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Re: NAS suggestions

mande01 — Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:01 am

Author: mande01

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:01 am

Update on HP proLiant Mini server

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Re: NAS suggestions

mande01 — Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:55 pm

Author: mande01

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:55 pm

I got me a Netgear Stora.
i think they have a bad name but I got into it via ssh from using this site www.openstora.com/.

I now control it via webmin, very sweet!

two 1.5 Tb drives, teh device is more or less teh exact same size as the two drives!
With a little tweaking you can do anything.
The default set up is good, but they direct you to mystora.com to access your NAS, very weird and big brother ish.
But i just turned off the redirect as per the wiki at openstora.com.

Oh and I got the empty box off ebay for �60!

All works fine with no complaints, currently rsyncing 65GB of photos; ext drive to NAS to web hosting.

Very happy!

Derry

Re: NAS suggestions

drws — Tue May 31, 2011 7:39 pm

Author: drws

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 7:39 pm

I'd second the lg nas recommendation. (if you can find one)
got mine 8-9 months ago and its been on 24/7 since then with only the odd reboot for firmware updates.

Re: NAS suggestions

Brian Hunter — Fri May 27, 2011 10:13 pm

Author: Brian Hunter

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 10:13 pm

bobthebob1234 wrote:

Reasons:

Cheap
Works with penguins
Allowed me to put what ever drives I wanted in
Supported raid 1
USB ports for printer (and it works to )
Low power (sleep mode, etc)
Gigibit ethernet for when I get gigabit switch to fling massive files around my network
Added bonus of dvd drive

CIFS/SMB communication will work with linux and winblows (assuming you have samba client installed on linux). I actually have a share on my nas mounted on my myth tv box via samba.

I could have gone for a plug server thing a me bob and installed everything myself, but I just wanted something I could turn on, it work without any fuss and just be there

Nice one, cheers. I basically want the same, something that just works.

Good point on the drives, need to make sure i'm not being tied down to a particular vendor.

Thanks again.

Re: NAS suggestions

bobthebob1234 — Fri May 27, 2011 7:47 pm

Author: bobthebob1234

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 7:47 pm

Reasons:

Cheap
Works with penguins
Allowed me to put what ever drives I wanted in
Supported raid 1
USB ports for printer (and it works to )
Low power (sleep mode, etc)
Gigibit ethernet for when I get gigabit switch to fling massive files around my network
Added bonus of dvd drive

Re: NAS suggestions

Brian Hunter — Fri May 27, 2011 6:23 pm

Author: Brian Hunter

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 6:23 pm

What were your reasons for going to this one?

I'm trying to get as much info as I can before I buy, I'd like to get something as, like you mentioned, penguin friendly as possible.

Re: NAS suggestions

bobthebob1234 — Fri May 27, 2011 5:24 pm

Author: bobthebob1234

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 5:24 pm

I got the lg nas in the end and stuck two 1tb drives in it, then set up raid 1.

Unfortunately it is now apparently discontinued

But I would recommend it if you can find one. Only thing that bugs me is no ssh access, but in a way that is probably a good thing as it stops me breaking it!

I would say that if you do use 1tb or larger drives you really want to be using raid 1 (or raid 5, but that needs more drives) cos when one drive fails, that is a lot of data lost!

Re: NAS suggestions

Brian Hunter — Fri May 27, 2011 10:41 am

Author: Brian Hunter

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 10:41 am

Hey Bob, I'm sniffing out NAS solutions myself so I was wondering if Santa brought you anything and what you may have settled on?

If anyone has any other up-to-date suggestions they would be welcome too.

Re: NAS suggestions

bobthebob1234 — Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:30 pm

Author: bobthebob1234

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:30 pm

possibly out of my price range but a nice little server.

Re: NAS suggestions

hecatae — Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:19 pm

Author: hecatae

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:19 pm

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Re: NAS suggestions

bobthebob1234 — Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:23 pm

Author: bobthebob1234

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:23 pm

sweet looks quite nice. thanks

Re: NAS suggestions

drws — Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:25 pm

Author: drws

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:25 pm

I've recently bought a
LG NAS N2R1D
which basically runs linux (2.6.22)
it supports two disk as either raid0, raid1 or two independent disks but you can then setup per-folder mirroring.

The services it runs are
DLNA, TimeMachine Server, ITunes Server, SMB/AFP/FTP/WebDav shares, WWW with MySQL server (not sure what www software) and iSCSI (for the DVD/BluRay drive only).

You can plug your printer in as well. Havn't tried this but wouldn't be surprised to find it was CUPS.

It also has transmission (BT client) installed should you want to do any torrenting.

There is a gigabit nic with usb ports and e-sata ports. Although it doesn't seem to expose attached usb/e-sata attached drives via the network. (It offers a backup service for usb devices)

They come with DVD or BluRay burners, which you can access from your PC or burn data directly from the NAS to a disc.

Its got local user management if you want to share folders to other people.

There are versions that ship with disks in but I got the empty one and added my own 2Tb disks later. (Don't get Western Digital 'Green' disks)

http://www.lg.com/uk/it-products/network-storage/LG-network-storage-N2R1D.jsp

Re: NAS suggestions

bobthebob1234 — Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:13 pm

Author: bobthebob1234

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:13 pm

I tryied doing them into avi, and worked for like half but there are some that just plain refuse to work. What ever i try

Re: NAS suggestions

nordle — Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:12 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:12 pm

Gave up with mkv's as they seem to require some rediculous processing power to keep audio in sync.

Encode into crappy avi or MP4 (using harddup=1 for mencoder)

Have not had audio sync issues for 18mths since doing that.

Re: NAS suggestions

bobthebob1234 — Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:27 pm

Author: bobthebob1234

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:27 pm

awesome, thanks