pastrychef's Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming (WI-FI AC) build w/ i9-9900K + AMD 6600 XT

[Thorsager]

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[elfcake]

I built an XPEnology NAS (it's like hackintosh for Synology). When I first experimented with it, I built it off of an Intel SS4200 NAS that I bought used from eBay for about $80. This was a four bay NAS and I just installed the XPEnology bootloaeder and used the Synology DSM 5.0. It worked beautifully.

After falling deeply in love with the Synology DSM, I built a custom eight bay NAS using a Silverstone DS380 case and ASRock C2550D4I motherboard. This gave me hot swap bays so I can swap out bad drives and/or upgrade drives to increase capacity without having to shut down. I also added 10GBase-T to give me high speed access to the data (approx 800MB/s reads). All of this is attached to an APC UPS so that it can shut down cleanly in the event of a power failure. This setup helped keep my data safe even through Hurricane Sandy.

In my opinion, the Synology DSM operating system is about as macOS-like as a NAS can possibly get in terms of user friendliness. Everything is done through a GUI that is accesses via a web browser. It's also extremely powerful and capacity can be easily expanded by swapping small drives with larger drives or adding more drives (extremely similar to how a Drobo works).

I even use the built-in SFTP server sometimes to share files with friends that are too large for email attachments or more conventional file sharing methods. One time, I had to help restore a MacBook Pro from a Carbon Copy Cloner image and my friend just sent the 150GB file over the internet to me rather than having to make an extra 1 hour trip to sneakernet the file to me. I also run Plex server on the NAS to serve media to my Apple TV.

It was my experience with the XPEnology bootloader that gave me the confidence to try and build a hackintosh. The theory behind both are quite similar. Use a bootloader (XPEnology or Clover) to trick operating systems (Synology DSM or macOS) in to thinking that off-the-shelf hardware is Synology or Apple hardware.

Fascinating! I will look into it.

 

[pit512]

in most european countries the upload speed would be way too slow, to do that. would take at least a week to upload.

Don't know for other European countries, but in France I have 600 Mbit/s upload speed.
That means about 33 minutes upload for 150 GB...

 

[elfcake]

I built an XPEnology NAS (it's like hackintosh for Synology). When I first experimented with it, I built it off of an Intel SS4200 NAS that I bought used from eBay for about $80. This was a four bay NAS and I just installed the XPEnology bootloaeder and used the Synology DSM 5.0. It worked beautifully.

After falling deeply in love with the Synology DSM, I built a custom eight bay NAS using a Silverstone DS380 case and ASRock C2550D4I motherboard. This gave me hot swap bays so I can swap out bad drives and/or upgrade drives to increase capacity without having to shut down. I also added 10GBase-T to give me high speed access to the data (approx 800MB/s reads). All of this is attached to an APC UPS so that it can shut down cleanly in the event of a power failure. This setup helped keep my data safe even through Hurricane Sandy.

In my opinion, the Synology DSM operating system is about as macOS-like as a NAS can possibly get in terms of user friendliness. Everything is done through a GUI that is accesses via a web browser. It's also extremely powerful and capacity can be easily expanded by swapping small drives with larger drives or adding more drives (extremely similar to how a Drobo works).

I even use the built-in SFTP server sometimes to share files with friends that are too large for email attachments or more conventional file sharing methods. One time, I had to help restore a MacBook Pro from a Carbon Copy Cloner image and my friend just sent the 150GB file over the internet to me rather than having to make an extra 1 hour trip to sneakernet the file to me. I also run Plex server on the NAS to serve media to my Apple TV.

It was my experience with the XPEnology bootloader that gave me the confidence to try and build a hackintosh. The theory behind both are quite similar. Use a bootloader (XPEnology or Clover) to trick operating systems (Synology DSM or macOS) in to thinking that off-the-shelf hardware is Synology or Apple hardware.

If I am understanding this correctly, one can use any computer case and any MB/CPU with memory?

 

[mm2margaret]

Here's some interesting news on the 10.14.5 Beta (hint: VII): https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...14-4-and-10-14-5-beta-driver-results.2170567/

See the first post, EDIT#2

 

[pastrychef]

If I am understanding this correctly, one can use any computer case and any MB/CPU with memory?

Pretty much. There are many success stories from users with different motherboards, so you can try looking for what others have had success with.

Can can be anything you like.

 

[pastrychef]

Here's some interesting news on the 10.14.5 Beta (hint: VII): https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...14-4-and-10-14-5-beta-driver-results.2170567/

See the first post, EDIT#2

Yes, there are success stories on this forum too. Looks like 10.14.5 will be a great update.

 

[elfcake]

Pretty much. There are many success stories from users with different motherboards, so you can try looking for what others have had success with.

Can can be anything you like.

Thank you. I have a new/unused aluminum Mac Pro case (still have protective film on it) and the cases from two previous builds. Sadly, I sold the Z77 board with CPU and 64 gb ddr3 as well as a Z170 with CPU last month. I suppose one of those would have worked.

 

[pastrychef]

Thank oyu. I have a new/unused aluminum Mac Pro case (still have protective film on it) and the cases from two previous builds. Sadly, I sold the Z77 board with CPU and 64 gb ddr3 as well as a Z170 with CPU last month. I suppose one of those would have worked.

I've seen quite a few success stories with Z170 users.

 

[borisnet]

@pastrychef - I upgraded to the last set of kexts and upgraded to 10.14.4 successfully however I noticed the fans of AMD R580 8GB do not spin constantly which means that every now and then, they spin fast for 20secs which frankly is a bit annoying.
I did not observe this behaviour when I was on 10.14.3, previous Chameleon version and previous kext versions - to refer to you version of kext package, that was v4.5.1. I see this on 4.5.3.

Am I the only one seeing (hearing to be correct) this behaviour with the AMD GPU?