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MaZeeT

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  1. A Harddrive take the most power when it spin up from begin turned off. Depending on your settings and size of your power supply. You might draw to much power when all the harddrives try to spin up at the same time. I believe I have read somewhere that you are offset the spin-up of each drive, but I do not know how.

     

    It might explain why it will not boot up when all harddrives are plugged in.

  2. if you leave the disk in... it should not change anything... if you unplug the USB on the move, it might not boot the right way, so you might have to hook a monitor up to the box at the new location, or leave the USB stick in..

     

    When it connect to the new network, than watch out a change of the IP address which properly will change...

     

    That should cover most of the problem you might face, The rest should be troubles with the network settings on the new location...

     

    Happy moving the system =)

  3. Hey Hidroela..

     

    it is because of your raid settings.. Raid 1 is a mirror of the drives, so you will get the space of the smallest of the two drives which is 1TB... since it is a mirror you will get Volume of 1TB with 1TB backup from your 3TB drive and 2TB lost space.. If I remember right you will be able to map the remaining 2TB to a 2nd volume...

     

    I would suggest you make a Volume on the 3TB drive of 3TB and a second volume of 1TB on the 1TB drive..

     

    It all depend on what you want to do with the volume... If you aren't sure what the different raids do and the pros and cons. I will suggest you to read up on it..

    Synology have a good calculator if you want to try out different configurations.

    https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator

  4. My question, I saw a bios in DSM Software and it seems a regular AMI bios for mobo, someone over there do you know how it works a real synology without any DSM installed on it?

    There is a sort of flash disk on real synology hardware where is installed a tiny OS to boot and show web installation server?

    My insane mind start to think about a bios modification in a way to mimic a real synology hardware, if this should work we can midify bios and we could avoid the use of bootloader, but i dont know how works a real synology hardware.

     

    What I have read on this forum over the last half year. Suggest that a real synology also operate with a "bootloader", which is on a storage unit. I even think that the storage unit is connected with some kind of USB connection since I recall reading that you can exclude your bootloader USB by modifying your boot-files to exclude your own USB device, so it doesn't show in DSM just like a real synology. - viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5605

     

    Why you would prefer to use a bios-mod, which is more risky for your hardware than a bootloader is beyond my understanding.

  5. Hello Iruindegi.

     

    It is possible to plug your USB Harddrive into your xpenology system.. In DSM you will have to use "file station" to go to your USB harddrive and than copy the files to the destination you want..

     

    If you can't find your Hard drive in the left side (it is a Subfolder) than you will have to search for a tweak to your bios/system

    (I found my in the bios but I am running a different setup)

  6. I am running 4x Red 4TB drives in a SHR-1 array.. One of the drives has started to report some I/O errors, and Western digital has confirmed that they will replace the drive...

     

    Now I would like to ask if I will be able to take the broken drive out and mirror it to the replacement drive and put it into the NAS without rebuilding the array ?

     

    I would like to skip 2 days of rebuilding the array :shock:

  7. coalfield thank you for sharing your findings.

     

    But to make a fair comparison you need to compare Raid5 with SHR-1 (1disk redundancy) and/or Raid6 with SHR-2 (2disk redundancy)...

     

    If you got the time to test SHR-1 and/or Raid6, you will be able to make a comparison of SHR vs RAID.. If you do please report back your findings =)...

    To be honest I am expecting SHR-1 and Raid5 to be nearly identical..

     

    MaZeeT

  8. Heat can be an issue .. I have overclocked i5 2500k which runs hot, and I was finding occasional network droputs etc. I finally figured out the heat was spreading around and when the motherboard NIC got hot enough it would cut out. fairly randomly. It was solved when I got better case ventilation. Not obvious at all.

    G1610T

     

    The board comes with the CPU under a passive heatsink and I do not overclock the CPU.. Synology report a temp of 40-42°C so I do not think it is heat... I do have the only fan at the motherboard room in a exhaust configuration, so might be worth it to change it to a intake fan...

     

    Thanks for your input :smile:

  9. i had similar issues ..

     

    the solution was the ram.. well solution and problem..

     

    fix... new ram

     

    now i haven't had a single issues..

     

    That will be worth a try.. Got a 3 year old laptop I can steal the RAM from for testing.. Thanks a lot for the input.. :smile:

  10. When I loss access to my NAS, all of my transfer stops... direct copy or encoding to the NAS do not matter, the connection is lost...

