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Seconding Synology - they are very nice little boxes for the sort of usage you'd put on them at home.
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I don't think any Windows can run off a USB stick because it resets the USB ports as it boots, or something like that. You could run ESXi off a USB stick but that's probably a bit overkill.
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Nov 16, 2012 20:47
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Am I missing something in FreeNAS? I'm using 9.1.1 as a stop-gap until a Synology box arrives, with one volume and a simple CIFS share. Any new folders I create have read permissions granted to the Everyone group, whether I do the creating on the Windows client or in a command line on the box itself. Even if I remove all mention of Everyone from a folders permissions and disable inheritance, anything I created in that folder has read access granted to Everyone. The root of the volume has read attributes and permissions enabled for Everyone, applied to the single folder only. The new folder permissions are showing as inheriting their permissions from nowhere, it just seems somewhere in FreeNAS the Everyone group is set to see everything. Guest access is turned off, volume permissions are 750 with the owner user as root and owner group as wheel. Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Sep 16, 2013 |
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Sep 16, 2013 01:05
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Robocopy and a scheduled task will keep two folders in sync, no need to make it more complicated than that.
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Dec 9, 2013 13:39
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True, you could get creative with rotating the target folder based on the day of the week so you always have the previous days file but something like File History is a lot less hassle.
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Dec 9, 2013 14:18
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Synology stuff goes j, nothing, + in terms of stuff like CPU, RAM etc. Last generation's + is roughly this generations no-suffix. They've started doing se models now to gently caress that scheme up though.
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Dec 10, 2013 20:12
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The WD My Cloud range are meant to be not poo poo any more.
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Dec 15, 2013 22:03
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I read a review online somewhere that said you can share folders with people just by sending them a code to type into their app, so you can make a photos folder and send gramps the code to tap into the iPad and it sorts the rest out, no loving around with user accounts.
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Dec 18, 2013 00:46
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There should be a Backup and Restore option in the Control Panel. You can create rsync jobs in that.
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Dec 18, 2013 20:40
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I think it's a form factor they've made up: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C224D4I-14S It's a fair bit wider than Mini ITX
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Dec 27, 2013 14:36
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Don Lapre posted:Its longer than ITX, doesnt seem wider Well, that depends what way up it is. I think it's at least a 'slot' bigger than the space a dual slot ITX board would use up if such a thing existed. It would probably fit in that case though.
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Dec 27, 2013 19:02
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I guess you can take something out the middle without taking everything else out of position but I don't get it either. Lack tables are cheap poo poo and any screws you put into them are going to pull straight out with any sort of loading. Proper racks get thrown out all the time, just keep an eye on Craigslist/Gumtree/eBay etc.
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Dec 28, 2013 23:33
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Can you not do it backwards and have the UPS connected to the server and the server handling the network part of things, so your PC is just a client?
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Jan 3, 2014 18:32
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Fangs404 posted:I could do that, but since my UPS isn't an APC, the NAS would use a different driver, and I'd be back to square one. Unless I'm misunderstanding you.... http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/UPS http://www.networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html If your UPS is on that list shouldn't it work with minimal fuckery? Then you just need a Windows NUT client to handle shutting your desktop down.
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Jan 3, 2014 19:18
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I don't see a need for a spinning disk in a desktop / laptop at all. For home use you have stuff like the WD Mybook or a NAS if you're a bit nerdier, and enterprise hasn't been storing anything locally for a while (ideally). Spinning disks will be around as long as they are cheaper per GB than flash with acceptable performance, but hidden away in a datacentre.
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Jan 16, 2014 21:11
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Reboot is on the fake Start menu thing in DSM
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Jan 18, 2014 02:13
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Does your BIOS let you choose what it emulates USB disks as?
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Jan 31, 2014 01:31
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Maybe it says you will lose all the data on the non-failed disks because one of the disks that you lose might be the one that has all the information about your 'array'? I'd assume you can still connect the disk up to another machine and pull the data out of it, if it's not just fragments of files.
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Feb 5, 2014 23:06
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If it's a working Xserve then shift it on eBay. People pay stupid money for them.
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Feb 6, 2014 19:43
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The problem you face is if you swap the fans out for slower ones then the management systems of the server will see that and either not power it up or beep at you constantly. There is really nothing you can do to make a 1U box quiet.
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Feb 6, 2014 20:21
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Yeah, each horizontal group is a volume.
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Feb 15, 2014 19:01
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If you don't actually want to share your library then you can just relocate your library onto the NAS. At which point it works exactly like iTunes on your local storage would, just a little bit slower.
