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OK, I thought I should post how I finally managed to go from 2 drives in SHR to 4 drives in RAID 6. May be useful for newbies (like me ). 1-Pull out one of the two drives and format it to erase it out of the xpenology box. You have now one degraded volume with all the data. 2-Insert the three disks (the formatted one and the two new disks) into the xpenology box and create a new volume (2) in raid 5 3-Using control panel-->shared folders-->edit, move all shared folders (one at the time) from volume 1 to volume 2 4-Delete volume 1 and using the Storage Manager, change RAID type for volume 2, from RAID 5 to 6.

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OK. Because I wanted SHR2 (or RAID6), and there is no way to convert SHR1 in SHR2, I pulled out one disk, formatted it outside the box, then reinserted it into the n54l. Formatted it to volume 2, moved all folders to it, deleted volume 1 and then tried to expand volume 2 to the 3 remaining drives, expecting that it would let me choose the raid type. It does not. Now it is expanding AGAIN to SHR1, and I guess I will end up as I started: with and expanded volume not really expanded. Is there a way of doing this?

Yes. There are two available options: parity check (already done) and volume expansion to 16.6TB. It seems to start but ends in a few seconds and does nothing.

Here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c5xszjxy3fwmt1r/Snap.png?dl=0

I did take a look. I did have my two drives in SHR. With two drives, it it raid 1. When you add two more drives, it has to go from raid 1 to raid 5, which is still with one disk failure tolerance. It simply didnt expand. Dont know why. Yes, it is SHR.

I have a total of 5.5TB, with 150GB of free space. The same I had with 2 disks in shr1 (RAID1). The two additional drives (11TB) do not show. It seems that the RAID 1 did not migrate to RAID 5.

I had two 6TB drives in SHR1 (n54l, DSM 5.0 bare metal) getting full. I purchased two more to a total of four, and started the expansion of volume 1. Two days later the system shows four normal disks...but no more free space than at the beginning. The option "expand volume with unallocated disk space" does nothing, even after a reboot. After I pulled the two disks, the system crashed...After I reintroduced them and a file system check, I am with 4 normal disks, and a total of 5.5TB of volume space. Please. help!!.

En www.xpenology.nl lo tienes todo.

http://www.xpenology.nl/ http://www.xpenology.nl/hp-n54l/

Parece que estaba equivocado y debería funcionar: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4102&p=24495&hilit=+four+cores+#p24495

Es que usamos el soft para la syno 3412, que usa un dual-core. Tendrías que ver si hay una syno tetracore y usar su soft.

Es que hay un post en el foro general acerca de esto, pero está más allá de mis habilidades informáticas

Hay algún tuto fácil para el botón de encendido/apagado?.

Primero el main y luego los updates.

Makes sense!.

I dont get this. Those qnap boxes are expensive. If you dont want the qnap OS, why dont you get a cheaper box (like our popular HP n54l)?

All disks in a raid system should be of similar size. Go to https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator and play.

...Or just get an HP n54l: http://www.xpenology.nl/hp-n54l/ Then install DSM 5.0-4528: http://www.xpenology.nl/hardware-installatie/ http://www.xpenology.nl/standaard-installatie-dsm/ Later install update 1: http://www.xpenology.nl/installatie-dsm ... -update-1/

Latest working is 5.0-4528: http://www.xpenology.nl/hardware-installatie/ http://www.xpenology.nl/standaard-installatie-dsm/ Later install update 1: http://www.xpenology.nl/installatie-dsm ... -update-1/

Es la 5.0-4528. Se instala desde cero, empezando por el USB de arranque: http://www.xpenology.nl/hardware-installatie/ http://www.xpenology.nl/standaard-installatie-dsm/ Luego instala el update 1: http://www.xpenology.nl/installatie-dsm ... -update-1/

I run it bare metal and works fine. Maybe an OS+virtual machine+DSM is too much for the AMD processor in the n54l?.

Aquí hay una discusión acerca de esto. Dicen que hace falta una BIOS modificada para activarlo: http://homeservershow.com/forums/index. ... ata/page-6

Lo malo de hacer eso es que si necesitaras cambiar algo en la bios tendrías que resetearla. Hay botón de reset o batería que se pueda desenchufar para provocarlo?. Porque si no...

The fan on the Gen8 appears to be very noisy. I just saw this fix, just in case you are interested: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1377-page9.html edit: You can brag, as long as we learn something new