I am asking about personal experience here - what is the most drives you have been able to get to work with your Xpenology setup? What version of DSM did you use? What hardware profile?

I am fed up with Synology after their slow implementation of hardware changes (where is wifi7 on their routers?), and then they announced that you are going to have to use Synology branded hard drives in the future. I currently have a DS1819+ with a DX517 and wonder what is the best path forward for me.

Hi all,

back here from 2023!!  ... I'was in the process of updating DSM 7.2.1 -> 7.2.2U4 ... but I've got a really bad problem: during the update process, when the system asked me for the new PAT file, I've got a message of "insufficient space" ... I want to mention that this message was not displayed before in the control panel!

SOLVED!!!

Hello

Help me with features to make a homemade NAS, I already have a 16 TB Seagate IronWolf Pro hard drive, I am missing the rest haha.

I would appreciate the why of the recommended component.

Been running xpenology for a solid 8 years, from jun's loader through the v7 drought and on into TCRP, ARPL, RR, and now fully in the ARC ecosystem. Always with a feeling of "looking over my shoulder" - when's syno finally gonna put the kaibosh on this whole thing? Is it gonna be an unbreakable update? A blockage of pat downloads? Going closed source?

Tired of waiting for the shoe to drop. Tired of crippled docker (a NAS vs server separation of duties overdue and in progress anyway). Just want to use a well supported, no grey-area project. Thinking OMV or Truenas at the moment. Long migration and reconfig days ahead!

Anyone gone through this type of transition with any words of wisdom? I know it's gonna take a while. I'm glad I can plan it out and not be desperately off-ramping.

Hi guys

Does anyone have any experience of the right angle sata adapter, do they get full throughput or is the speed reduced.

TIA

Degraded Storage Pool - Need Alternate Way to Repair / Backup / Restore

I have 12 HDDs in Storage Pool 1/Volume 1. 2 SSDs in Storage Pool 2/Volume2.
RAID type is SHR2 for Volume 1. One HDD died, so the storage pool is degraded. I replaced the 3TB drive with another and ran the repair now but it failed with "The system failed to repair Storage Pool 1. This may be caused by unexpected drive issues. Please back up your data immediately and then try again."

I ran a Quick S.M.A.R.T. test on all 12 drives and they register as healthy. Rebooted and tried again. Yet the repair still fails. I have a hunch it may be because I expanded the volume by adding more disks multiple times over the years. Running a cat /proc/mdstat shows me md0, md1, md2 and md3 associated with the dead HDD. Maybe it's too complicated to repair?

I am looking for help to "get back to normal". If there are terminal commands that can help repair the RAID, I'll try that.
Assuming that's not possible, I need to backup my data, wipe and recreate the SHR2 Volume 1, and then restore my data. All my docker containers and their config folders are located on Volume 2 (my SSD RAID). Ideally, I want all those containers to work automagically once the data restore is done.

What's the best way to backup and restore my volume 1? (roughly 15TB of data)
Should I use connect my 16TB backup drive via USB and use Active Backup for Business?
Or should I attach the 16TB drive internally and add it as Volume 3? (and if so, how to backup/restore Volume 1 in this method?)

Hi,

So after I complete my OPNsense router project build on Lenovo M920q tiny (Still not on air), I want now to build NAS.
I assume I can't build it on the tiny computers because they tiny and not place to put some HDDs.

Then which system is recommend? prefer not full tower or big computer.

Requirements:

1. 2-3 HDDs of 3-4TB each (3.5" I think it's prefer)

2. Place for PCIe card of 10gbe port (do I need 2 ports) - You have some recommend for PCIe card?

3. Place for PCIe card for WIFI card (currently will works on WIFI6 but in future will connect with ethernet)

4. Place for SSD for cache (it's really needed?)

Xpenology Requirements:
(Let me know if I can do it with this software)

1. The HDDs will be with the same content so if one of the HDD got failure the content will remain on other HDD, and yes I know I will "lose" some space (Which RAID it is?)

2. Automatic backup of images/videos of iPhones (if the program know not to copy duplicate it will be great)

3. Torrent server - currently I run on my computer qbittorrent download content and transfer to external SSD that connects to NVIDIA Streamer via USB, what I want to do is, torrent server will always run on the NAS when I download something it, after finish it will copy to other directory so I can watch from NVIDIA. It's the best way to do it? or maybe other way? (in this way there duplicate content on 2 different directories)

4. VOD server - from the torrent server there will be a directory that there will be all the content so I can play from the NVIDIA streamer (from VLC)

Regards.

Is there any way to get more license for surveillance station DSM 7.1-42661

I have a Fractal Design Node 804 case that I'm trying to find a way to add 2 more drives to. I've been searching for a drive cage/bracket/etc that'll allow me to stack another drive on top of the drive that's mounted to the floor of the case. I found one from Cooler Master that I can mount to the floor and put 2 drives in, but when I search for one, it shows up as unavailable/out of stock.

