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Hello, First, Sorry about my English. I did install the Xpenology DSM 6.2 version on my Qnap TS-251. Of course, Native install. Not qnap virtualization station. Anyone ever installed Xpenology like this? and Did you have same problem? Last month, I took the TS-251 from my drawer. Because, The QTS (Qnap system) seemed to do periodic indexing on the HDD...some noise of HDD... and I used the Synology NAS in my company. So, I prefer the Synology DSM. So, I installed Xpenology on my TS-251.(DSM version 6.2 DS918+) Yes, It's not difficult. Perfect instructions is in this forum. As you know, NAS is the computer. So When TS-251 is boot start, Just press F2 key to enter BIOS setup. I could changed the boot sequence in here. So, I could run the file required for xpenology installation on USB and Installation is complete without some problem. Even If I installed xpenology, I can re-initialized the Installation of QTS. However, I have two big problems. 1. Power on again and again.... I can change the Auto Power on/off setting in Qnap Bios and xpenology DSM setting page. I've disable Auto Power on. But, When I turn off the power (Power Off in DSM), it turns on again immediately. Again and again. Maybe This problem seems to apply to all xpenology users. 2. Fan Noisy. Yes, It's Fan Speed problem. As you know, normal NAS reduces the fan speed when booting for the first time. Therefore, it quickly becomes quiet. However, Native xpenology on Qnap doesn't seem to have Fan Speed control. - I've changed all settings (BIOS and DSM setting), And it does not decrease the fan speed. - I even installed "lm-sensors" on ssh, but it doesn't recognize the 'Controller' at all. (I know The role of the 'Controller' monitors the CPU temperature and controls the FAN or LED lights.) - Maybe, the driver(?) Prepared in synology does not work, or Qnap's controller is not famous, so it is not supported by Linux packages such as lm-sensors. For about a month, with the help of Google, I fell into a Linux world that I didn't know. Some experts direct compile proper kernel(?) driver(?)...But I can't. 😭 I can't solve these two problems, so I consider about going back to QTS now. Does anyone have Xpenology installed and used your Qnap? and resolved fan and power problem? Thank you~!

I built my first ever XPenology and I am so far very happy with it. i had some DDR3 memory left over from previous projects so I chose the the around the RAM to save some money. i went for the cheapest MoBo I could buy on a H110 chipset that would accommodate the Intel Celeron G3930. i competed the build with a OEM Corsair PSU of 350W and a CM elite 342 case that I chose due to the 5 internal bays for 3.5” disks. The installation with Jun’s loader was straight forward, I only had 1 problem when I needed to re-write the image on the USB stick where I would get an error using the win32 diskImager. I solved this by CLI on Windows and resetting the USB stick partitions. The installation of DSM 3615 was also uneventful and I used 3 old disks 8 had laying around. The performance is fast on the DSM MMI over Mozilla browser and so far most functionality works the same as with my synology boxes. Specifically the power management scheduler works fine to switch of and power on the XPenology. However the fans control is not working from the DSM, I had to tune the fans in the bios and am thinking to further reduce the rpm and noise with some voltage low noise adaptors. Transfer speeds are great from my PC over 1GbE where I saturate the NIC at 112 MB/s both read and write in both directions. The PC has SATA3 SSDs. Transfer speeds directly between XPenology and DS214 (via mapped remote folder) are averaging 95 MB/s for both directions read and write. This may sound quite strange but Synology fastest transfers are over SMB rather than using the RSYNC protocol that is native to the Linux district they are using for DSM. So I am not overall surprised that I get faster transfers over the PC with SMB mapped network drives. My next step/project is to go to either 4xGbE SMB multichannel in my network (both XPenology and PCs) or to go directly to 10/5/2.5 GbE with purchasing Asus aquantia based NICs for the PC, Netgear 10/5/2.5 GbE switch and a 10 GbE PCIe card for theXPenology.