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SilentGeek
Jul 24, 2011



Has anyone here ever had a problem with freeNAS 8 services refusing to start or stop? I noticed yesterday that I couldn't enter my plugin jail at all after I changed some permissions for a mount point so I tried to restart the service. Now all of my services are stuck where they were at the time. Can't start or stop any of them. Do I need to do a factory reset or something to fix this?

yomisei
Mar 18, 2011


Little update from the power saving fanatic: I replaced the Pentium G630T with a Celeron G1610 and the Cougar A400 with a LC-Power LC7300. Power usage went down from 29.5W/43W to 23.5W/36.5W with disks spun down / up, reading. The PSU did 5W, the G1610 1W of that. Not only is the Celeron twice as cheap as the G630T, it's also a little bit more efficient and powerful. So is the LC7300, cheaper and consumes less power. Without the 4x3TB WD Red the system used 17W in idle, that's 6.5W for 4 spun down Reds and 2 120mm fans at ~20% speed. The rest of that should be consumed by the ASRock B75 Pro3-M.

Time to ebay the rest off

Rukus
Mar 13, 2007

Hmph.


SilentGeek posted:

Has anyone here ever had a problem with freeNAS 8 services refusing to start or stop? I noticed yesterday that I couldn't enter my plugin jail at all after I changed some permissions for a mount point so I tried to restart the service. Now all of my services are stuck where they were at the time. Can't start or stop any of them. Do I need to do a factory reset or something to fix this?

Try restarting FreeNAS. When I was playing around with 8 in a virtual machine services were refusing to start as well. After giving it a restart it allowed services to be enabled.

SilentGeek
Jul 24, 2011



Sorry. I should have mentioned that I've already tried rebooting it a couple of times and it still refuses to alter the state of the services.

LRADIKAL
Jun 10, 2001

A Very Useful Person



Fun Shoe

I see a lot of talk in the last few pages of this thread about freeNAS and other roll your own setups. What's the best, cheapest thing for running a drive or two that'll serve NFS? I really have to spend 150+ just for a driveless tool? Can they torrent effectively?

I just want to be able to turn off my PC sometimes.

yomisei
Mar 18, 2011


Jago posted:

I see a lot of talk in the last few pages of this thread about freeNAS and other roll your own setups. What's the best, cheapest thing for running a drive or two that'll serve NFS? I really have to spend 150+ just for a driveless tool? Can they torrent effectively?

I just want to be able to turn off my PC sometimes.

Look around for the HP N40L, it's the most easy and cheapest way to get a NAS rolling. FreeNAS is easy to setup and can fulfill all your torrenting needs as it already packs plugins for this purpose.

jeeves
May 27, 2001

Deranged Psychopathic
Butler Extraordinaire


I'm trying to update my FreeNAS 8.1 to 8.3, and apparently their web interface update is not working. What is the easiest way to do a non-web-portal update, especially if I don't have an optical drive? Copy the ISO contents to a thumb drive then boot off of the thumb? Do I need to do anything special to make the thumb drive bootable like I would with a Windows OS install thumb drive image?

SilentGeek
Jul 24, 2011



After rebooting my NAS yet again my services are suddenly able to change. I have no idea what the issue was. The new problem is that none of my plugins work anymore unless I reinstall them. Not a major problem but annoying nonetheless. Hopefully I don't run into this again because I still have no idea what the original problem was.

DrDork
Dec 29, 2003
commanding officer of the Army of Dorkness

jeeves posted:

I'm trying to update my FreeNAS 8.1 to 8.3, and apparently their web interface update is not working. What is the easiest way to do a non-web-portal update, especially if I don't have an optical drive? Copy the ISO contents to a thumb drive then boot off of the thumb? Do I need to do anything special to make the thumb drive bootable like I would with a Windows OS install thumb drive image?
Right off the FreeNAS website, man: http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Burning_an_IMG_File

LRADIKAL
Jun 10, 2001

A Very Useful Person



Fun Shoe

yomisei posted:

Look around for the HP N40L, it's the most easy and cheapest way to get a NAS rolling. FreeNAS is easy to setup and can fulfill all your torrenting needs as it already packs plugins for this purpose.

That's way more than I want to spend. Torrenting is not a necessary thing. What about shits like this? http://www.amazon.com/Synology-Disk...ttached+storage

Let me back up a little.

Here are my requirements:

Can stream video to one system at a time (two seems easy enough, but not strictly necessary)
Low Power
not a piece of shit
2 drives or more
small and quiet

I just want to have a box that I can put my videos on. If it can handle torrents, awesome. It does not have to saturate my gigabit network by any means

Longinus00
Dec 29, 2005
Ur-Quan

Jago posted:

That's way more than I want to spend. Torrenting is not a necessary thing. What about shits like this? http://www.amazon.com/Synology-Disk...ttached+storage

Let me back up a little.

