fonix232

You mean what ever comes up on web interface or the steps used for installing 4.2 ? The steps that appear on screen.

The proper way to do is the following (loss of apps, settings, etc., inevitable, unfortunately, but you can possibly make a backup): 1. Take your boot USB key, and write the new 3810 img on it. 2. Boot your NAS from said USB key 3. Use Synology Assistant from another computer to find the NAS booted from the USB key 4. Open the web interface by right-clicking the found entry 5. Follow the steps described. It won't reboot, but it will load the login page with the new details. 6. Sit happy and clap your hands that you just erased all your settings, etc.

While it is true that 4.2 works fine on a network in a single instance, but the problem is when you want multiple devices on the same network, or want to use a Synology service (e.g. DDNS). For the former, you need different MAC addresses, otherwise your devices will not be recognized (well, one will be, but all the others won't). Latter is if you want a custom serial number, to register at Synology. This means, you don't need it. But for example, I'd like to be able to modify my serial number and MAC address, just in case.

and I have to disagree with you, on various points: But that does not stop us, right? By the way, the term "cheaper systems" might not be correct - lets say, unauthorized systems. It is not that widespread. I'd bet my kidneys that only 5-10% of the DSM runners are actually on unofficial hardware. The largest clients of Synology are bigger companies covering simple server functions - they cannot just get a hacked release from the internet and run it. And those purchases are HIGH compared to the personal ones.We have a small-ish electronics store in my town, and I have talked with the guys working there (they sell some barebone and ready-to-use NAS from ReadyNAS, WD, Synology, and some other brands). They said that the Synology sales outnumber the barebones sales about 1:5. Besides, we are doing it for this kind of fun, aren't we? Hack it, then look out for Synology, see what they got to throw at us next time. Every release has a disclaimer that it might break, etc., so everyone uses it at their own responsibility. You can post your build, write some nice text that it is a one-time release, no updates, no fixes, etc., and nobody can have a word. For you, maybe. But the number of technically savvy people on these boards is quite limited. Hell, even me, whom I consider quite experienced with IT, couldn't recreate your method (but that's mostly because I don't know how to C++). So yes, there are like, 5-6 guys who can recreate what you did, and that's it. These people are not kiddies. They are tinkerers too, waiting to try the latest new stuff. We are aware that any update can break the system, delete our data, cause nuclear armageddon, blow the planet up, or eradicate the planet from time and space in every continuity, yes. That's why I wouldn't install it on a live system, but for playing around... I'm pretty sure that if you gave a sound solution to base on, someone (looking at Trantor right now ) would take it over and maintain it, patching it up to the latest. And that's why we have trusted releasers. I for one only installed releases from this forum, from people who actually cared to update their products. Plus I never store sensitive information on my NAS, it is only for movies, pictures, etc. That's what disclaimers are for. You don't have to take responsibility at all, as long as every details is shared and everyone is on the same level of knowledge (e.g. telling people that you changed this and this and this to make it work, so they can see how you affected the system's workings). Those systems, while really nice, won't come near to Synology. Maybe when the big change with OMV 0.6 comes (new desktop-like UI as promised, maybe an actual OMV package manager to download ready-to-use system services e.g. e-mail, wordpress, etc., a la Synology, and also the revamped installer), then it will be mature enough to be used. But right now it is a one-man project, and while the guy does a really great job, it is going slow. So no, not ready for prime-time. FreeNAS is okay if you want to deal with BSD (something that I don't), and OpenFiler, well, I never liked it. It is more of a NAS-only OS. Synology is multifunctional.

What would be the point? XPEnology is a NAS OS - its main functionality is hosting services for home or a small business. It is meant to be a storage and service provider - sharing files and services from a virtual environment would be much slower than running them on your actual computer. Given that most of the services can either be found natively on a Mac, or installed 3rd party (Plex, DLNA, etc.), there is no point of getting DSM in a virtual environment. But answering your question, yes, it is possible, in Virtualbox. I'm not so sure about Parallels.

Depends on your config. You have to modify the ports so that eSATA is detected as eSATA, and not as internal port (I believe Trantor's release already has this fix). In this case, the device's partitions are mounted just as a USB drive gets mounted, and you can access the data, but I was unable to create shares on removable storage so far.

