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what is the point of 64gig of ram, I thought the cpu in these could only address 16 gig. FWIW I put a 16 gig stick in mine so running 20 all together which works fine for me.

Hi, I've just installed 16GB of RAM. And yes the second RAM slot is "inside" the case so that you have to dissemble the NAS to get to the slot. BR

Hey, there are screw’s in the package for the SSDs. At 1:58 you can see them ☺️. BR

Hi, no my RAM is not on the list and yes. the list ist very small. But so far it works fine. BR

@@Esperto84 Thanks for your reply. I'm just wondering if it's running at the speed advertised or if it gets capped out. I know it's unbuffered ECC SODIMM RAm, but is there a way to check? I already ordered TEAMGROUP 16GB 3200 CL32 RAM, but if I can get away with returning it for someting faster that will actually run at the listed speed, then I will. (I have the Lockerstor 6 Gen2, just out of the box, haven't booted it up yet)

@MRG1BZ I’m not sure if there is another way to check the RAM speed, but I checked it in the BIOS and it shows the correct speed.

@@Esperto84 amazing! Thanks!

Hi, unfortunately I didn't test this use case and I can't tell you if this is compatible with Linux. Also I fount nothing in the manual. Maybe one of the commenter knows something about that.

Hi, as far as I interpret the compatibility list correctly, your mainboard does support the Hyper Card, but only with one drive in the PCIEX_3 slot. To be able to access 4 drives you have to plug the card into the first PCIE slot. The other slots do not support bifurcation. Maybe you can use 2 drives in the second slot, it says 0/2(4X+4X), but here you should make sure that you don't “cut off” any PCIE lanes that are shared by the first and second slot. BR

@@Esperto84 thanks

Hi, no problems so far. I had one issue with a HDD and I had to exchange the HDD, but the rebuilding process of the RAID worked fine.

Thank you. I didn't test your scenario exactly, but I've open 2 1080p movies and activate the subtitle. I did it with JellyFin in two separate browser windows. The CPU usage was about 5 to 8% per video. I didn't see anything strange. Also downsampling to 720p seems to be no problem. The CPU usage doesn't change that much, maybe by 2 or 3%. I hope this helps a little bit 😊

@@Esperto84 Thank you for your fast response! Your answer helps, for sure 🙂

Yes, and on their website is stated that 2x8GB is supported. (www.asustor.com/en-gb/product/spec?p_id=77=) And I think, I'm not 100 percent sure anymore, but one person here in the comment said, that also 32 GB are working, but I didn't test this statement.

That sounds strange. Perhaps Asustor has released a new revision. Have you checked to see if there is another screw or even some other mechanism holding the SATA board in place? I hope Asustor haven't glued or even soldered the board in place, which is illogical as otherwise you can no longer access the other components.

Hi, from my experience I would suggest you put the Hyper M2 card in the first PCI16 slot and your graphics card in the third PCI16 slot. You still need to activate bifurcation in the BIOS. If you are concerned about graphics card performance, I recommend doing a benchmark without the Hyper M2 card while the graphics card is in slot 1 and then after the Hyper card is in slot 1 and the graphics card is in slot 3. Then you will know exactly, but I suspect that there won't be too much difference. If you put the graphics card in the second slot, then the PCI lanes will be split between the first and second slots and there won't be enough available, so the graphics card should be in the third slot, which is tied to the chipset. I hope this helps you. BR

Hey, at the time of filming SSD price were pretty high. The intention was that as read and write cache it wouldn't be that bad if a SSD failed because I doesn't store any important data on them.

You never stop learning 😉 th-cam.com/users/shorts4Y39TD0RvUY

@@Esperto84 which mainboard is this?

It's the ASUS ROG STRIX X570-F Gaming

@@Esperto84 Did you have a gpu test after connected? It's impossible to have full performance..

Well, the mainboard can support SLI configuration and I'm pretty sure it handles the gpu in the lower PCIe slot well. At least I have no complains nor issues with gaming or video rendering. I'm not a person who bothers about 2 or 3 percent performance difference if that would be the case.

There is nothing in the manual that says you can use ECC RAM and according to my internet research it is probably not possible to use ECC RAM.

What are you getting at? The possibility of parity calculation errors with this combination?

