HP Microserver+XPEnology

6: as far as I'm aware, yes. Bit of a pain that one really.

The op states he is looking at buying a new N54L. He will get 12 months warranty included and he can officially download the latest BIOS from HP without any issues.
 
Timber said:
Thank you for the responses. Really helpful. Sounds like it might be a smidgen louder than my existing Synology but I guess that's to be expected.

With regards your response on question 2, do you mean the drives aren't hibernating or that you find WOL isn't always working when a device is trying to access the N54L?
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To be blunt. You either pay £450 for a 4 bay synology and put up with niggles like hibernation ect.

Or you pay £100 for a 6 bay N54L and put up with it's niggles. When I've had hibernation problems it's always been the synology software.

I do suggest that up either put a quiet fan in yourself out of the £350 you saved
or like me you put rubber bungs in between the case and fan.
 
Thank you for the feedback again.

deuse said:
To be blunt. You either pay £450 for a 4 bay synology and put up with niggles like hibernation ect.

Or you pay £100 for a 6 bay N54L and put up with it's niggles. When I've had hibernation problems it's always been the synology software.

I do suggest that up either put a quiet fan in yourself out of the £350 you saved or like me you put rubber bungs in between the case and fan.
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I understand that and just had some questions to try and understand the compromises a bit more. I suspect the noise levels are probably fine but until I got one in front of me wouldn't know for sure. Changing the fan out as well doesn't bother me.

When you say it's the Synology software does that mean you've not been able to get WOL/HDD Hibernation to work correctly on the N54L, or it does work but occasionally have issues?

It's about £350 (c.£230 saving) for something like the Synology DS414 but as you suggest still a massive difference in price.

EDIT - just to add that I've had zero issues with WOL or HDD hibernation with my existing DS211J in fact it behaves flawlessly. A lot of posts about the N54L suggests people are struggling to get WOL or HDD to spin down correctly. This would probably be a deal breaker and hence I was trying to get people's experiences with this.
 
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Are there any benefits from using a large or fast USB stick?\

Am I thinking DSM is installed on the HDD and the USB is just used to boot the NAS?

Therefore, what's the smallest USB stick I can get away with using without impacting anything?
 
Timber said:
Thank you for the feedback again.



I understand that and just had some questions to try and understand the compromises a bit more. I suspect the noise levels are probably fine but until I got one in front of me wouldn't know for sure. Changing the fan out as well doesn't bother me.

When you say it's the Synology software does that mean you've not been able to get WOL/HDD Hibernation to work correctly on the N54L, or it does work but occasionally have issues?

It's about £350 (c.£230 saving) for something like the Synology DS414 but as you suggest still a massive difference in price.

EDIT - just to add that I've had zero issues with WOL or HDD hibernation with my existing DS211J in fact it behaves flawlessly. A lot of posts about the N54L suggests people are struggling to get WOL or HDD to spin down correctly. This would probably be a deal breaker and hence I was trying to get people's experiences with this.
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Just do a search for "hibernation\WOW" on the synology forum and you will see loads of threads.

I had a DS211j and my HDs never slept. But do some more reading if I was you.
The new synology 4 bay are £415 upwards and the play version can't do plex.

Bradmax57 said:
32mb? that must be ancient? :D
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I'm using a very old 16MB stick :D
 
deuse said:
Just do a search for "hibernation\WOW" on the synology forum and you will see loads of threads.

I had a DS211j and my HDs never slept. But do some more reading if I was you.
The new synology 4 bay are £415 upwards and the play version can't do plex.
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As mentioned my own DS211J has been flawless at hibernation and WOL. I know that if you run more apps or services you might stop the HDDs from spinning down but I've not had that personally. As I have reasonably high bit rate 1080p, some AVCHD format videos and people using mobiles for PLEX in the house I have to run a separate PLEX media server (Ubuntu) for transcoding and unfortunately it doesn't sound like the N54L could replace that. And I wouldn't look at a 'Play' model becuase it drops features and doesn't do transcoding beyond the DS app that I don't use anyway.

Because I only need to a Synology for file serving and some apps I don't need much power so a £267 DS414J or £350 DS414 would probably suffice. Not sure where you are getting your prices from :p

Running a N54L idle and without proper WOL/HDD hibernation isn't ideal for me so I probably just need to give this some more thought. It sounds like it might be better suited for UnRAID, FreeNAS or OMV but that's not really what I'm looking for.
 
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Timber said:
As mentioned my own DS211J has been flawless at hibernation and WOL. I know that if you run more apps or services you might stop the HDDs from spinning down but I've not had that personally. As I have reasonably high bit rate 1080p, some AVCHD format videos and people using mobiles for PLEX in the house I have to run a separate PLEX media server (Ubuntu) for transcoding and unfortunately it doesn't sound like the N54L could replace that. And I wouldn't look at a 'Play' model becuase it drops features and doesn't do transcoding beyond the DS app that I don't use anyway.

Because I only need to a Synology for file serving and some apps I don't need much power so a £267 DS414J or £350 DS414 would probably suffice. Not sure where you are getting your prices from :p

Running a N54L idle and without proper WOL/HDD hibernation isn't ideal for me so I probably just need to give this some more thought. It sounds like it might be better suited for UnRAID, FreeNAS or OMV but that's not really what I'm looking for.
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As I said the new synology nas
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18623522 and that's the crippled one.

I think your best off staying with synology.
 
Have just installed XPEnology version 5.0-4493 from scratch (first install).

Once installed, I could access folders from machines on the network, but the NAS had no connection to the internet. Couldn't ping Google and nslookup only returned the local gateway address. (So I couldn't download any of the packages)

The cause turned out to be where I had a second NIC card (Intel) installed. It will only connect to the internet with the LAN cable in LAN 1 (in this case the extra Intel card)

Thought I'd post here in case anyone else has the same issue.

Is this because the cards need to be bonded? (the intention of using two cards is to improve bandwidth)
 
Tesla said:
Is it possible to remove the default music, photos and video folders when using media server functionality?
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You could uninstall those apps then delete the folders. But why would you want to do this?

darkblade said:
Have just installed XPEnology version 5.0-4493 from scratch (first install).

Once installed, I could access folders from machines on the network, but the NAS had no connection to the internet. Couldn't ping Google and nslookup only returned the local gateway address. (So I couldn't download any of the packages)

The cause turned out to be where I had a second NIC card (Intel) installed. It will only connect to the internet with the LAN cable in LAN 1 (in this case the extra Intel card)

Thought I'd post here in case anyone else has the same issue.

Is this because the cards need to be bonded? (the intention of using two cards is to improve bandwidth)
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Great info there dude ;)
 
Don't try and update to the latest beta as it unmounts the HDs. How ever you can update the apps you have installed.

I had to re-index my video folder for all of them to show up. The new mobile DS Video app
works great with my LG TV :) if only I could make it auto switch to 3D :(
 
visibleman said:
Going to update my Microservers to 5 - am i right in thinking nanoBoot (THIS is the guide i saw) is the now preferred option over gnoBoot?
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Seems to be the best at the moment. Works a treat too.... was able to swap disks and USB Nanoboot back and forth between a gen 8 and a gen 7 without any hiccups at all as well.

Pretty hassle-free getting up to 4493-u5 as well, although that version needs a couple of full shutdown runs to bring the disks back online. All fine after that though.
 
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