     

    I run the 4 drives in SHR-1 which is more or less raid5

     

    Sadly I have not had much time to test the SSH stuff today since my router broke when I started testing. :sad:

  11. Do you have access to DSM console still or does that hang too? If so, login as root and check DMESG for any errors.

     

    I have an issue with the NIC hanging on my Asrock c2750d4i.

     

    I usually run the following command to see it: dmesg -T | tail -100 | more

     

    I am kind of a rookie to linux based systems.. but I have not tried to access the NAS by SSH'ing if you mean that with DSM console.. I will try to test it, but I do not think I will get access since I can not access it an other way... I will be back with my results.. Thanks a lot of the input =)

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    Hello!

    I have the same issue!!

    Have you solved your problem?

    Thank you,

    Adrian

    I have not solved the problem yet... I will let you know if I do =)

  12. Hey..

     

    When I am transferring data like a season of a serie to my NAS from my desktop it freeze up and need to be rebooted on the case...

    I loss connection to every and will not reconnect before the NAS has been reset... I can't access the web-gui, transmission or shared folders...

     

    I hope you will be able to help me troubleshoot this error so I can get a great working system =)

     

    I have google around which suggest a fault power supply or hard drive.. But I will love to get inputs from my fellow XPEnology users.

     

    My system (bare-metal)

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    DSM-Version: DSM 5.1-5022 Update 5

    Motherboard: Asrock Q1900-ITX

    RAM: Corsair Value DDR3 2x4GB

    Power Supply: 430 Watt Corsair CX430M

    Harddrives: 4x WD Red WD40EFRX 4TB

    Extra: A PCIe card with 4 sata ports (Will have to look up the model)

  13. Personal I am a big fan of the "Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX" motherboard.. It should be using 10watts if I remember correctly... got 4 sata ports so you could add the drives you need... It got a mini-PCIe slot for a wifi-card, so you can boardcast a network in the car.. and it comes in 2 models... Normal power supply or a DC-power-supply (which could be easy to power in a car)..

     

    http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900-ITX/

    http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900DC-ITX/

  14. I salvaged a 4-lane PCI-E raid-card at my work, which I have tryed in my bare-metal setup with the Q1900-ITX motherboard...

    I where able to use all 4 sata ports on the motherboard AND the 4 sata ports on the raid card for a total of 8 working sata ports...

    I only had to mod the 1-lane PCI-E slot, by opening the end with a drill..

     

    pics of the motherboard with the installed raidcard : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/151 ... d4sata.jpg

    pics of the modded PCI-E slot : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/151 ... aneMod.jpg

     

    Very nice !!!

     

    Thanks for your experience! :grin:

     

    im unsing this card http://www.amazon.co.uk/Syba-SATA-Controller-Profile-Brackets/dp/B00AZ9T3OU

     

    Your welcome =)

    How is that sata-card working for you ?... It looks like a cheap option for an extra 4 sata-slots which my father might need in the near future =)

  15. I salvaged a 4-lane PCI-E raid-card at my work, which I have tryed in my bare-metal setup with the Q1900-ITX motherboard...

    I where able to use all 4 sata ports on the motherboard AND the 4 sata ports on the raid card for a total of 8 working sata ports...

    I only had to mod the 1-lane PCI-E slot, by opening the end with a drill..

     

    pics of the motherboard with the installed raidcard : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/151 ... d4sata.jpg

    pics of the modded PCI-E slot : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/151 ... aneMod.jpg

  16. If I were you I would transfer your data to one of the new drives... build a SHR-1 with 3 of the drives... transfer your data on the new drive to your SHR-1 and expand the SHR-1 with the 4th disk...

    Since Raid 1 is a mirror you might be able to skip the transfer to a new drive and just use one of the mirror disk...

     

    there might be better ways to do this... But personal I would do it this way...

  17. Personal I use the program makeMKV..

    You can point it to the iso-file (without mounting the iso)...

    When makeMKV has read the disk/ISO it will list all the videos it can find (you can configure what it will show in the options), from the list you will be able to pick and choose languages on audio and subtitles...

     

    Edit: btw it is quick since it is a direct dump from disk/iso to the mkv container =)

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