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Hi IG-88, Great info, thanks! I'll do some digging around to see what I can come up with. I've struggled with the 3617 in the past, and the 3615 has been my safety net. But I'm definitely up to digging back into that again. The 24 disk Norco setup is mainly just my 3rd backup I take offsite. It's just a amalgamation of drives that have come out of my other two Synology systems after storage upgrades. Thanks again!

Good morning, I've been using a Norco 24 bay chassis with 3x Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards. Over the last few months, the cards have been acting up on the DSM DS3615xs 23739 build. I was looking in to see if there was a RAID controller card that has 24 channels, so I can get down from 3 cards to 1. If anyone has RAID Controller suggestions or links that I can look at, it would be much appreciated! Thanks,

Wow, excellent information. Thanks for taking some time out of your day to educate a novice! Looking forward to digging into this, especially the 3617. I'll toss some updates in here as I progress. Thanks again sir, -Phil

Thanks for the reply. So the backplane I am using has 6 mini-sas connectors (Norco RPC-4224). I assumed I can use the 6 mini sas directly to mini sas? I want to keep the amount of cables down to a minimum. I'm relatively new to the whole SAS environment. I'm surprised to see the motherboard SFF8087...thought all of the data would be carried through the PCI-E 4x slot. Thanks again, -Phil

...side question. I'm looking into a 24 port SAS controller to replace the 3x AOC-SASLP-MV8 controllers I have. Haven't been able to find a compatibility list for the Intel RES2SV240 in the forums. Anyone know if that will work? Thanks, -Phil

Good morning, I've run into an issue, completely stumped. I've done around 10 Xpenology builds over the years, ranging from a 1 to 18 drive setup on all sorts of hardware. This build left me scratching my head. The hardware I have in this build is: Mobo: SupermicroX10SLL-F Controller: AOC-SASLP-MV8 (Three of them) RAM: 4GB ECC Kingston RAM Build: DS3615xs_23739 Loader: jun's_mod_v1.03b_ds3615xs The first thing I ran into is anytime I remove a harddrive, the system instantly crashes and restarts. I've never had that occur on any past builds. This is the first time using a SAS controller, maybe related somehow? The other thing that's my main concern is that each time after a restart, the SAS controller cards show the drives in a different order. I'm worried that when I create a storage pool, the next time the restart kicks off, the pool will crash since the drives are rearranged. Does anyone have experience with this by chance? Many thanks, -Phil