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One thing that does work, but is a bit a ******* for anything other than a new setup, is :- Build a single disk real Synology box (make sure the box you choose it capable of the number of cams you need, there are limits defined) load up all your licences. Build your Xpenology box up, "seed" the install by importing the single drive from you existing real Synology, you now have Xpenology with licenses loaded, add more HDDs as you like and you are good to go. You may have to manually define the cam storage volume (huge effort, takes seconds) but this does work and I have several HP Proliants running large cams counts effortlessly by this method. I didn't use the real Synology MAC or Serial but they have been up for years all fine. I haven't tried to re-use the keys (as I can see trashing the licenses would be a nightmare to sort out) and TBH the system is fairly priced so £40/cam is not an issue, I just need better hardware than Synology offer (ILO in particular, but Xeons, large RAM, 10GBs) so it works for me... One thing that does work, but is a bit a ******* for anything other than a new setup, is :- Build a single disk real Synology box (make sure the box you choose it capable of the number of cams you need, there are limits defined) load up all your licences. Build your Xpenology box up, "seed" the install by importing the single drive from you existing real Synology, you now have Xpenology with licenses loaded, add more HDDs as you like and you are good to go. You may have to manually define the cam storage volume (huge effort, takes seconds) but this does work and I have several HP Proliants running large cams counts effortlessly by this method. I didn't use the real Synology MAC or Serial but they have been up for years all fine. I haven't tried to re-use the keys (as I can see trashing the licenses would be a nightmare to sort out) and TBH the system is fairly priced so £40/cam is not an issue, I just need better hardware than Synology offer (ILO in particular, but Xeons, large RAM, 10GBs) so it works for me...

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Hi Guys First NOOB ALERT!!!!! Just thought I'd share a recent build. I have a pile of Xpenology systems up for both CCTV use and Nakivo Backup and they work well with hardware spec leagues above anything Synology provide. I do have a pile of Synology kit and rate it highly until you need brute for performance. My goto builds are Intel X56xx Xeons, 12GB (ram is SO cheap for these any less seems silly) in either SuperMicro (handy as they have Intel Nics which are the easiest to re-program the MAC on) boxes or HP Blades servers. But today a client wanted a quite, fast Nakivo device. So enter a HP Proliant ML350p (in Tower as they have no racks and it sits in their studio) single E5-1620 V2 4C 3G7Hz CPU, 4x4GB 1600r Ram, 6 x 6TB SAS HDDs, Intel 520 Dual 10GB/s Nic. My first move was to place the onboard HP P420i Smart array into IT mode, which had several issues, first my DS3617XS load couldn't see the drives and second as soon as the OS booted all the fans went to full speed and nearly blew on of my kittens off the bench! Bit of a poke around in HP ILO, the P420i was showing as a "failed" storage device, which is reason enough for the HP to send the fans to rocket mode! So enter plan 2, a LSI 9217i HBA board, this needs longer SFF-8087 cables than the supplied ones. The intel X520 Nic works off the bat (obviously after a MAC re-program) and I did have the onboard Quad 1GB/s Nic disabled in bios. I've got a 30GB SSD in there as my "Boot" drive, this is on the CDrom SATA cable with the controller set to AHCI mode in bios, this let me play around with SAS config without a complete reload every time. Just as a check I added a HP SAS expander ( 487738-001 468405-002 use HP SPP to flash up to to 6GB/s if you buy and old one) which works fine, this let you hang 32 SAS or SATA HDDs (28 internal 4 on an external SFF 8088 connector) off a single port on the LSi, so you could have 32 internal drives as the LSi still has a spare port, with 2 Expanders you can get to 64 drives. Note this would work for SATA drive, BUT you must have a SAS HBA to the expander as you can endpoint SATA onto a SAS bus, but not connect SAS kit onto a SATA bus. I would suggest a Netapp box with IOM6 controllers would be a better option than ramming 64HDDs into a chassis and trying to power them! I currently waiting for the array build so i can compare this to Ubuntu on the same hardware using HP hardware r5. The reason for the Xpenology build was the client has several Synology NAS devices (like 6!) and feels happier managing the backup device from the GUI than the Linux Shell. I hope this is vaguely use for someone, I have learnt a lot from this space...... One question, anyone have a utility to change the MAC on Broardcom Nic without using Ethtool? S