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You need to pull the metal clip backwards slightly and then outwards, it's designed to have a bit of mounting pressure.

Board has uncooled VRMs, so wouldn't go higher than an i5 unless you like the burning smell coming from your board after trying to max an i7 in there. The newest CPU is well over 10 years old, wouldn't put a lot of money into this.

I totally missed that The only thing that comes to mind is the extended time AMD boards take to complete POST. The laptop likely has fastboot enabled as well.

The compatibility isn't really that relevant. The drive will still work, but lack some specific features built into DSM. You're not likely to find any drives for sale that existed when your NAS was new. 2013 is a long time ago in tech. Just pop them in and click continue

The QVO is the bottom of the barrel Samsung SSD with slow QLC NAND. The WD Black is a fast NVMe SSD with TLC NAND. Latency and throughput are significantly better on the WD so it makes sense. Also, the i5-6200U really isn't that quick and 12GB of memory means mismatched sticks, so you'd be in single channel, also losing performance there. Also, the NVMe drive is PCIe 4.0 whereas the QVO is basic SATA.

The E5649 should be an interesting one to try, as it's the lowest TDP 6-core in that particular range.

The letters are related to binning and power envelope. These chips were never intended for overclocking, so that is not a part of it. L - Low power operation E - Efficiency oriented operation - 80W TDP or lower X - Performance oriented operation - 95+ TDP W - Workstation single socket operation - similar to E/X series, but with only 1 QPI link. The X chips have the best binning generally.

The P420i is on the system board, so yes, this is likely included.

The DL380 Gen8 is a wonderful server for the money, now that they're being dumped left and right. Things to note: - You shouldn't need the FLOM card, the server has 4 ports on board already. - Each harddrive needs a caddy - Don't buy a single 146GB drive, get a cheap new SSD instead and run the rest on the SAS 10k disks I'd go with the second configuration myself. The V2 Xeons are a better value buy than the power hungry 1st gen parts. We still have a bunch of these in service running VMware ESXi 6.7 so if you're looking at that, you're good to go. With a small workaround it will run 7.0 as well.

Yup. Install the VPN server package and setup OpenVPN. You'll only need to open 1 port in your firewall and you'll be able to access the files remotely. File server is by default, as a NAS is literally network attached storage, so meant for storing files

That's a good place to start, especially for the money. Those mobile Ryzens are pretty efficient.

Typically, NAS systems don't offer a VPN client but just a server. In that situation, you're looking at either a site-to-site tunnel or a port forward with IP whitelisting.

Agreed. The low wattage CPUs (Intel T series notably) are excellent for low power computing. I built myself a 1.5U rack server with similar goals in mind. - i3 10100T - 16GB RAM - H510 ITX board - 1.5U rack mount case with 2 3,5" bays. With modern CPUs allowing 16GB DIMMs no problem, you can easily get something very compact to a good amount of RAM, CPU and storage in a very small form factor. I'd look for something Intel 8th gen or AMD Zen1 or newer.

Yes, as long as it, again, has 8GB RAM minimum and no eMMC.

Depends on the cooler. I have even run a 4.7GHz overclock at 1.25v on my 5600X for a while and on a H115 AIO it never went over 65.

You'll need a lot of mailboxes before this endeavour makes sense. You need to have both Exchange CALs and Windows Server CALs for all possible users accessing a mailbox or any other resource on said server(s) You need a license for your Exchange server You need a license for all Windows instances you're using You need to also keep in mind Exchange 2019 will go end of life in 2025, there probably won't be an on-prem Exchange after that. So can you justify the few thousand dollars of upfront cost to go back to your original situation in 3,5 years? If not, forget about it. The $3 a month for a user mailbox won't break the bank.

The EXE you list is for a USB flash drive. That file is firmly behind a paywall and almost unobtainable. Try the file I listed above.

The last BIOS for the ML150G6 probably won't fix that. This model is close to 13 years old. Time to look for something newer. That said, I've shared the BIOS update on this forum before: This one worked fine on the ML150G6 I had a few years ago.

Yes, this is how it should work. Sounds to me the AP mode is bugged. Is there any newer firmware available for it?

The gateway address should be the IP of your C60 router. And no connection to the WAN of the WR845N. WR845N should have a static IP if it can't accept an IP via a LAN interface for management.

The basic setup is as follows: Leave the C60 as is - DHCP enabled, router mode. WR845N - disable DHCP, enable Acess Point mode and connect the ethernet cable LAN to LAN. So from a LAN port of the C60 to a LAN port on the WR854N. Don't use the WAN port.

The log says the file is locked, which means there is already a Minecraft instance running. Kill all Java processes if you're sure nothing is running and run it again. You can't run the same world in both single and multiplayer instances simultaneously.

As stated above, so called multi gig ethernet, which encapsulates 2,5 and 5GbE are very recent standards. They're only supported if the switch in question explicitly lists it as supported. Switches that qualify are a few hundred bucks at least.

Are you using proper SAS cables? Does the drive even spin up?