Here are my requirements:

Can stream video to one system at a time (two seems easy enough, but not strictly necessary)
Low Power
not a piece of shit
2 drives or more
small and quiet

I just want to have a box that I can put my videos on. If it can handle torrents, awesome. It does not have to saturate my gigabit network by any means

That HP is actually on the cheap side of 4 bay NAS units (in the US) and is less shitty than things costing twice as much. You're only going to have the budget for 2 bay units unless you have an extra computer to convert into a NAS (and that is unlikely to be either small, quiet, or low power unless you hook external drives to a laptop or something).

Longinus00 fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Feb 9, 2013

jeeves
May 27, 2001

Deranged Psychopathic
Butler Extraordinaire



I always forget they have a wiki, GOSH.

Also thanks.

siig
Apr 4, 2005

Being nice is the shit ...

I recently migrated my iTunes library to a Lacie consumer NAS. Since then, Windows 8 seems to think that all the files have had their owner changed to "Unix User\nobody". Has anybody run into that before? What does it mean?

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010



Soiled Meat

Got the following e-mail from my boss this morning-

quote:

Hi All

I want to get our data storage (group data shares) and data backups more organized.

I want to hear from you all on Wednesday about this.

Basically, we have data all over the place and we need to have a central location for file swapping/storage (similar to group data share at the moment).

I also want a central place where the data on your personal computers is backed up.

To help make this happen, I am looking at a 15-20 Tb file server for the lab.

Thanks
(Boss)

I'm in a university graduate research lab with ~8 people and the boss wants to revamp and expand our group data storage. Based on this, I'm guessing he wants a bigger server for all the group's data and wants to have everyone's computer (and all the various computers hooked up to instruments in the lab) connected to it. I'm not sure why he's asking all of us since we have a pretty good IT department here and he'll probably just go through them, but anything I should tell him about or direct him towards? I know nothing about this sort of thing.

movax
Aug 30, 2008



C-Euro posted:

Got the following e-mail from my boss this morning-


I'm in a university graduate research lab with ~8 people and the boss wants to revamp and expand our group data storage. Based on this, I'm guessing he wants a bigger server for all the group's data and wants to have everyone's computer (and all the various computers hooked up to instruments in the lab) connected to it. I'm not sure why he's asking all of us since we have a pretty good IT department here and he'll probably just go through them, but anything I should tell him about or direct him towards? I know nothing about this sort of thing.

If you have an (good) IT dept and don't suffer from some weird political issue, I'd just pawn this off to them, especially if the data is super critical.

If the IT dept blows and it's your money to spend, I'm always partial (still) to a ZFS-based NAS under a Solaris flavor. There are plenty of tutorials on getting up and running on that, as well on BSD flavors (FreeNAS, etc) that are essentially appliances.

necrobobsledder
Mar 21, 2005
Lay down your soul to the gods rock 'n roll

Nap Ghost

I'm going to assume you didn't head to the SAN megathread because your budget is presumably small and you're going to ask for the cheapest possible solution that won't make you guys cry tears of blood in the end when experimental data goes poof and PhD theses with it.

Something similar to what the guys at No Support Linux Hosting built should work for your case and I'd make a duplicate system just for backing up snapshots. This could be done with either LVM + MDRAID on Linux or ZFS as the file system implementation layer. Note that ZFS will use a good deal more RAM than LVM and that almost all of the point of it is to constantly perform checksums of your data to protect against bit rot.

For backing up personal data, I might almost recommend an offsite backup service for businesses like Mozy instead of hosting it yourself onsite and risk losing both personal backups as well as experiment / business data in the same hypothetical electrical fire started by mice.

Giant Metal Robot
Jun 14, 2005




Taco Defender

C-Euro posted:

Got the following e-mail from my boss this morning-


I'm in a university graduate research lab with ~8 people and the boss wants to revamp and expand our group data storage. Based on this, I'm guessing he wants a bigger server for all the group's data and wants to have everyone's computer (and all the various computers hooked up to instruments in the lab) connected to it. I'm not sure why he's asking all of us since we have a pretty good IT department here and he'll probably just go through them, but anything I should tell him about or direct him towards? I know nothing about this sort of thing.

Since it's out of a university research lab, I wouldn't be surprised if there were concerns about Data Management Plans that triggered this email.

Absolutely talk to department IT, because lab managed storage tends to be lower quality than IT-managed. Also, hopefully you have a lab manager that can handle curating data for 8 different people, which means setting retention policies and file-naming conventions. If this storage just becomes a dumping ground, it will fill up with meaningless data faster than you'd expect. Finally, find out if you have a librarian attached to your department that could hook you into campus wide data management strategies or help advise you on metadata management.