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Feb 17, 2014 17:47
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If you have a bunch of PC hardware kicking around then you owe it to yourself to at least try Xpenology on it - if it works then you've saved some cash, if you hate it then you haven't bought a Synology NAS that you don't like.
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Feb 24, 2014 17:50
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Because I pay Backblaze $50 a year and only have 80GB of stuff on there.
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Mar 7, 2014 16:14
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Yes to everything above. You can use an attached USB drive as a backup target if you want, and you browse it through a web-based file browser in the NAS UI. For offsite backup I have an AWS account and use the Synology Glacier app to backup to Amazon.
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Mar 7, 2014 21:34
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Flipperwaldt posted:Or is it their servers getting hammered? That one. Took a few tries to get mine going.
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Mar 10, 2014 21:53
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Any reason why you would RAID1 a two-bay NAS rather than setting one volume as the data and the other one taking the backups of that volume?
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Mar 12, 2014 16:32
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Qnap vs Synology pretty much comes down to preference. I've had no experience with Qnap, but every time I've needed support from Synology they have been very helpful, even going as far as connecting to our VPN to SSH into one of their boxes to set up out SNMP UPS before it was officially supported in the firmware. I can't recommend them enough.
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Mar 20, 2014 21:47
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They are both fairly low powered single-core boxes, but will be more than fine as a NAS as long as you aren't planning on doing a load of video transcoding on them. If you are planning to use it for something more advanced than plain NAS then the prices for beefier hardware get very high very quickly so you're almost better off rolling your own Xpenology box at that point. Qnap vs. Synology is personal preference a lot of the time - I've only ever used Synology and have been very happy with the product and their tech support, so haven't had a reason to look elsewhere.
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Mar 25, 2014 23:58
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Just ordered an ES550VA because I'd been looking at them for a while, and it was only £60.
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Mar 30, 2014 20:18
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Have you added a shared folder? Your path will end up looking like \\NAS\share
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Mar 31, 2014 20:19
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MMD3 posted:no, haven't added any yet... this is my first time using a NAS as opposed to a DAS, I guess I was just trying to figure out a way to share \\NAS\ (in this case \\DiskStation\. Don't touch the file system at all, just create a new shared folder and it will go into /volume1/ by itself. You can't use the root of a device to dump stuff in, there has to be a share setup on the device itself.
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Mar 31, 2014 20:35
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MMD3 posted:well I'd be totally alright with it showing up as a computer like that, I'm just not sure what I missed in configuration to get it to show up like that. Have you turned on Windows file sharing?
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Apr 1, 2014 22:06
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Never get a single-bay NAS, the savings over a two just aren't worth it. You sound like a candidate for the Synology DS214play which I believe is Synology's only NAS with the H.264 hardware built in so it can transcode on the fly.
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May 4, 2014 23:27
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If it's just you using Google Drive then use the Google Drive app package thing, point it at a share and then use that to store your stuff in, then remove the Google Drive application from your PC.
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May 23, 2014 21:28
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I'm happy with Synology at the moment, though they do seem to be releasing tons of software updates lately. I've no idea if this is to fix problems they've caused, and at least a couple of them have been Shellshock / Bash vuln fixes, so just bear in mind that they aren't a great option if you need uptime. The trade off is that they do a shitload.
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Nov 22, 2014 00:39
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Synology boxes have the capability of doing folder sync and a Dropbox-like feature for PCs. Be careful treating a folder sync like a backup though, it won't protect you against people overwriting stuff unless you're really quick and act as soon as it happens.
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Dec 12, 2014 10:40
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Plex transcodes. Normal DLNA playback would require your TV or whatever to support all the formats you are trying to play with it. The "play" variants of the Synology boxes have hardware transcoding, I have no idea if Plex can take advantage of this though.
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Dec 25, 2014 13:35
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j is the poo poo-tier version, Play has hardware that can transcode on the fly for DLNA clients. The numbers are the amount of drives they can take and the production year - DS212 is a two-bay model from 2012. A DS1513 is a 2013 model that can hold up to 15 disks (via two expansion units). Essentially the higher the number the better.
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In the minimal amount of research I did I found that a previous year's standard model was roughly equivalent to the current year's j version as far as transfer speeds go. The throughput figures that Synology publish are pretty accurate, so just go with whatever you're comfortable with. If you're planning on running lots of extra apps on the thing like the various newsgroup processing things then you'll probably want one of the beefier units.
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