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wuddup posted:Does anyone know if the HP Gen8 microserver also fits a 5th HD in the optical bay? It looks pretty slim on top in all the pictures I've seen. Not a 3.5" drive (without modding?), as the optical drive is a slim model. You could put a 2.5" in there without much trouble though.
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G-Prime posted:Use case is that I'm planning to build a NAS4Free box and want an APU so I can repurpose the board and processor a year down the road into a low powered gaming rig for my son, when I inevitably upgrade. It should, in theory, be cheaper than buying a comparable CPU and dedicated video card of the same capability.
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knox_harrington posted:Is there much point putting the server OS on a SSD? I have a N40L which is getting full so am going to add some disks. The SAS cable which attaches to the backplane will plug into a M5014 that I have, so then I was going to attach a SSD to the motherboard with another SAS breakout cable, if there's no benefit to a SSD I'll just stick the original HDD in the optical bay instead. I don't think there is much benefit to an SSD for the OS disc. I moved the OS HDD to the ODD bay the other day.
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necrobobsledder posted:In some newer AMD chipsets, they've removed ECC support depending upon manufacturer (AM3+ socket chipsets I believe) so you'll want either an AM3 or Opteron based processor to ensure you'll be able to support ECC with that CPU. The bigger problem I've noticed is that lots of AMD board manufacturers skimp and have bad ECC support, and this is just a by product of AMD motherboards historically having worse OEM QA than if they were Intel chipsets. Honestly, if your budget is low enough that these sorts of considerations are relevant, I'd recommend just not doing ECC RAM and just investing in some offsite backup for your data. Another strategy would be to buy an older Intel CPU that supports ECC and buying a GPU later like a GTX 650 (or equivalent AMD card). Heck, I have an E3-1230 with MicroATX Intel motherboard and case I'd sell for substantially less than you'd be able to buy an AMD system that could fit all your criteria. I'd let the whole system go for about $400 shipped in the US including 8GB RAM and the case is $100+ normally. Honestly, my budget isn't that low. I just set an arbitrary list things I wanted for myself, but I'm more than capable of being flexible. Right now I'm just in the planning phases of things, probably a month or two out from starting any purchases. I really appreciate the offer on that box, by the way, but it'd probably be better suited toward somebody else. I'm looking at building out something on the order of 24TB usable in raid-z2, so I'll probably be getting a rather large case and such unless I go nuts on the budget and buy 6TB drives. At least asking around has gotten me convinced that I should probably just go Intel. I use them exclusively for my other hardware, may as well trust them with my data. ![]()
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Yeah, unfortunately for consumers AMD just isn't very competitive right now. They used to have the advantage of not gimping their lower end chips on features (like ECC and IOMMU / VT-d) but now that X3400 and E3 Xeons are getting damned cheap on the used market, they're a better deal than anything AMD can put together. If you specifically want new hardware, I'd do something like a Supermicro board and a Pentium or Celeron that supports ECC, plus a graphics card as needed.
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wuddup posted:Does anyone know if the HP Gen8 microserver also fits a 5th HD in the optical bay? It looks pretty slim on top in all the pictures I've seen. I couldn't get linux to not kernel panic when I tried, hook it up to a HBA and you're fine.
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Heads up Synology folks. A cryptolocker variant is going after your shit. http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=88716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128521
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Moey posted:Heads up Synology folks. A cryptolocker variant is going after your shit. What port does it go through? How is it getting in?
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Don Lapre posted:What port does it go through? How is it getting in?
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bizwank posted:No one seems to know yet, official response is still "make sure you're on the latest DSM version and close all external ports". Other than transmission/sickbeard/sabnzbd i only have port 5000 open. Ill just close it for now. How did minerd get in?
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Don Lapre posted:Other than transmission/sickbeard/sabnzbd i only have port 5000 open. Ill just close it for now. Minerd: bundled in free software installers, toolbars, etc on the Windows side of things, and via standard rootkits otherwise. Nothing that remarkable about it really.