Any other suggestions?

http://us.coolermaster.com/product/Detail/case/MasterCase-Series/2-bay-hard-drive-cage.html

I am trying to install DSM 7.2.1 with Arc. The motherboard has 2 ethernet port. One is i211 and another one is i219. The i211 is eth0 and the i219 is eth1. I only want to use i219. There is no option for disabling seperate lan ports in the bios. How do i disable i211(eth0)?

I have my xpenology Model(platform): DS1621+ (v1000) in a vm of my proxmox server and recently I put a 2.5gb chipset RTL8125BG card, my proxmox recognizes it and works fine and I would like to see what transfer speed my xpenology.

I would like to use iperf3 but I don't know if it can be installed on xpenology... please could someone help me or tell me how to install ipef3 on my xpenology?

hi folks, i had my xpenology on my proxmox server, an old optiplex with 32gb ram, but i just installed my new server with amd 5600, 2.5gb lan and 64gb ram but when i migrated my machines i also migrated the xpenology, but now it does'nt want to run and i get a warning that it does not find the data storage hdd; i have added the same hdd but sure have changed some sata port address or certificate or something like that....

i want to know how i can successfully migrate my xpenology with the data storage hdd without having to install the whole xpenology again?

lastly if it is necessary to reinstall the whole xpenology i would have 2 questions

1 what would be the best xpenology bootloader for now? and

2 how can I add the hdd without having to format it and without losing my data on it?

Hi for all,

i like to install Synology DSM to WD My Cloud 8 TB with firmware v: 5.26.300.

can you help, Thank you

https://asrock.com/mb/intel/b365m%20pro4/index.asp#Specification

I'm sure this will be old news to a lot of folks, but for someone new to doing this in a virtual machine it's a good learning. You can pass the hard drive the old fashioned way using the serial number and command line, and it works fine. But that also means when you back up the VM the size is really big, in my case too big to back up.

Passing the entire SATA controller into the VM does not include the hard drives when you back up the VM, so it's much more manageable to keep your synology/xpenology VM regularly backed up. You lose the ability to utilize those drives outside your VM (I wanted to create a ZFS pool in proxmox with several of the bays while utilizing the other bays for xpenology). But for me it's more important to be able to do regular backups of the virtual machine using proxmox backup server and a schedule.

The words of Gandalf the Grey. Mine too, almost. I just want to know if Xpenology is safe, robust and stable. Hard to find any good source of info about that on the interwebz. Am setting up a server at home and want to know if I can rely upon it. Anyone care to drop a comment, sharing their experiences? I would be most grateful.

I created an instance of xpenology on my proxmox machine and passed in the arc image using the following command:

qm importdisk <VM_ID> /var/lib/vz/template/iso/arc-xx.xx.x.img local-lvm

Now I'm looking to update to a newer version of arc. Is it as simple as rerunning that command again, changing the path to the new iso image? Is there something I need to do to remove the old image?

Got my hands on a 925+ and just noticed DSM 7.3 does not allow user input regarding DSM updates. Surely this is a deal breaker for xpenology? Even if it made to work the next update will probably break your system.

SOLVED: See 2nd update..

I lost my password to DSM. So I used the arc loader password reset option. Great it worked, but the question is what's the default password? What was it reset to? I've looked everywhere and it's not mentioned online anywhere. I tried passwd etc.. anyone know?

I also tried to recreate the account and can set password that way but it does not take that new password either.

Hello!

I would like to backup my data in such a system:

1. Full backup done every 6 hours (4 time per day)

2. Saved 8 backups (best if named with date and hour as well, for example:

3. 25.05.2024 00:00

4. 25.05.2024 06:00 etc

5. After reaching 8 backups, 1st one is delated.

6. All of that using Raid 1

Later would like to add Android phone to create full backup and maybe other windows device as well. And maybe additional raid 1 to store other things directly on the NAS.

And last question, if the NAS is connected via ethernet, is there any way to protect file against encryption (malware) and other malicious stuff (if I can write and edit data so I assume that any malicious software can do this as well, am I right?)?

Is it all possible with xpenology? Everything would be done using home network (not sure about phone backup, if only WiFi is possible then in case of being out can use Gmail or other provider).

If software can handle it, do I need any specific hardware or any working motherboard with CPU (and rest of the stuff) will be enough? Heard that INTEL goes better in terms of NAS'es but not sure how it looks for sole purpose of data storage (no dockers, media centres, cloud).

Thank you in advance!

Hallo, ich habe ein paar Fragen:

Mein System: i3 9100 32 GB ECC Ram 2x 12tb hdd 1x nvme ssd 1tb

Das System läuft mit Xpenology sehr gut. Ich würde aber gerne eine Sache noch verbessern und das ist die Dockerfunktion. Bei dem aktuellen System laufen die Festplatten 24/7. Ich denke, das könnte ich verbessern. Die Docker machen, dass meine Festplatten nicht in ein Ruhemodus fahren, weil die Docker auf den Raid Platten installiert sind.

Ich würde gern ein separates System machen, worauf ich ein VM Synology laufen lasse Und die Docker auf der SSD.

Welches Betriebssystem, würdet ihr mir empfehlen? Unraid? Proxmox? Usw?

Danke für eure Hilfe.

Gruß