3020 with an onboard NIC. Flash drive is a Lexar if that matters. So I decided to keep learning and create a new Xpenology box specifically to backup my in-laws over the internet. Suffice to say it didn't go as planned. The flash drive did boot up the start. So, I decided to try that flash drive on my existing, working, Xpenology box. That booted up but found no drives. Oh, oh!. I shut that down pulled that flash drive and tried to start off what had been working minutes before. Again the connection page/site came up, but no drives found. Drat! Any suggestions or ideas will be gratefully accepted and tried. Thanks. Don

That's what I was thinking, but hoped not to find out its true. It looks like one USB port for the loader and just three for drives. Two in RAID 1 and one hot spare. If that works. Thanks.

Hello, My name is Don and I'm a Windows hardware support tech. I setup one instance of Xpenology on a refurbished Dell desktop. I want another system as I've had issues with not having multiple backup options. What I'd like to use is a Gigabyte Brix with an Intel i5 - which boots from NVME and has four SATA ports. My question is, can the internal NVmE be used as a boot drive? I'd like to boot from the NVmE so I can use the four USB 2.0 connectors for four SATA drives using USB to SATA adapters. Three in a RAID with one as a hot swap. Speed is not an issue as this will strictly be a backup device, not online storage. I've seen from searches that NUCs and thin clients with USB boot, but not found anything yet on NVmE boot. Thanks.