RAID1 will have the speed around 50-60MBps. I myself use my hard drives in a Synology Hybrid RAID, and I can get speeds up to 80-90MBps on wireless. Wired can go up to 120-130MBps momentarily, then stabilizes around 110-120.

What you could do is: - Get an N54L - Get a supported wired network card (preferably a double port one) - Get a supported wireless network card (USB or PCI, doesn't matter). From there, bridge the input internet connection and the double port network card, plus the internet connection + wireless network. And you got yourself a home network!

Seriously, all these questions are already answered in the big thread! Just read it... But for your sake, and the 2l energy drinks I have in me, I'm gonna answer. There are problems with Xpenology or work well? It works fine for me. Some obviously hardware-locked features are of course not working, but they are mostly related to stuff you wouldn't even use the way Synology implemented it. E.g. the BIOS settings. How do I install it? (I can do it with usb or do I buy a cd player?) The threads describe it pretty well. You'll need a small USB drive, 256MB+ preferred, burn the boot disk on it, plug it in on the motherboard USB slot, and commence with the install as described. The Italian language is available? Yes it has. You can set language for the whole system, or for a given user. You also have to separately set the notification language, as it is global. Where can I find a comprehensive and easy? Comprehensive and easy what? Girl? I suppose the red-light house on the edge of the town would supply those After installing it, I can handle HP N54L (without monitor) directly from the PC that has Windows 7 Professional 64bit? Yes. DSM is a web interface oriented OS, every management is done on the UI. If you add a monitor, all you get is shell access. Which comes useful sometimes, but you can usually do everything on the web interface. Also it is OS independent. As long as it has a web browser that can access the web server (e.g. same network, or your NAS is globally available), you can even manage it from your fridge/oven/microwave. Thank you fonix232, you are ver kind To burn the boot disk on usb drive, can I use the program "unetbootin"? Before you start the installation of Xpenology with the usb drive, go into the BIOS, can you tell me the combination of buttons, please? (sorry for these trivial questions, but I am not expert) When I inserted the usb drive, to install everything in Italian there are flags to activate, or are there shortcuts to activate it? where you wrote "Where can I find a comprehensive and easy? Comprehensive and easy what? Girl? I suppose the red-light house on the edge of the town would supply Those ", google translator, when I wrote before, he missed a word Was wondering if there was a simple guide to follow the installation without any problems. My problem is that HP N54L not I put it online, it will be connected with the PC via a network cable only. ( in the pc add a Gigabit PCI to communicate with N54L ) . Will I be able to use N54L anyway without a monitor, although N54L does not go online? Which stable version of xpenology to install on N54L ? Again,instead of asking all these trivial questions, read the damn threads! Every information you need is 5-10 clicks and about 15 minutes worth of reading away. The USB boot drive burning is detailed in the installation instructions. The BIOS button is on the screen, you'll need one for the install any way. Plus to set the BIOS up. Or you can use the handbook found in the package of your server. There is only one guide, and it is as easy and comprehensive as it gets. You just have to follow the instructions. I don't think direct connection to a PC would work. Why don't you connect it to your router, and have it available on the local network? It would be just as simple. And yes, it will be okay. All you need to manage a Synology DSM NAS is a device in the same network loop with browsing capabilities. But then let me question, what is the point of the NAS? No online connection means it is not a download server, so basically 90% of the functionality is gone. It is not a local NAS, because it is only connected to one device, and such, all the features that will be available is shared volumes and access to a separate computer, but for that an external hard drive (or drives), or even an eSATA cage would be easier and more simple to set up.

Jumbo frames most definitely decrease throughput, just checked. Setting even 2000 for MTU will decrease speed to 100Mbps.