Hi, I don't think so, because the industry still wants to differentiate between consumer and business hardware. On the one hand, I don't see a trend for more PCI lanes in consumer CPUs at the moment and on the other hand, the manufacturers want to continue to earn a decent amount of money. Personally, I would prefer to be able to assemble certain PC components myself. For example, you could have a mainboard with the function of bifurcating all PCI slots and a CPU with many PCI lanes and a few fewer CPU cores or slightly lower clock rates or several chipsets on the mainboard, which can process the data in conjunction with the CPU. The possibilities are seemingly limitless, at least in my mind. 😉 You could practically really build your own PC. "Just my two cents"

@@Esperto84 Thanks! Yoo, that would be awesome! Then it would be truly modular in every sense, and you could completely tailor everything to your need! Which I sort of feel is the basis of PC building anyways, so it’s a shame that it is not attainable at the moment, but if we keep pushing perhaps we could see it in the future☺️ Yeah, those threadrippers and their mobos are crazy expensive! So we would be bulding the parts that make up our PC to save on the actual parts. Pc-building inception😂 Thanks again man! - greetings from Norway🇳🇴

Yep, as I mentioned before, I had a few technical difficulties. But if you watch a few more recent videos, you'll realise that the audio has improved 😉

Well, you never know what your hidden strengths are unless someone tells you 😂

@@Esperto84 😂

@@Esperto84 new channel coming soon 😂

Thank you 😃 You can use SSD as normal volumes. I did that too. You don’t have to use the SSD as a cache. Another commenter also mentioned that, if you initialise the NAS with a SSD as Volume 1 then the HDDs “can hibernate” because the OS will be installed on the SSDs. BR Esperto

Sure ,ssd as read write cache need 2 ssds , read cache only need 1. and you can create volume for data on ssd.

Hi, I've used a PH2 so a Philips Head size 2. Just pause the video at 01:06

With a PCIe riser cable? I'm not sure but technically it could work.

Theoretically yes, but there are some things to consider. First the card uses a PCIe 16x connector and for every SSD you'll install 4 PCIe Lanes are used. Now it depends on your motherboards specifications. If you have a full 16x PCIe slot which is in the most cases the first two slots your board must support bifurcation if you want to use all 4 available NVME slots. It is important to know how your motherboard cuts the PCI lanes between the different slots and which slots are directly connected to the CPU or chipset. I would suggest you to study the manual of your motherboard and if your actual PC configuration (graphic card and maybe other PCIe cards you have already installed) are compatible with the hyper cards requirements. I'll hope that will help. BR Esperto

Thanks. With 2 driver I would say RAID 1 is a good start. You'll literally save your data twice and you'll have a total storage of 14 TB. Later with a third drive you could switch to RAID 5. Then you'll have 28TB storage and the third drive is the parity drive. But maybe anybody here have also a different suggestion? BR

Hi, thanks for this tip. Indeed I have this option enabled in the ADM SMB settings.

Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I'll write a note in the video description. BR

Is there a processor upgrade path using Asus motherboards? For example, if the Docker workload grows (or is larger than expected).

@@jimcallahan448 From checking their website, it seems most of ASUS's desktop PC motherboards are upgradeable, but it appears their laptop boards are not upgradeable.

Hi, yes indeed, there is a video from Asustor itself. Watch: th-cam.com/video/Pn63oLArpnE/w-d-xo.html BR Esperto 😎

Wow, what a surprise. Thanks for letting us know. So I there is still room fur upgrades, nice 😉

@@Esperto84 Yes apparently - want to test it out for us?! ;)

Of course, if my 16GB isn't enough anymore 😄

Yeah, looking closer at the Intel spec sheet it is 16Gb max "per channel" (if you read the little "?" explanations. So 32Gb :) @@Esperto84

Yeah, and also the max memory speed is 2933 MT/s but a 3200 MT/s module was pre-installed 😆

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Actually I have docker containers running. I know that the NVMEs have a limited write volume, but I don't think that much data goes through the cache. But I will keep an eye on the SMART values of the NVME SSDs and switch to Enterprise SSDs if necessary. BR Esperto

Yeah, based on their website I thought a 300 MT/s different won't be noticeable that much. But instead a faster RAM was installed. But I'm good with that and I could upgrade it anytime anyway. 😀

@@Esperto84size is much more important than speed while talk about RAM

I think it relates also to the purpose. If I want a system which has to be responsive in the fastest way I would try to use the fastest components I get. And it also a question of your budget and needs.

Uhhh ohhh.. somebody doesn't understand that higher frequency means higher latency which basically cancels out the higher frequency...

