HP Microserver+XPEnology

R3X said:
Does anyone know how much the HP N54L idles at (power watts?) and also when its using say 4 large hdds when its downloading/streaming ?

Would be nice to gauge the power wattage and is WOL fully working ?
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My N54L, with 1 x 64GB Crucial C300 SSD and 2 x 3TB WD Red drives, idles at 38W. That is £30 per year @ 9.09p per kWh.
 
I have a N36L with 5GB of RAM. 3x2TB and 1x1TB HDs as well as the 250GB drive it came with.

At the moment I run WHS2011 with Stablebit Drive Pool.

Thinking of moving to Xpenology. I use the server for media streaming mainly to an XBMC box. Unfortunately I run a mixed OSX and Windows environment which causes some issues - I can't backup from a Mac to the server. I also use it to stream media via Plex to Apple devices in the house. (iPad & iPhones)

What are the pros and cons of moving to Xpenology? I assume I will need to wipe all my disks before installing?

Also, with SHD on Xpenology how exactly does the redundancy work. It might seem basic but I can't get how on my array 2GB is going to protect 5GB. If a single drive fails can the array be rebuilt in full no matter which drive dies? If I don't have a drive to replace it on hand - can I delete files and rebuild the array as a smaller array?
 
Version 4 update

How did you guys update to version 4.
I clicked on the download and it downloaded the file then ran it stating it would take about 20 mins.
2 mins later It seems to have finished but I'm still on update 3?
 
mccltd said:
How did you guys update to version 4.
I clicked on the download and it downloaded the file then ran it stating it would take about 20 mins.
2 mins later It seems to have finished but I'm still on update 3?
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You need to run two commands whilst SSH'd into the server in between the download and update; have a look here - http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1082&start=330#p9060.


spudbynight said:
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I run a N36L with XPEnology (purely used for file storage; nothing fancy) in a mixed environment (mostly Macs, few Windows/Linux machines) and apart from a few extremely minor niggles (won't boot with other USB external drives plugged in, remove and add them once booted; boot drive mounts and visible to DSM, can be scripted to unmount after booting; 'cloud' backup options are extremely limiting without going off path and doing something yourself, i'm currently hunting for a solution without using Glacier/HiDrive), i haven't had any major issues.

Main pro's - DSM is extremely easy to setup and maintain (installing XPEnology is relatively straight forward) and performance isn't too shabby on the N36L (can easily hit 90-100MB/s, indicated by OSX 10.9).
Only con i can see is that it's unofficial and it could potentially go belly up and take your data with it.

Can't help you on the SHR front as i haven't really looked into it, but there's a wiki page that goes into a reasonable amount of detail that might be worth a read if you haven't.
 
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spudbynight said:
Cheers

Would you recommend Ubuntu server over this instead?
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Never used Ubuntu for anything other than a desktop OS so can't help you there.
But i would suggest having a look at XPEnology and perhaps even trialling it using a VM as DSM is really a piece of cake to use and full of features and apps/packages (like Plex) that only take a few clicks to install/setup.
 
DS 5 Beta is out. I haven't tried it yet as it hasn't shown up in the update part of control panel. Plex for DS 5 works ok so far.

Going to try and install it now..nope :D
 
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deuse said:
Yes you can and it's very easy if you follow a few steps. I suggest having a read of this thread from the start, it's only 6 pages.

This is the files I'm using at the mow http://xpenology.trantor.be/. Don't forget any HD you use will be wiped clean.
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Can I just add an 's' to HD? ;) As in any HDs you use will be wiped clean. The DSM startup process will wipe all the drives you have in your DSM machine.
 
What kind of hardware are you guys using for your PC's running Xpenology?
Just trying to get a feel of the minimum CPU speed/cores required for transcoding to two devices simultaneously.
 
I'm running Xpeneology on my HP Microserver N40L. That's running an AMD Neo 1.5Ghz dual core CPU. I've also upgraded the memory to 8Gb but I don't think it makes that much of a difference.

AFAIK, transcoding requires a fairly meaty CPU. Plex, for example, recommends an i5 for transcoding 1080p material.
 
So I noticed something weird with my DSM installation today - The CPU is permanently at 99%. When I had a look at the process log I saw 8 processes called https_x86_64, each taking up a chunk of CPU.
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SSHing into the box and running top shows a bit more detail:
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I then checked out the .cfg shown in top:

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It seems my box has been hacked and is being used for *insert nefarious scheme here*. The box was immediately taken offline but it is a major concern that a third party has gained root access. The only port presented to the web was HTTPS, no other ports were forwarded and telnet/ssh were disabled too. I was running DSM 4.2-3211. Its frustrating that I am going to have spend the weekend sorting this out but at least I haven't lost any data...
 
Theres been nearly 5+ updates on 4.3 (literally every month since its release) ALL of which included security updates.

For the time and effort - why not just buy a synology to start with?

PS - DSM 5.0 Beta here now / me hearts my 712+ ;)
 
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