Badjeames

Hello again, I am loving what has been developed with Xpenology and have it running on a bare metal system and it is running great : 2U 8 Bay 2x E5-2630 V1 6 Core 64GB RAM X9DR3-LN4F+ Supermicro and it is running the latest dsm version. but the reason for my post is I am looking for some advice. I started this road many years ago when M$ came out with the Homeserver software and I got my first HP ex475 4 bay unit and that turned out to be under powered so I built a newer system with a Norco 24 bay, well you may know where that went, as homeserver 2011 came out and they killed the drivepool I went with stablebit drive pool, moved on to Server 2012 r2 with the Essentials roll installed on a Supermicro 24 bay hotswap with X9QRI-F+ Motherboard 4x E5-4650 v2 2.4ghz 10-Core 8.0 GT/s / 25mb Smart Cache CPUs 16x 16gb 4Rx4 PC3-10600R Server Memory, than added a 45 bay expansion to that, so I have around 264Tb in two drivepools on that, just a little bit of overkill, but I am disabled and retired. But to make a long winded post shorter, I want to get away from M$, but I know the beast is a little overkill for xpenology and would like some suggestion. It will be a big pain in the back side to remove all of the files from those drivepools, So any suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks Badjames

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.2.3-25426 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.03b DS3617xs - Using custom extra.lzma: No - Installation type: BAREMETAL - Supermicro X9DR3-LN4F+ 64GB DDR3 - Additional comment: Used kernal from pat injected into Jun's Loader v1.03b DS3617xs - only reports 4 cores of 16 but that is ok. Been running stable for 7 days now.

Greetings All, Am semi-new here, poking around and seeing what is what here, was in IT for more years than I like to think about (Just know enough to get myself into trouble) was force into retirement almost six years ago. I really like the development of XPE, was going to buy a unit 4 years ago but could not come up with the funds at the time and bought another system that runs 2012r2 essentials since M$ killed the Homeserver and all. Have a sandbox testing out DSM 6.1.7 and it works better than I had hope and just figuring out how everything works. So I hope that you folks keep up the great works (am hoping to get away from M$ soon) Thank you Guys, Badjames Am soooooooooo confused!