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the_lion posted:So baby's first Synology DS214se arrived. Do use RAID 1 (a.k.a. mirroring) if you're using two disks. Do make backup copies of your important data. Do store your backups at a different location (e.g. a relative's house) from your main copy. Don't think you'll be safe storing your important photos only on the NAS. RAID is not backup!
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the_lion posted:I'm using a mac, chucking 2x4TB WD reds in it. I've read a little bit, but is there a good do/don't list for using a NAS? Also back up your photos to a cloud service, like Box or something.
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Thanks guys, that helps. I've got a few backups on various drives besides this one, this is more of a fail safe I guess. Is there a good brand I should go for with the UPS? I had a look, APC seemed to come up a lot.
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the_lion posted:Thanks guys, that helps. Synology has a user-reported compatibility list up. Get one with USB so the NAS can track battery levels and gracefully shutdown during an extended outage. The APC BE350G is pretty cheap and should run your unit for at least half an hour. I use a BE550G with my larger Synology and it works great.
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the_lion posted:Is there a good brand I should go for with the UPS? I had a look, APC seemed to come up a lot. I've been satisfied with the Cyberpower "pure sinewave" line. I was previously using a low-end "non-sinewave" UPS and it failed to keep my PC with its fancy active PFC power supply running when switching over to battery, but I haven't had that problem with the Cyberpower unit.
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A UPS is a must-have. The last thing you want is your NAS losing power and then waiting 24+ hours for it to check the disks. Ugh.
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the_lion posted:So baby's first Synology DS214se arrived. If the only copy is on the NAS you haven't protected anything.
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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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Caged posted: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? Mainly if the live drive fails, you can't access anything until you replace it and do a restore.
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Bob Morales posted:A UPS is a must-have. The last thing you want is your NAS losing power and then waiting 24+ hours for it to check the disks. Ugh. Make sure the UPS has a usb port and is supported by your nas software also.
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AlternateAccount posted:Mainly if the live drive fails, you can't access anything until you replace it and do a restore. Also, a backup living in the same machine isn't much of a backup (what if the power supply fails or gets zapped by a storm and nukes both drives, what if the controller goes bezerk and writes garbage to both drives, box catches fire, so on and so forth).
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Google is now selling 1 tb for $10/mo. Is there software that can sort of manage and utilize multiple cloud storage services? Like an automated distributed backup?
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phosdex posted:Google is now selling 1 tb for $10/mo. ![]()
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My brother needs his fileserver in his living room for whatever reason and already bought everything except the case. What's a decent, small case that'll take a MicroATX board and is relatively quiet? Only needs to take 2-4 hard drives tops.
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RMA on Toshiba drive update: Their website is really simple. Enter model to be returned, type in a description of your error, enter credit card number for advance shipment. This shows up 2 days later, new drive in retail packaging. I'll wipe my existing drive before sending it back, but it was painless, and required no approval. Not sure if someone will get back at me for my drive not being broken enough, but we'll see. The URL posted earlier was the only reason I could process this. Google/navigating through Toshiba's own site was frustrating. They don't want people RMA'ing stuff.
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The Gunslinger posted:My brother needs his fileserver in his living room for whatever reason and already bought everything except the case. What's a decent, small case that'll take a MicroATX board and is relatively quiet? Only needs to take 2-4 hard drives tops. Dunno about quiet but 2-4 drives, come on, go for this bad boy. ![]() I can totally see using one of these for my next server iteration.
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I've never liked the front-side offset ports much, especially ones that are 'sideways.' It just seems like you'd smack/break them trying to get into the case. I understand that ports on the front can look like shit (my N36L for example), but really it is a functionality compromise for aesthetics.
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Anybody have any experience with EMC's pricing model? We haven't made it to the stage of the itemized quote yet, but I am interested to know where the money is made. The usual suspect is always support, but I am really curious to the pricing of their fast cache disks.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Dunno about quiet but 2-4 drives, come on, go for this bad boy. I was actually drooling over that earlier for my own purposes but sadly for his it would be complete overkill and I don't see any available yet in Canuckistan. I need something like a Node 304 (well ok slightly larger is fine) that takes a micro ATX board.
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Sickening posted:Anybody have any experience with EMC's pricing model? We haven't made it to the stage of the itemized quote yet, but I am interested to know where the money is made. The usual suspect is always support, but I am really curious to the pricing of their fast cache disks. This is the thread you're looking for. The Gunslinger posted:My brother needs his fileserver in his living room for whatever reason and already bought everything except the case. What's a decent, small case that'll take a MicroATX board and is relatively quiet? Only needs to take 2-4 hard drives tops. BitFenix Prodigy M / Phenom MicroATX are probably the smallest mATX cases that will hold 4 3.5" drives without much fuss. If you want something more traditional in appearance, Silverstone TJ-08E and Fractal Design Define Mini might be worth looking at. As for the Node 804... it does look intriguing, but I was less than impressed with the final product in the case of the Node 304, and honestly this strikes me as a really weird choice that tries to be decent at both for use as a storage box or as a normal PC/server, but makes a lot of compromises in each.
