x53d - pcie nvme cache

[stigfaerch]

For my ts-253d, I bought a 3rd party pcie nvme adapter and installed an Intel 660p 512GB I had laying around for caching.
It's recognized all right, but when I try to create the ssd cache acceleration, the option PCIe 1 SSD 1 is just greyed out (as are the two hdd's in raid 1), so I cannot select it.
The question is if this will ever work?
Could the reason be that I'm running Qnap 5? Should I try to downgrade?
Could the reason be that the drive is not on the compatible list?
Or did I overlook something? I know that I cannot create as storage, but I just wanted to try the ssd caching.

Thanks in advance.

/Stig

[dolbyman]

3rd party adapters are not allowed for cache

https://www.qnap.com/en-in/how-to/faq/a ... oage-space

[stigfaerch]

3rd party adapters are not allowed for cache

https://www.qnap.com/en-in/how-to/faq/a ... oage-space

How do you come to that conclusion?

SSD Type: PCIe/NVMe M.2
Installation Method: 3rd-party M.2 to PCIe adapter card
SSD Cache : Yes
Storage Space: No

[dolbyman]

I must have derped then

Then it's time for a ticket with QNAP

[stigfaerch]

Then it's time for a ticket with QNAP

I created a support ticket. But so far they seem not very helpful. Feels like communicating with a bot.

Funny thing is that I found it is infact possible to install apps on the SSD drive. So it is working in some sense.

[Burger99]

Hi! I've ran into a similar problem and solved.
Bought a 3rd party adapter for my Intel 600p NVME and mounted on my Qnap TS-251D. The NAS recognized the Intel SSD in the disks list but on the way to enabling the SSD Cache it was greyed out, I wasn't capable to select it as my cache.
The problem for me was that the SSD wasn't brand new, i had a bunch of partitions on it, I had to plug it in a pc, clean disk, and create a partition in EXT4 filsystem. If u don't have a linux machine like me u can use a program on Windows (DiskGenius, portable version), but I think that it would work also by only cleaning the SSD, without creating the EXT4 partition.

Hope this will solve ur problem!

[dolbyman]

disk cleaning in windows can be done with diskpart..no need for extra programs