sastusbulbas Posted October 4, 2016 Share #1 Posted October 4, 2016 Hi all, as per title, new member. Hoping for a little help here, simply not very well off financially, and really wanting to try a Synology based NAS before committing to such an item retail, I can probably afford a two bay 215J at some point but would rather have something I could expand on with old computer hardware than be stuck to just two drives. What I want to eventually have is 2 to 4 4tb drives in a NAS so the whole family can access all the homes music/movies/photo's and an other relevant sharable data. I have a handful of old hardware, two of the home's PC's are LGA 775 and it's the weakest of those I would like to use for a NAS. But after browsing the site and a few google searches I am still not sure what is the best option? Below is what I am hoping to convert into a NAS, but my 1st attempt at USB booting failed. Is there a more surefire way of getting xpenology to work on this old hardware? Asus P5QL-VM EPU LGA775 MicroATX motherboard Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E8500 Corsair Dominator GT 8500C5 4GB (2x2) 1066MHz DDR2 X2 Samsung F3 500GB hard drive Sata2 X2 Samsung F3 1TB hard drive Sata2 Kingston Data Traveler SE9 USB2 stick 16GB Silverstone TJ08B-E case or Fractal Core 1000 350w or 450w Corsair PSU DVD drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chege Posted October 4, 2016 Share #2 Posted October 4, 2016 IMO its not bad hardware to run xpenology. Im using older AMD CPU with 2gb ram and my nas is working 24/7 over 46 days without restart now. And im using it over a year without a problem. Im having installed plex serce on it, and many more packages. Hope it helps you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0fh Posted October 4, 2016 Share #3 Posted October 4, 2016 Should be okay. Lose the optical drive. It cannot be used and may actually make things worse. Buy a good power supply. I would probably buy at least a 450w with that older hardware. Better to have a little headroom. I am using an E6850 cpu in one server and an AMD Phenom X2 in another, so older hardware is fine. I do not run any hardware intensive apps on them, though. It all seems to work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berwhale Posted October 4, 2016 Share #4 Posted October 4, 2016 The E8500 is a 65W part, either of the 350W or 450W Corsair PSUs listed will be more than sufficient to run the system with 4 drives. Try reseting the BIOS to defaults before attempting to boot Xpenology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobsterUK Posted October 14, 2016 Share #5 Posted October 14, 2016 I have an Intel DG35EC mobo with an Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53 Ghz, 2x2GB 667mhz Kingston ram, 4x2 TB Seagate drives from on board sata controller, running off a 320 watt PSU. It's been running solidly for 18 months with 24/7 operation. Running Emby media server (which will perform on-the-fly transcoding), photostation, ds download, ds audio, couch potato, Sabnzbd, sickbeard. One thing I did have to do was to set BIOS, Boot, USB Mass Storage Emulation Type and changed the setting from "Auto" to "All Fixed Disc". Prior to that the box wouldn't boot. Hope this is useful Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbv3000 Posted October 17, 2016 Share #6 Posted October 17, 2016 several of my XPE units are 'older' mobos, dual core amd e350 etc but these are working fine for 1-2 years since setup I would try a test build before you 'go big'; reset bios disable serial, parallel, audio etc set sata to ahci connect a single drive set bios to your usb device to boot (not UEFI) and disable other boot devices boot xpe, check networking, install dsm, create volume and test for a few days, including any packages then add remaining drives, delete test volume and create your desired disk group/volume Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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