​@@tim3172this has been scientifically disproven multiple times by multiple different sources, via math as well as testing. The higher frequencies can and do make up for the latency increase in almost all cases There are very few use cases where the requirement for small latency is so great that the actual speed doesn't matter, but in almost every other case the overall performance of the system is far more important than just acknowledging a request quickly, you do need to actually get the data to the processor too

Hi Dominik, many thanks for your "konstruktive Kritik". I will take care of the points you mentioned and will try to learn, make, repeat 😀. Have a great day. Viele Grüße Esperto

Hi, can you please explain from your point of view, what is not fair about the comparison? BR

Hi, which adapter do you mean? I had used both of them and they worked fine, but since I've got the Canon RF Adapter I only use this one because of the extra weather sealing. But I've never experienced an issue with the focus modes. Which lens do you use?

@@Esperto84 I have the sigma 18-35 and the 55-250 canon lens for some reason it will not let me use autofocus at all just manual and the aperture will not change, the shots I take is barely in focus I have the commlite adapter

@@asayaisrael2859 That sounds strange. If the adapter is new I would recommend to exchange it from your dealer. I haven't any other ideas why the adapter is not working so far. Normally if you attach a lens to the body the camera will closes the aperture automatically even if the camera is off. Did your camera do that mechanism?

@@Esperto84 yes it did I might have to update the firmware of the adapter

@@asayaisrael2859 Yeah, maybe. I'll hope that will solve your problem. BR

Hi, each NVME SSD has to be initialized in the Windows Disk Management. After that step every SSD will show up as a separate drive. To your second question. My observations shows that the Hyper Card use all 16 pci lanes if you are using 4 SSDs. On my motherboard the first two pcie slots shares 16 lanes and if I'm using just 2 SSDs I can still use another device on the second slot but this device will have only 8 lanes. But that depends on your motherboard and every brand has different pcie configurations. To your micron nvme issue. I have just a tip. Can you set in your BIOS the option for bifurcation? This must be set for the pcie slot else I think the expansion card and its first SSD will just recognize as one device. I hope this will help. BR Esperto

Thank you for your feedback 👍

Hi, I also just use the Hyper Card as storage expansion. Me neither use it as a RAID. BR

Hi, I'm not familiar with the Gigabyte motherboard and your computer setup but as far as I can tell from the manual your board has 3 PCIe Slots with fully supported 16 PCIe lanes. Now it could be possible that you can just install your Hyper card into slot 2 or 3. I guess that the PCIe lanes from the first slot are directly connected to the CPU while the other lanes from the slot 2 and 3 are connected to the chipset. I'm not sure if you have to set anything in the BIOS but it doesn't hurt if you look through all settings due to any kind of bifurcation settings. 3 of the 4 M.2 sockets on the board are connected to the chipset which means that 28 lanes are splitted up to them and the 2 other PCIe slots. So if you use all M.2 sockets on the board and want to use all 4 available M.2 slots of the Hyper card that could lead to not recognized SSDs in your Hyper card. I'll hope that helps. BR

@@Esperto84 Thanks for your time and explanation. But only one M.2 SSD slot were busy, it was օն top of տհե video card - 980 Pro 1TB SSD (Win 11 OS), all other places were without any SSDs, so this can you tell me how to solve this issue? How i can use 2x SSD on Asus Hyper M.2 card? could it be the reason that my m/board doesn't recognize the 2x SSDs from Hyper M.2 card, it need the Asus Rog Strix Z690 Gaming-E motherboard or Asus Z690 Maximum Hero M/board?

​@@Emperor-2029 Well, can you run your system on the onboard graphic (if you have a CPU with integrated GPU) and put the Hyper card in the first slot. Just to be sure the SSDs are working fine (and also will be recognized). If so and it is just working on the first PCIe slot I would suggest to contact Gigabyte customer support as well as Asus customer support. Maybe Asus will update their compatibility list because it's just goes until the 590-chipsets. And maybe they have also a solution for you. I don't want to recommend to you to buy another expensive board if it is not necessary. If I understand it correctly you have 3 free M.2 slot on the board, why do you don't want to use them? Asking the people on reddit and on the forum site of Gigabyte and Asus can also be an option. I'm running out of ideas here but I'll hope you'll find a quick and easy solution. Let me know if you found one. Thanks

@@Esperto84 i have put Hyper M.2 card to the first slot(and the same time i have put RTX 3090 video card to the second PCIE slot), but it was not supported there also 2x M.2 SSDs. What else you suggest me to test for this issue?

@@Emperor-2029 Just to be sure that the SSDs are working fine (and I think they do), can you plug the SSDs directly to the M.2 sockets on the boards and see if they will be recognized? Also, did the Asus Hyper card works in another Computer before? If so I'll think your Gigabyte maybe doesn't support the Hyper card. And one last chance to find out if the Hyper card is working, did you have any colleagues or friends who might have a Asus mainboard and try the card in their system.