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The Gunslinger posted:I was actually drooling over that earlier for my own purposes but sadly for his it would be complete overkill and I don't see any available yet in Canuckistan. I need something like a Node 304 (well ok slightly larger is fine) that takes a micro ATX board. Seriously, though, you can cram 2-4 drives into almost any case out there, and the quiet part is going to be largely a function of what fans you opt for (including the PSU).
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GokieKS posted:This is the thread you're looking for. If you are doing it for NAS duties look at the Lian li q25. It has 5 hot swap bays. edit: im dumb, q25 is itx. Don Lapre fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Mar 15, 2014 |
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Don Lapre posted:If you are doing it for NAS duties look at the Lian li q25. It has 5 hot swap bays. He's looking for mATX not ITX
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deimos posted:He's looking for mATX not ITX Ohh my bad.
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I kind of expected that there'd be a learning curve but I'm having difficulty with my DS214se. Not surprised. I cannot seem to login to find.synology.com and use the web assistant. It's not finding anything, and the synology assistant isn't finding it either. I can however, connect to it via Finder/ OSX 10.9 just fine to transfer files. I only changed a few things like setting up RAID 1 instead of Synology Hybrid Raid. I did turn a few options on like sharing etc. Unfortunately, I can't figure out the IP address to connect to it - I did some googling but couldn't find out how i get around this. The ds214se is connected straight to my machine via ethernet, if that helps.
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the_lion posted:Unfortunately, I can't figure out the IP address to connect to it - I did some googling but couldn't find out how i get around this. Your router admin page probably displays the ip addresses of all connected devices somewhere. Alternatively a free program like nmap would let you scan the network for it.
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Prince John posted:Your router admin page probably displays the ip addresses of all connected devices somewhere. I don't have access to the router, unfortunately. It's a share house. It's plugged into my machine directly, no router. Got nmap installed, but quite lost as to which command I need in terminal. Is it nmap -sL that I need?
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Does http://diskstation:5000 work in a browser? That's how I connect at home and I sounds like you couldn't have changed the default name yet.
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eddiewalker posted:Does http://diskstation:5000 work in a browser? Unfortunately, nope. Is it possible Little Snitch is blocking it? That's the only thing I could think of that might be blocking it accidentally.
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Are you serving it dhcp if its connected directly to you via Ethernet or did you specify an IP in its settings.
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Don Lapre posted:Are you serving it dhcp if its connected directly to you via Ethernet or did you specify an IP in its settings. I don't remember changing any IP address, so i'm guessing it's dhcp. I don't know much about networking though.
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the_lion posted:I don't have access to the router, unfortunately. It's a share house. It's plugged into my machine directly, no router. Not an expert by any means, but run nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 if the local network is set up to assign a 192.168.1.* IP address. I guess if it's not a network you control then make sure you're not breaking any TOS by running a scan. That should generate results like this: code:
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Prince John posted:Not an expert by any means, but run nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 if the local network is set up to assign a 192.168.1.* IP address. I guess if it's not a network you control then make sure you're not breaking any TOS by running a scan. Thanks guys, all this was quite helpful. I'm still fumbling my way through but I got it in the end. nmap -sP didn't work for whatever reason but I realised I could ping it via terminal by pinging what I thought the nas name was (syn_nas.local) which got me the IP.
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Just another "if this happens again" suggestion, if it's directly connected the easiest way to get the IP is to run Wireshark on the interface and watch for an IP that isn't yours. No command line flags or anything, literally just get your own IP, click start in Wireshark, and pick the other IP. It'll even work if it's in a different subnet.
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the_lion posted:I kind of expected that there'd be a learning curve but I'm having difficulty with my DS214se. Did you use the EZ-Internet feature? That should detect the router and setup rules in it to forward to the Synology. It didn't need login credentials to my dlink router to setup these rules. It should something like the below: ![]()
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Decairn posted:Did you use the EZ-Internet feature? That should detect the router and setup rules in it to forward to the Synology. It didn't need login credentials to my dlink router to setup these rules. It should something like the below: He's not using a router, it doesn't sound like. Just a direct connection to one computer. His Syno can't see the Internet or use a lot of the best features.
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In that case its just another client to the router. No special setup of Synology required. Whatever its possible to connect to on internet from PC should be 100% same for the Synology.
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the_lion posted:It's plugged into my machine directly, no router. If it's literally plugged directly into your machine it probably has a 169.254.x address. Try disabling your wifi before using the whatever autodetector app.
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^ what he said. It's probably got a link-local ip address. Probably faster to find it with arp -a or something too instead of pulling out wireshark.
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the_lion posted:Thanks guys, all this was quite helpful. I'm still fumbling my way through but I got it in the end. If that's the case then you should be able to put "syn_nas.local" directly into your browser and it will browse to your nas without having to care about the IP address thanks to zeroconf. Longinus00 fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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