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  1. Yes, I went with DS918+ for that reason, but turned out that I don't use at all transcoding cause my TV plays every file effortlessly. How hard it is to switch my DSM for the DS920+ build without losing any settings and most importantly any data?
  2. Thanks @Peter Suh for some insights, but my main issue is why are the 2 sata ports on my motherboard not recognized. As for the HBA - I also only use the first 4 ports and that would leave me with 8 ports total ( 2 + 2 + 4 ), but I'm annoyed that can't use them. I'll run the red pill builder again and try various satamap/sataportmap configurations to try and solve my issue. Oh and my volumes are SHR and i'm not using hardware Raid.
  3. I've set all my SATA ports to hotswap in bios, but that didn't help
  4. A newbie here, so apologies if I make this needlessly too long or use the wrong terms. This will be a long story (TL;DR at the bottom) - it all started last week by me adding a new 6TB drive to my baremetal build and connecting it to the sata 2 port on my motherboard (that's the 3rd port and it's only 3Gb/s but that's still plenty for me) and whatever I tried the system didn't recognize the drive attached. I was already thinking that I received a DOA drive. I also thought maybe I don't even have enough power for the drive (using a molex splitter and a sata splitter, I'll get a better PSU). Anyways, I took my trusty external USB3 hdd case and confirmed that the new drive is indeed alive and kicking on my desktop PC. So next thing was to connect the new drive into one of the already used sata ports - and it worked. Of course this got my volume degraded, so first it needed to rebuild itself on a new drive, then adding a new (old)drive - it was doing that for a good 3-4 days lol I also had to destroy my SSD cache volumes to be able to use the new drive. TLDR I added a drive, connected to the 3Gbs sata ports on my MB and it wasn't recognized. Had to do some silly cable juggling to make it work, but it's still not fine. So my question is: do I have to make a new DSM build every time when I add a new drive or why aren't the two sata slots on my MB recognized? How should I update my DSM to the latest and be able to use the sata 2 & 3 slots for my HDDS (I'm planning to add another drive) Baremetal system on GA-H81M-S2PV-rev-10 motherboard with i3 and 4gb ram and HBA (8 Port SATA III PCE-e 2.0 x2 Card - SI-PEX40071 ) that has a sata multiplier. Currently has 5x 6TB WD Red working (connected to sata 0 & 1 and the last three connectors on the HBA). 2 liteon SSDs for read/write cache disconnected I used tinycore redpill 0.8 and DS918+ DSM 7.1-42661 Update 1 Additional question: is there a way to use all 8 ports on my HBA successfully?
  5. Update: I reflashed the boot usb with the DS918+ image and using that successfully with the PCI - SATA card (one drive being connected to it).
  6. Got the DS920+ image working thanks to a YouTube video. Does this mean I can't expand the drive array? Can I add an SSD for cache? Also, curious if PCIe to SATA cards are recognized? Have one 8 port with Marwell chip, planning to use later.
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