soundsticks Posted February 23, 2015 Share #1 Posted February 23, 2015 I'm new to XPEnology. I'm planning use my N54L for NAS, may I know which method you prefer to install on USB or VM ESXI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CtrlAltDel Posted February 23, 2015 Share #2 Posted February 23, 2015 If you're new to Xpenology and you don't need to run virtual machines then it's probably best to go with the USB option. The N54L isn't really going to give you the best performance for virtualisation in a production environment with moderate activity. Both methods are well supported on the N54L apart from the known issues listed for the current 5.1 EXPEnoboot if you go the virtual route. You can find tutorials for both methods on the xpenology.nl website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mervincm Posted February 23, 2015 Share #3 Posted February 23, 2015 baremetal install (USB) gives you easy access to smart data and all of you HDD ports, It's a great option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundsticks Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share #4 Posted February 23, 2015 How is the RAID performance? Some people said not really good on RAID and better do a backup every month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPEH Posted February 23, 2015 Share #5 Posted February 23, 2015 How is the RAID performance? Some people said not really good on RAID and better do a backup every month. RAID performance, RAID drive tolerance and Backup have completely different purpose and should not be compared, interchanged or even related. RAID is for drive redundancy and different levels can provide different performance. It is for drive fault tolerance and Its not a replacement for backup. You delete.corrupt some files and its deleted, corrupted on all the drives. Backup to another media/location is necessary if you value your data. Doesn't mater if you use single drive or supper redundant RAID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mervincm Posted February 23, 2015 Share #6 Posted February 23, 2015 RAID performance is fine, almost any system you will get your hands on will be limited by Ethernet( large files) or disk IO (small files) and not by your CPU doing RAID calculations. RAID is not about Backup, Backup is always required, RAID only sometimes is required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundsticks Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share #7 Posted February 24, 2015 May I know where can I get the tutorial installed XPEnology on USB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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