Seriously, all these questions are already answered in the big thread! Just read it... But for your sake, and the 2l energy drinks I have in me, I'm gonna answer. There are problems with Xpenology or work well? It works fine for me. Some obviously hardware-locked features are of course not working, but they are mostly related to stuff you wouldn't even use the way Synology implemented it. E.g. the BIOS settings. How do I install it? (I can do it with usb or do I buy a cd player?) The threads describe it pretty well. You'll need a small USB drive, 256MB+ preferred, burn the boot disk on it, plug it in on the motherboard USB slot, and commence with the install as described. The Italian language is available? Yes it has. You can set language for the whole system, or for a given user. You also have to separately set the notification language, as it is global. Where can I find a comprehensive and easy? Comprehensive and easy what? Girl? I suppose the red-light house on the edge of the town would supply those After installing it, I can handle HP N54L (without monitor) directly from the PC that has Windows 7 Professional 64bit? Yes. DSM is a web interface oriented OS, every management is done on the UI. If you add a monitor, all you get is shell access. Which comes useful sometimes, but you can usually do everything on the web interface. Also it is OS independent. As long as it has a web browser that can access the web server (e.g. same network, or your NAS is globally available), you can even manage it from your fridge/oven/microwave.

I highly doubt Synology has implemented full-disk encryption, as they would have to either have a designated OS disk, or implement encryption handling in BIOS. And that wouldn't be supported by our devices, especially the way Synology likes to do stuff. But I think volume encryption *should* be possible, even if you have to hack around for that. I did make a shared folder out of all volumes for root/admin only, so it should be achievable too.

If you would've checked more thoroughly, AAEON is actually a US-based company. For the IBASE board, it is Chinese, so easiest way would be importing it via DHGate/AliExpress.

Does your router support Gigabit? I used my N54L with a 100Mbit router before and that caused such limitations.

Extra packages (such as a working Git server), if NeXuS can solve it then continuous updates, plus the ability to install deb packages (if I got it right, 4.3 has dpkg built-in).

How about creating virtual devices to update? Then it would go through fine, and we wouldn't need to modify anything. I know it is a lot more work, and I'm just brainstorming here, but that's how good ideas are born

Yes, there are two partitions in RAID, one for the OS itself (2 or 5GB? Can't recall), and the remaining space behind that for the actual volume. But there are also a few extra partitions at the beginning, those are the synoboot ones. All it misses is an actual bootloader (e.g. GRUB) from the beginning. By my understanding, the only problem with that is that GRUB does not like the way Synology manages the hard drives, and this causes GRUB not to be able to boot the OS (if I get it right, the problem is that all the synoboot parts are on every disk, and GRUB can't decide which one to boot, or something like that?)

I had a really similar problem, with an apt-mirror binary I was trying to use. First symlink level (from /volume1/@appstore/apt-mirror/bin/apt-mirror to /bin/mirror), no other files that are used were linked, and I still got this message. Do we have the updater source code? If yes, we can trace the error a bit further, but it seems to be that it fails to get the synoboot partitions (maybe it is trying to do so from a hard drive, and thus it fails?). Does /dev/synoboot2 exist? Maybe we can route the initial boot USB to /dev/synoboot* somehow? Or, better idea. Why not make actual bootable hard drives? I'm tired that we need a plus boot USB, maybe it could be hacked around so that we get an actual Synology setup?

Plex performance on Synology will be a lot different than on a simple Linux install, I think you have to account about +-20-25% performance difference (and the -25% is more likely).