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The decision to make my 3TB external into an internal and get a 2TB portable for archival/backup was great. Not having an external with a power and USB cable flopping around is amazing. I just wish someone had told me beforehand that the SATA/USB adapter chip was emulating 512 byte sectors. That would have saved me about 4 hours of backing up stuff. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Synology is saying that the "synolocker" is only affecting older versions of the DSM. Why you would not update your DSM is beyond me. http://www.synology.com/en-us/company/news/article/470 There's been way too much of this going on for me to be comfortable with the security of Synology. I have to expose my box to the web but dammit if I haven't taken every other precaution in order to protect it.
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suddenlyissoon posted:Synology is saying that the "synolocker" is only affecting older versions of the DSM. Why you would not update your DSM is beyond me. Why does it not automatically apply critical security updates? I mean, the type of consumer that would buy a device like a Synology is just gonna set it up and then forget about it.
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Mmmmmhhhokay. My diskstation was apparently stuck on 4.2 and kept suggesting it was up to date. That's one of the symptoms they suggest powering down/calling support for. Found the necessary intermediary update to 4.3 through Google (on a Synology server, thank god), now updating to 5.0. All seems to work. Thanks for the kick in the arse.
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A bit of a random question here, but has anyone had speed issues with drives taken out of USB enclosures? Background: Ive got an N40L which I wanted to add another drive to. It has 3 drives already and I was going to add another 3tb to fill it up. I ordered one, and it was DOA. Thinking I needed one in a hurry, I brought one locally and all that was available was a Seagate USB 3 external drive. No problems I thought, so I gave it a quick test then removed the drive from the enclosure, its a ST300DM001 1E166-570. I put it into the N40, a fresh install of ubuntu 14.04 and setup a raid 5 array. It took about 12 hours to initialise, but its been long time since I made a big array so didnt think much of it. When I came to use it, it was useless, read speeds were OK, 100+mb/s, but writes were below 10mb/s. A bit of researching and I thought it might be due to me not partitioning drives properly for 4k sectors, so re-partition, rebuild (another overnighter) and test again. Still rubbish, and I noticed tons of disk activity (seeking) while it was doing the really slow writes. Tried again, this time just the ex-usb drive and one other, still the same. Tried just writing directly to the ex-usb drive and found the problem - 4mb/s! Moved the drive into different slots, still the same. Connected the drive with the USB board and it goes back to normal usb2 speeds, no excessive seeking. Tested again in the N40, 4mb/s & loads of seeking. One of the other drives is also a ST300DM001 (but a different part number) but it has none of the problems and is about 10% faster on reads than the ex-usb drive. Ive tried it with the USB board with similar (faster) results. So the question is: Is there some difference between drives that go in USB enclosures and bare drives - can I fix this USB one Ive got?
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grunthaas posted:So the question is: Is there some difference between drives that go in USB enclosures and bare drives - can I fix this USB one Ive got? This is the hard drive inside: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16822148736 In short: no.
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Why does GEOM_ELI show "Encryption: AES-XTS 256, Crypto: software" when I create a new volume, despite specifically NOT checking the encryption box?
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Why does GEOM_ELI show "Encryption: AES-XTS 256, Crypto: software" when I create a new volume, despite specifically NOT checking the encryption box? What distro/version?
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Current release.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Why does GEOM_ELI show "Encryption: AES-XTS 256, Crypto: software" when I create a new volume, despite specifically NOT checking the encryption box? Sure that's not for encrypted swap?
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I apologise in advance if this gets asked a lot, but the OP hasn't been updated in 2 years and I couldn't see anything relevant in the last couple of pages: My 2TB buffalo box died a while back and I'm looking for a cheap replacement NAS for media storage - I don't care too much about snazzy features, here's what I'm after: Must haves:
Nice to haves, in rough order of preference:
Can anyone offer any suggestions? I'm in the UK if that matters.
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How cheap is cheap
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I don't want to pay for features I won't use, I only want something basic (other than my must haves, of course). Looking around a few component sites it seems like I'll need to spend £100-200 including the drive, but I can go higher if I need to. I wouldn't want to spend an extra £50+ just to get something from my nice to have list though.
