mXfored Posted April 25, 2015 Share #1 Posted April 25, 2015 (edited) Hello, using the search, mainly russion/frensh topics have been found related to nuc - iam not able to read them sorry. I am planning to run the the Synology build on my nuc i3 with an externa eSATA jbod raid and an internal SSD for the OS. UPDATE1: - I tried nanoboot https://app.box.com/XPEnoboot but it seems my ethernet card is failing to init.. AFAIR nucs using an e1000e - but it has to be a quiet recent one. - booting up looked ok though, just cannot find the DSM using the assitent ( due to the offline eth0 adapter ) - Booting from USB is not trivial with NUC due to all the issue. My trick is using 2 USB sticks, this way both get recognized..using one..you cant even select one to boot (what intel did here is horrible..so fragile) - even with the latest bios. a) So my question is, if there is a more recent e1000e nanoboot image? b) what are the login credentials for the nanoboot image - maybe i can fix it myself? c) shall i try a USB2eth solution? Thanks! Edited May 3, 2015 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdm Posted April 28, 2015 Share #2 Posted April 28, 2015 Hi, is there a particular reason that you want to use a NUC with the Xpenology/DSM software? The thread you linked to clearly has the user running Xpenology/DSM on an HP N54L Microserver. He is using a NUC with XBMC (probably attached to a TV) to playback his media from the Xpenology server. There no inherent problem running Xpenology/DSM on the NUC, but the beauty of the DSM software is the storage management features. For example, if you were to attach an eSATA JBOD/RAID enclosure with 4 X 4TB HDD, it would be presented as single 16TB drive to the DSM software and any redunancy/recovery potential is lost at least through the DSM software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mXfored Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share #3 Posted May 3, 2015 Hello, Until now, i had a ubuntu installed on the nuc ( since debian had issues booting the time i tried it...due to the NUC being a PITA in those terms). I mounted the Zyxel using NFS and installed Plex on the nuc, and some minor stuff. But if you compare write speeds with native-nuc eSATA and zyxel...thats just awesome. 462MB/s read, 150MB/w with nuc .. while having arroudn 8MB/s on the zyxel (when running a raid1 on mdadm base ). Its a huge plus having nuc + esata running compare to nuc + seperate NAS. Now iam using a eSata attached RAID1 icybox with and additional internal SSD for the OS. I have a Zyxel 325v2, but i want to consolidate things. I even mixed up things, i dont have an i5 build in, but rather and i3. Havint this solution, i have a superior performance. Iam very familiar with proxmox and esxi, iam running huge infrastructures on those, but i think that is plain waste for the home-usage case. Its wasting performance ( esp. IO wise ) for the solution. - I tried nanoboot https://app.box.com/XPEnoboot but it seems my ethernet card is failing to init.. AFAIR nucs using an e1000e - but it has to be a quiet recent one. - booting up looked ok though, just cannot find the DSM using the assitent ( due to the offline eth0 adapter ) - Booting from USB is not trivial with NUC due to all the issue. My trick is using 2 USB sticks, this way both get recognized..using one..you cant even select one to boot (what intel did here is horrible..so fragile) - even with the latest bios. a) So my question is, if there is a more recent e1000e nanoboot image? b) what are the login credentials for the nanoboot image - maybe i can fix it myself? c) shall i try a USB2eth solution? Your questions/additions: Iam very pleased with the "hidden raid1" feature using the icybox. Both drives can be read as single drives on failures without issues - most of the NAS raids fail hard on this, making nas-hardware failure a plain nightmare. I dont need, by all means, a transparent Raid on the NAS OS. To be honest, i am pick Synology just due the Photo Station - anything else offered is convenient, but not needed. I can setup AFP / Timemachine / btsync myself in pretty much no time I have 15 years of linux knowledge and hope to get this running with some help. Hopefully! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor Posted May 3, 2015 Share #4 Posted May 3, 2015 Did you try with XPEnoboot 5.1-5022.3 ? viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5026 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbarb Posted January 3, 2016 Share #5 Posted January 3, 2016 @mXfored You still there ? I am thinking of trying xpenology. I was curious about your statements : I am very pleased with the "hidden raid1" feature using the icybox. Both drives can be read as single drives on failures without issues - most of the NAS raids fail hard on this, making nas-hardware failure a plain nightmare. I dont need, by all means, a transparent Raid on the NAS OS. >>For Icybox : which one are you using ? >>For "Both drives can be read as single drives on failures without issues - most of the NAS raids fail hard on this" What do you mean by that ? >>For : I don't need, by all means, a transparent Raid on the NAS OS What do you mean . . . transparent Raid ? You are using the "Large" raid function on your Icybox ? If you have a minute I would be interested in your answers. Thanks, Kent San Francisco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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