I believe Plex already uses the GPU if its present for transcoding, and such it would be a good idea to include a graphics card. But let's see about that later. I don't know where you heard it, but Synology and XPEnology does spin the disks down. There are specific cases, e.g. the HP N54L, where it won't do so that easily, but it can be done. I'll take your 400-ish budget as $400 +- $50. From that, you can get an entry- or mid-range i3/i5 Haswell mobo with RAM and CPU, and maybe even a graphics card dumped in there. Given that you gave no more specifics, e.g. networking, I'll list some stuff: - AAEON EMB-QM87A Great motherboard, though not so well known brand. Double network stack, good if you want to do some firewall or just bridge them to achieve 2Gbps. 6 SATA ports, 4 of them SATA3; USB3 6x, and a lot of COM ports inside as a bonus. Price is not out yet, but it is supposed to be cheap (sub-$150). It includes an i5 or i3, depending on your selection, but you will need a CPU cooler! This would be my choice for HTPC. - IBASE MI980 Another good competitor. Pluses are that it has two mPCIE sockets (for WLAN or mSATA), standing memory, and support for i7 CPUs. Also two different chipset version are released, ether Q87 or H87. Negative is that it uses more power, and has no HDMI ports. Both LAN controllers are Intel, unlike the AAEON. - Kotron KTQ87/mITX Seems to be good, but has a few negatives. Only one mPCIE port, only 5 SATA (but all of them are SATA3), but tons of USB, and LGA1150 instead of BGA1634. - BCM MX87QD The usual. 4 SATA3 ports, no HDMI but there's DisplayPort, two mPCIE (one full size for mSATA, one half-size). Double network stack, both are Intel. - MSI Z87I If you want something with a bigger name but same budget, the Z87I is perfect. Only 4, but SATA3 ports, double Realtek network, HDMI supports 3K displays, and I could go on. All of this for $140. - Asus Z87I Deluxe Probably my favourite from the whole collection, apart from the AAEON. Great quality, 6 SATA3 headers, compact, well designed. But most probably pricy. You can either try Hyper-V with a Win Server 2012 install + XPEnology running virtualized (actually you can assign one of the Eth ports to it as-is. Then you can mount the XPE shares on Win directly, and have both of them running, while having an HTPC. But Hyper-V, again, requires some power, something that a G1610 won't be able to provide. Or you can try installing X11 and compiling Gnome Shell directly, that *should* work but nobody tried that as far as I know. It would be most definitely a fun project! You won't lose your data. Either you can use RAID (last, big partitions of all drives will be the one you want to fix if it craps itself), or Synology's own implementation, or a simple volume. Each of them has their advantage, but I'd go with something like RAID5/6 or maybe 10. You don't need a lockable USB drive, but a motherboard with CMOS lock. The USB key won't get corrupted, at least not easily - all you have to do is to pull it during install, and done. I'd also suggest a more powerful CPU for either the Hyper-V or the transcoding goals. The G1610 might not cut it.

You have to compile Python 2.7.7 from source. I had a really similar problem, namely the 3.3 build on the IPKG servers was not built with --enable-ipv6. This resulted in a slight issue that none of the socket-enabled apps would run, but die. Only solution was a simple recompile (get source tarball, extract, run ./configure, make, make install, replace python bin symlinks to the new binary). You'll also need the build tools (make, gcc, autoconf, and others).

Primary disk? For what reason?

usbshare1 is completely normal. If you edit synoinfo.cfg and find the internal port (I suppose you use that for the boot disk), you can set it to 0 and thus disabling the detection of that device, but I don't think it would be necessary. And actually if you don't specifically share the device, it should not be visible at all. You install it just like on any other platform. It is described in GREAT detail in at least five different threads, not including the release threads of different ports. But the steps are really easy: burn boot USB, boot device from USB, start Synology Assisstant, install downloaded PAT file (before installing remove boot USB, then before restart plug it back), be happy. The first install seems scary but it is so easy that even a half-trained monkey can do it. Just don't be afraid, as long as you don't have sensitive data on the hard drive (which you shouldn't - first install is like the winner in ABBA's song, it takes it all). Just play around, you cannot render it into an unusable state, worst case you have to format the hard drive.

Then how come, that you in July wrote: So, is there or is there not a BIOS reset problem with the N54L and the hacked BIOS Back in July I was using a different server It was a HP MediaServer M8000n, using an Asus-made motherboard with AMI BIOS. Our motherboard with the N54L is a Gigabyte motherboard with dual BIOS, meaning if the primary CMOS is corrupted, the backup is loaded. But any time you save a setting, and it is correct, it gets saved into the secondary CMOS, and is loaded when the primary is corrupted by DSM. Sorry, I had to change my signature when I switched servers, and thus that post kind of lost its meaning. I will correct it in a moment. So for further note: I got my Synology server in the beginning of September, any post before this is irrelevant to the ProLiant Microserver line.

Nice setup! eSATA multiplier only works with the modified BIOS, you have to enable certain settings (hot swap and full SATA speed) to make it work though. What I don't understand is, where do you want to place the extra 4 hard drives? Also please post the exact parts you're going to use (4x2.5" cage, and USB3+SATA3 card), as I want a really similar setup, quite soon.