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    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    Host is Hyper-V 2012R2 and client is Windows 10 Technical Preview and mostly probably SMB3 is used

     

    Don't forget that the speed of your rig is 100% connected to the RAID matrix used and the drives inside.

    I have a SHR1 matrix with identical HDDs (well not identical but 3TB drives) and that's a RAID5 which is not the fastest but not the slowest.

     

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    Need More Sata Ports

    in Archives

    Posted

    You actually need only a JBOD SATAII card.

    Why?

    Because DSM will build the RAID matrix and SATAII because of a limit you'll never reach with actual HDD drives.

     

    Cheers

     

     

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    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

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    What is the power consumption (bare metal / ESXI) using the Asrock Q1900?

     

    I'm going to build a second 24/7 XPENology server.

    Currently I'm wondering, wether a Celeron J1900 will save some money comparing against a Celeron Haswell or not.

     

    The J1900 - Bay Trail Intel chipset can't be (yet) used for VMware ESX-based installations as the setup is crashing.

     

    My suggestion is to use a J1900 and go for either Hyper-V or bare metal. You can switch on the way too. Why J1900? Because it has a strong quad-core CPU that can handle and parallelize a lot of tasks. And because it has a TDP of 10W.

    It's silent, strong and stingy in regards to electrical power.

    There is a big difference between WD RED disks and other disks when talking about power consumption. Choose RED disks. You can also go for SSD drives as power consumption is near 0 in comparison to a WD RED drive but they're a bit pricey for their size :smile:

    Take in consideration that (in theory), each PCI slot consumes in average between 10 and 15W of power (just with something plugged-in) If you want a 24/7 xpenobox and consume few watts/h don't use PCI slots.

     

    My system consumes in full load CPU+Drives 37-38W. That's 2x 3TB WD RED disks and 2x 3TB Seagate disks

     

    Cheers

     

     

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    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    I'm using nanoboot 5.0.3.2 with DSM 5.0-4493 Update 7 on Hyper-V 2012R2 and everything is working wonderful!

     

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    Does Hyper-V support something equivalent to the ESXi Raw Disk Mapping function?

     

    Are you able to pass through SMART data through the hypervisor to the DSM OS?

     

    SMART is not working for pass through disks

     

     

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    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    Hi everyone!

    I just bought a Q1900-ITX with a 3TB WD Red, I installed everything but I saw that the system doesn't recognize all 4 cores of the cpu, just 2 of them!

     

    Is there any fixing or it's just a problem of the DMS which is not properly showed? Are they used anyway or not? Is there any way to check about it specially during the transcoding?

     

    Last question, i still not tryied if the hdmi is working, someone tried it out already?

     

    all 4 cores are working. what you see in the gui is just a hardcoded information from the original Synology DS3612 product

    New DSM BETA 5.1 4977 Available

    in General Installation Questions/Discussions (non-hardware specific)

    Posted

    "Beerware"

     

    Relax, this is just a network storage server and it will continue its primary function to store files even with not the latest OS. If its possible to break the latest DSM it will be done one day. Getting the original Synology box and update to the latest "With Bells and Whistles" DSM is still an option for the most impatient.

    Now, where are the "Like" and "Thumbs up" buttons? :wink:

     

    Do you want me to put " send a beer" button instead?

    :grin:

    General questions

    in Archives

    Posted

    Hi again mate,

    DSM is not power hungry at all. Most of us are running our XPEno boxes on low-power dual-core CPU's like Atom. Some like to add more power to their machines just to use the transcoding feature as good as possible. I personally don't use Plex that much. I use DLNA a lot.

    I am using an ASRock Q1900-ITX because it can host up to 6x SATA ports, has an embedded low-power 10w TDP, quad-core, x86, passive-cooling CPU.

    Normally, you wouldn't need an i7 or i3 unless you're doing transcoding for plex but even though, transcoding will work on a less powerful CPU just that the task will take a bit longer.

    DSM is working with 512MB RAM and will work pretty good for normal usage, without any databases or memory intense applications. Most of the users are adding 2 to 4GB of RAM to their boxess mainly because of... commodity :smile:

    Here are 2 screenshots of my system usage when doing a rsync backup to my 2nd NAS

    http://i.imgur.com/lHX4vCA.png

    http://i.imgur.com/yEKQ6m0.png

     

    I have 16GB of RAM because i want to switch from a bare-metal installation to ESX but didn't managed to get the time :-/

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