N54L to Gen10 - Disk Swap?

[Turbine-7]

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.

[Turbine-7]

Just checked, it's not 6.1, I'm on 6.0.2-8451.

[simono5]

My 54l has just gone pop and I'd like to know the answer to this too.

 

Did you have any luck @Turbine-7?

[Turbine-7]

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!

[Bobur]

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

[simono5]

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

[simono5]

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.