Turbine-7 Posted February 14, 2018 Share #1 Posted February 14, 2018 I'm running DSM 6 (6.1 I think) on my HP N54L, 3 x 4TB drives using SHR. If I buy a Gen10 microserver, is it as simple as putting in the usb boot drive, put the hard disks in the same order and everything will be as it was? I read this was the case with N54L -> Gen8, but the Gen8 is now out of stock everywhere. I need a microserver due to the location, there's not room for a tower server. Will there be a noticeable performance upgrade over the N54L? I'm just running Plex and Synology SS. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbine-7 Posted February 14, 2018 Author Share #2 Posted February 14, 2018 Just checked, it's not 6.1, I'm on 6.0.2-8451. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simono5 Posted March 6, 2019 Share #3 Posted March 6, 2019 My 54l has just gone pop and I'd like to know the answer to this too. Did you have any luck @Turbine-7? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbine-7 Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share #4 Posted March 8, 2019 No, sorry. I still have the N54L. Decided against the Gen10 and was looking at Gen8’s on ebay, but then moved house and now have room for a bigger server but don’t know what to get! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobur Posted March 10, 2019 Share #5 Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) Why did you decide against the gen10? Someone mentioned here that the Dell poweredge T20/T30 hardware is fully supported by DSM. I think they only have 4 disk bays though. Edited March 10, 2019 by Bobur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simono5 Posted March 10, 2019 Share #6 Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) I've got a Gen10 on order. Read enough on here to see that people have it running DSM. Arrives tomorrow so will post how I go. I did look at second hand Gen8 but the prices on ebay were ridiculous. Edited March 10, 2019 by simono5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simono5 Posted March 11, 2019 Share #7 Posted March 11, 2019 For anyone thats interested. The migration from 54L to Gen10 was straight forward. 1. Create new boot image on new USB (Jun 1.03b - DS3617xs) 2. Transfer drives from 54L to Gen10 (same order as in 54L) 3. Insert boot USB into motherboard 4. Change BIOS to boot from USB and "UEFI with CSM module" = DISABLED and "Boot Mode" = Legacy only 5. Boot Gen10 and use Synology Assistant to find NAS 6. Was prompted to Migrate NAS, I used PAT file DSM_DS3617xs_23739.pat 7. Create admin account and set-up Gen10 as needed Not too concerned that I'm not running very latest DSM, more relieved the upgrade worked without a hitch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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