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Synology has the 112j and the ds214se that would fit your budget
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Thanks, had a look at these - what's the software like? For the same price as the empty enclosure I could get the updated version of my old Buffalo NAS with a 3TB drive included. I'm loathe to go for that manufacturer again though, because the software was pretty horrible, and wasn't well supported. e: that is to say the UI was incredibly laggy, and when it failed I had to download an unsupported tool to tell me that it was actually just the drive that had died, rendering the unit entirely inoperable until it was replaced, despite nothing being wrong with the rest of the hardware. ..btt fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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It is very highly regarded. Take a look at it, DSM. http://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/
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..btt posted:Thanks, had a look at these - what's the software like? For the same price as the empty enclosure I could get the updated version of my old Buffalo NAS with a 3TB drive included. I'm loathe to go for that manufacturer again though, because the software was pretty horrible, and wasn't well supported. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAaP-SWGG7s#t=222s (never mind the audio) It's smooth enough for me and won't likely leave you in the dark about what's going wrong, should it ever. If you're going to serve stuff to multiple users at once, you need more cpu power, but everything you listed for one user it does fine. e: also good online help. Flipperwaldt fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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Looks well worth the premium, thanks. Any drive suggestions? Is it just whatever or are there manufacturers to avoid at the moment?
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You dont need to watch a video. They have a live working demo of their software http://www.synology.com/en-global/products/dsm_livedemo
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..btt posted:Looks well worth the premium, thanks. Any drive suggestions? Is it just whatever or are there manufacturers to avoid at the moment? Usually any NAS-rated drive will work fine. Get what's cheapest for your size.
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Don Lapre posted:You dont need to watch a video. They have a live working demo of their software
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I've got a LSI SAS1068E that only seems to be recognizing drives plugged into a fanout cable on one of its two ports. The OS doesn't recognize any drives, and if I go into the BIOS for the card and go to SAS Topology it doesn't show anything other than four drives. (screenshot) I've tried two different cables. Is this a bad card or is there a configuration I'm missing somewhere?
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I'd try wiping / reflashing the firmware for shits and grins but that sounds like a bum card to me. You use yours in IT mode, right? I don't think there's much in the way of configuration, especially not that would knock out a whole port.
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Does anyone have a recommendation for what the cheapest 4 bad Synology box that can reliably do Plex transcoding is please?
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Anjow posted:Does anyone have a recommendation for what the cheapest 4 bad Synology box that can reliably do Plex transcoding is please? I assume you meant 4-bay - DS415play will be the current solution. It should retail for somewhere in the $500 - $550 range, it looks like it's going for somewhere north of $600 at the moment - this should ease when adequate stock comes in. The DS212+ might work, but the 415play is the better HD transcoding solution, and the MSRP is lower, as well. I wouldn't trust any of the non-intel 4-bay platforms to do transcoding. Synology is not cheap, but it is good. If these are priced out of your range, your only option will be to either move to another playback platform (WD Live), or hack together a plex server from cheaper PC parts.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I'd try wiping / reflashing the firmware for shits and grins but that sounds like a bum card to me. You use yours in IT mode, right? I don't think there's much in the way of configuration, especially not that would knock out a whole port. Yeah, I use IT mode. Anyway, a reflash didn't do anything. I'm pretty sure this port worked at one point but I guess it gave up the ghost at some point during the time when I didn't have anything plugged in to it. Thanks.
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Civil posted:I assume you meant 4-bay - DS415play will be the current solution. It should retail for somewhere in the $500 - $550 range, it looks like it's going for somewhere north of $600 at the moment - this should ease when adequate stock comes in. No this is exactly what I'm looking for, thanks. It's also the sort of price I was hoping for too. I'm aware it's more expensive than other things, but looking at how their storage solution works it's what I am after. A colleague just got one of the more expensive ones and the interface looks really nice too.
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The play models may not transcode Plex. It may only do synology apps.
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..btt posted:I apologise in advance if this gets asked a lot, but the OP hasn't been updated in 2 years and I couldn't see anything relevant in the last couple of pages: Don Lapre posted:Synology has the 112j and the ds214se that would fit your budget Coincidentally, my requirements were very similar to ..bt's, so he's saved me typing it all up. Just ordered the DS214SE and a 2TB. Not sure if I want to RAID1 it at some point in the future, or use the extra bay for increased capacity, I shall ponder on that (back up will be on another HDD connected to my PC, plus a removeable external HDD off the NAS and an off-site cloud, so it doesn't really seem necessary) If I stick a TP-Link TL-WN822N onto it, will it work happily via wifi? Thanks for the info above - much appreciated.
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