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How dose it help ? what did you have in Mind ?

So the onboard Lan on my motherboard died Running XPEnoboot_DS3615xs_5.2-5565.1 Need a Replacement Nic card that work out of the box Cheep also I don't more Small PCIE Slots the current board just has one .

@ig88 The onboard Nic has Died so I need to replace it what should get I need something cheep Looking at this unless know something better 10Gtek for Intel I210 Chip 1G Gigabit Ethernet Network Card (NIC), Single Copper RJ45 Port, PCI Express 2.1 X1, Same as I210-T1

@IG-88 so here what I done I'm using 1st 4 Ports on my card for Crap Drives The card is fine for what using it for and that Data won't matter . I run Experiments on that one I have none motherboard's SATA Ports So when I get the new Drives they be put there That gives me 4 Drives 4 TB Each Raid5 or SHR 12 TB and 1 Can Fail .

I'll see if can find a Old one

I'm only use 4 TB Drives Hope to buy 3 Of them in late MArch early april larger drive are not in my Price Range ..

Here the finished Server till I get some more Drives

I ending up Buying This 6 Port PCI Express 2.0 SATA III 6Gbps RAID Controller Card, SATA 3.0 PC https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07TV4XJ7S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Hoping this one works I can confirm this card works I've now got six more ports Thank to great people here for getting down this path

I ending up Buying This 6 Port PCI Express 2.0 SATA III 6Gbps RAID Controller Card, SATA 3.0 PC https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07TV4XJ7S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Hoping this one works also got Clovertale Braided ATX Sleeved Cable Extension kit for Power Supply Cable Kit, PSU connectors, 24 https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07BV6BDX7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Plus this 500 Watt Power sulppy https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0081H7EDK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0081H7EDK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I name all my Nas Drives after BattleStars From Battlestar Galactica This one is Pegasus She made from old Core Dual with 3 gigs of ram thanks for everyone's Help

It the 24 Pin connector and 4 pin that are too short .. It's fit fine in the case

I'll need the cag for all the drives

Thanks IG trying to find Power supply will be hard part ..

Okay so I got my Sever going but I going move it to a Antec P180 (case is like the one Below) Once i get the following Parts (1) The Power supply goes in the bottom current one the cables are too short for Power connections and there not enough SATA for 10 to 12 Drives .. I'll use the 5'25 Bays as Slide out Drives There room for 16 Hard drives will only use 10 so I can space out the heat (2) I am going need also a PCI Card that card 6 SATA Drives and fast Nic card 10/100/1000Mbps Running DS3615xs 6.1 Jun's Mod V1.02-alpha ISO with DSM_DS3615xs_15284

Every time I try to reinstall the nas wants to me Recover I want to reinstall how can I do it

For now I went back to DSM_DS3615xs_5565.pat Cause it working with this bootloader the others don't they get stuck XPEnoboot_DS3615xs_5.2-5565.1https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pGtfWx0vTtaWeDY8-JsBEEf6-JzNgEdk/view?usp=sharing

There really not alot data on it I am using as Test Bench anyways to learn how to use docker I still need to buy 3 3TB hard Desk later this year Tried install 103b and it gets suck CPU: Intel E6420 RAM: 7GB @ 800 Mhz MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5B-V POWER SUPPLY: 350W STORAGE: 300GB Hdd + 500GB Drive

Thanks for your help I have XPEnoboot_DS3615xs_5.2-5565.1 Running with DSM_DS3615xs_5565.pat It tells me there upgrade DSM-6.0-8754 do I ignore it ?

I got it

Decided to go with Intel6420 System what do I need to get it going Can you give me steps or Links to area of the site I can Read to get me up to speed I found thus youtube vid Thanks IG88

hay guys Want files should down load for this ?

could also buy this instead CPU: Intel E6420 RAM: 3GB @ 800 Mhz MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5B-V POWER SUPPLY: 350W STORAGE: 300GB Hdd I'm look to do this on the cheep and then go buy the harddisk

I see this one

Hi everyone new member here I'm possibly looking Adam stalling xpenology on a HP XW4600 Intel Core2Quad Q9300 CPU 4gb ram 640gb HD My Current Nas is too small it's 2 bay nas from Synology would like to add 4 X 2 TB Hard disks for 8 TB of space 5 any thing should be worried about ?