February 1, 20179 yr Author Bump for myself... considering upgrading D525 and consolidating my gaming desktop again..
February 1, 20179 yr I had forgotten about this thread when I wrote my recent "v6 on Atom D525" thread, but there are certainly a couple of interesting comments in this one ... ... I had been considering giving v6 a try on this, but your experience has definitely convinced me my inclination to just leave well enough alone is the right approach for that system. ... I use it purely as a NAS ... Clean PowerDown, UPS support, and UnMenu are the only extras installed on it -- and all I need. So there's no reason to move it to v6. This still matches my eventual decision to just leave in on v5 after giving 6.2.4 a try (as documented in my newer thread). Seems you came to the same conclusion last year ... ... I REALLY should have kept this on v5 until the hardware upgrade...
February 1, 20179 yr Author I was able to eventually tweak the D525 for 'good enough' performance as a v6 Nas... But the disk conversion was super painful... And the initial untweaked D525 performance was horrid. I'm itching to use more of v6 features.... my daughter is entering school which requires her to now have a computer presence (vm fits really well) ... And I think the hardware list here may still be the best option
February 1, 20179 yr Agree, the hardware list here is still a SUPERB system that would work very well for this. And a VM is definitely a good choice => trivial to back up; restore if/when needed [Just save a copy of the virtual hard drive periodically]; etc.
February 1, 20179 yr ... I was able to eventually tweak the D525 for 'good enough' performance as a v6 Nas I agree, by the way, that the D525 works "good enough" as a NAS under v6. I debated about whether or not to just leave it on v6; but decided since my ONLY use of the system is as a NAS, and the simple fact is there are NO features in v6 that made a difference for my use case, I preferred to have the notably higher performance and much quicker parity checks, so back to v5 it went and will indeed just stay there until I eventually retire the trusty old Atom ... which will likely be quite a few years from now.
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