Finally I bought N40L. Installed 4.3 DSM (Xpenology) in it and it works!

Not so hard, pretty straight forward with a bit of minor problem at the beginning. I can't detect the microserver but after that, everything run smooth.

Currently only run with one 250Gb hard disk. Surely will add more in the coming week/month. Thinking of running 2 small capacity hard disk with raid 1 (for important data), and 2 x 3TB with JBOD (movies, etc). But don't know to get just green or go to red hd? Hard disk is pricey here, 2TB already reach rm350 for WD Green (not av).

Finally I bought N40L. Installed 4.3 DSM (Xpenology) in it and it works!

Not so hard, pretty straight forward with a bit of minor problem at the beginning. I can't detect the microserver but after that, everything run smooth.

Currently only run with one 250Gb hard disk. Surely will add more in the coming week/month. Thinking of running 2 small capacity hard disk with raid 1 (for important data), and 2 x 3TB with JBOD (movies, etc). But don't know to get just green or go to red hd? Hard disk is pricey here, 2TB already reach rm350 for WD Green (not av).

Where you bought your N40L from?
How much it cost?
What media you used to boot the DSM? USB pendrive?

Where you bought your N40L from?
How much it cost?
What media you used to boot the DSM? USB pendrive?

Wah, congrats ! 

Never knew you would take the Microserver and Xpenology advise seriously.

Anyway, for NAS, go for WD Red. Avoid WD Green if you can.
I think he mentioned it earlier? 800 from Lelong?

With the Xpenology, I believe you need to boot from Pendrive.

Where you bought your N40L from?
How much it cost?
What media you used to boot the DSM? USB pendrive?

Wah, congrats ! 

Never knew you would take the Microserver and Xpenology advise seriously.

Anyway, for NAS, go for WD Red. Avoid WD Green if you can.
I think he mentioned it earlier? 800 from Lelong?

With the Xpenology, I believe you need to boot from Pendrive.

Yup, bought from lelong. Double from my original budget. . But it really worth it if compare to other 4-5 bay NAS out there.
I just followed guide from Xpenology forum.
You need Usb thumdrive to boot and of course a hard drive. Another thing, you also need another pc installed with synology assistant (get it from their website) connect to the same LAN with the microserver.

Hmm..but all this hacking thingy...will the data be safe in the event of crash and recoverable???? 

Actually, I want to buy the server since last year but need to fund other project first. Only this time have enough budget  .
Plus, this is my first time I read it can run on Synology DSM, so eager to try it. I got poison by you lah  .

Hmm..but all this hacking thingy...will the data be safe in the event of crash and recoverable???? 

Don't kill the messenger ! 
Actually I would not consider it as hacking since it's open source. There's no support directly from Synology (as expected) but the software is the same one used by them. So if it's not safe on Xpenology, it would not be safe on Synology DSM also.

If I pull out a raid 1 disk from the synology, will I be able to read the data by puttiing it into a pc?

I'm assuming you're on a Windows PC?

Since the file format from the Synology is EXT4 linux system, you need to download something like this.

Wah, congrats ! 

Never knew you would take the Microserver and Xpenology advise seriously.

Anyway, for NAS, go for WD Red. Avoid WD Green if you can.
I think he mentioned it earlier? 800 from Lelong?

With the Xpenology, I believe you need to boot from Pendrive.

I plan only to switch on my microserver when ever I'm available at home, 6pm-7am and don't plan for 24/7. So, will Green do the job or still better go for RED? Red is non existent here, even for Green AV is hard to get here.

I plan only to switch on my microserver when ever I'm available at home, 6pm-7am and don't plan for 24/7. So, will Green do the job or still better go for RED? Red is non existent here, even for Green AV is hard to get here.

For the first time, one of my drive is degraded today. Got to quickly get a replacement tomorrow. 

Got the volume repaired after 30 hours odd based on log...
What UPS would you recommend for Synology? I see the choices are bit limited locally.