SSD M.2 M.2 NVME SSD Volume: Script Synology_HDD_db & Synology_M2_volume

[DaveR]

I use cheap WD Black NVMe drives, but I would recommend WD Red, Seagate Ironwolf or Samsung NVMe drives.

Other brand NVMe drives can work okay as a volume, but I've had reports of people having issues with Crucial and Kingston NVMe drives, and some Chinese brands.

 

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[framp]

@DaveR Quick question: As far as I understand a ds3622xs++ will also be able to run non Synology disks with your nice tool, for example WD. Please confirm

 

[DaveR]

@framp Yes for HDDs

For creating NVMe volumes on non Synology NVMe drives in a E10M20-T1 or M2D20 you might need an extra step.

 

[framp]

I have somebody who asked me whether he can buy a ds3622xs+ and use non compatible HDDs from WD. I told him there is a guy who created a nice script to patch the compatibility DB of Synology and this will work but given the system is quite expensive I just wanted to double check I'm right.

Thank you very much for your confirmation.

 

[Viprex]

Hey there,

I used the M2 script for creating a new pool (executed "Synology HDD db" before and let the diskstation reboot).

Tried this with 2 M2 NVME SSDs (Crucial P2 Plus SSD 1TB CT1000P3PSSD8) on my DS923+

Unfortunately, when I created the storage pool, I only placed the SHR raid over one SSD. When I realized this, the volume was already created (and data on it).
Now I wanted to undo all this, so I took the data down again and deleted the volume. Unfortunately, the storage pool cannot be deleted, I always get the error message “The system could not remove storage pool 2” (translated from German).
How can I delete storage pool 2 if not via the GUI of the Storage Manager? Unfortunately I can't find a parameter for the script?

 

[DaveR]

There is no point in using SHR with only 2 drives. To replace the drives with larger ones you need to replace 1 drive, repair the storage pool, then replace the other drive and repair the storage pool again before you get to use the extra space. So you may as well use RAID 1 as it's the same.

Something may be using the volume. Did you move anything to the NVMe volume?

If you did not move any shared folders or packages to the NVMe volume I would shut down the NAS, remove both NVMe drives, boot up, delete the missing storage pool, shut down, install the NVMe drives and try again.

Note: For me, Storage Manager always shows an empty NVMe storage pool as "12MB allocated",

 

[Viprex]

Thanks for the tip, reboot did the Job…

Guess you are right, some kind of access must have blocked the action despite the fact the Volume could je deleted, but not the storage pool…