Physical drive limits of an emulated Synology machine?
Just out of curiosity if you wanted to go all out and create a Frankenstein's NAS based on XPEnology, is there any physical limitations as to how many disks you could add to a system? Judging by the real steel hardware there are some limits as to how many expansion chassis can be linked and that physically limits your theoretical number of drives, but is this limitation also hard-coded in the software?
Say you used one, or even multiple raid cards with expanders, maybe also mixed those with a
My loader is now complete. Just updating post and uploading and it will be available late tonight...
To tease a little bit on topic.... There are now 3 different ways to set maxdisks in my loader, from grub bootloader, from grub.cfg or from my configtool. Let's see how it is done.
NOTE: Setting maxdisks should only be done after DSM has been installed. This is because DSM can only install it's OS on a maximum of 12 disks (usuall the first 12 disks). This is hard set i