Edit: Here's a link to the larger NSF DMP initiative. http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp

Giant Metal Robot fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Feb 11, 2013

Bob Morales
Aug 18, 2006

I love the succulent taste of cop boots

Got our Mecury Elite Pro Qx2 today





Decent little box I guess. Replacing a Promise SmartStor. It'd be really nice if this thing had USB 3.0 though...

evensevenone
May 12, 2001
Glass is a solid.

C-Euro posted:

Got the following e-mail from my boss this morning-


I'm in a university graduate research lab with ~8 people and the boss wants to revamp and expand our group data storage. Based on this, I'm guessing he wants a bigger server for all the group's data and wants to have everyone's computer (and all the various computers hooked up to instruments in the lab) connected to it. I'm not sure why he's asking all of us since we have a pretty good IT department here and he'll probably just go through them, but anything I should tell him about or direct him towards? I know nothing about this sort of thing.

I'd guessing he's more interested in your needs and how you would use it at an organizational level, as opposed to expecting you to pick out hardware.

Starting to use shared storage requires some commitment from the team to keep things in order and make sure it doesn't just turn into a giant mess where nobody can find anything, as well as just to make sure everyone actually uses it.

This is especially true if you have stuff like large amounts of science data where there isn't an off-the-shelf collaboration/organization/version control solution.

Incessant Excess
Aug 15, 2005

Cause of glitch:
Pretentiousness


I'm looking into Flexraid right now since it's been talked about favorably on the previous page and I just want to make sure I understand it correctly. Can someone explain to me how the parity data protection works when you have a couple different sized HDDs in the storage pool? If I have say 2x 750GB HDDs and 1x 2TB HDDs, I get that you'd be ok if one of the 750GB drives fails, but if the 2TB drive went bust you'd be screwed wouldn't you?

Also, is Flexraid easy to use/figure out in general? I'm thinking about getting a lil homeserver going and I'm wondering if the setup I got in my head so far (N40L, WHS2011, Flexraid) is biting off more than I can chew.

DrDork
Dec 29, 2003
commanding officer of the Army of Dorkness

While the exact method of parity distribution varies depending on what software is being used, in most cases you'll "lose" the biggest drive for parity use--so with 2x750GB and 1x2TB, that 2TB drive would be "lost" to parity and you'd end up with only 1.5TB of usable space. That way you can have any of the drives die and still be ok.

Mr Crucial
Oct 28, 2005
What's new pussycat?

Biggest Faggot Ever posted:

I'm looking into Flexraid right now since it's been talked about favorably on the previous page and I just want to make sure I understand it correctly. Can someone explain to me how the parity data protection works when you have a couple different sized HDDs in the storage pool? If I have say 2x 750GB HDDs and 1x 2TB HDDs, I get that you'd be ok if one of the 750GB drives fails, but if the 2TB drive went bust you'd be screwed wouldn't you?

You'd have to set the drives up as follows (DRU means 'data drive' PPU means 'parity drive'):

DRU - 750Gb
DRU - 750Gb

PPU - 2Tb

Total usable space: 1.5Tb

You have to use one of your biggest drives as the parity drive in order to have enough protection for all the other drives. The 'missing' 1.25Tb on the 750Gb drives is treated almost like empty space (but unusable). You could lose the 2Tb PPU in this scenario and still recover it fine, all you would need to do is add another drive (at least 750Gb) and recalc the parity.

Mr Crucial fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Feb 13, 2013

The Gunslinger
Jul 24, 2004

Do not forget the face of your father.

Fun Shoe

Biggest Faggot Ever posted:

I'm looking into Flexraid right now since it's been talked about favorably on the previous page and I just want to make sure I understand it correctly. Can someone explain to me how the parity data protection works when you have a couple different sized HDDs in the storage pool? If I have say 2x 750GB HDDs and 1x 2TB HDDs, I get that you'd be ok if one of the 750GB drives fails, but if the 2TB drive went bust you'd be screwed wouldn't you?

Also, is Flexraid easy to use/figure out in general? I'm thinking about getting a lil homeserver going and I'm wondering if the setup I got in my head so far (N40L, WHS2011, Flexraid) is biting off more than I can chew.

The Flexraid wiki has a good breakdown for most of the basics. Your parity unit needs to be at least as large as your largest data unit. So if you have a 2TB data drive and data 3x150GB drives, your parity unit should still be a 2TB drive. The wiki isn't great about suggesting up an exclusion list for small files like NFOs and whatnot but theres a few forum posts about it and the regex is easy enough to figure out.

By default in cruise control mode it will go with power saving by filling up each drive in a pool one at a time, you need to change that setting if you don't like it or just want the files spread out. The interface takes a little getting used to and I wish it would auto-refresh properly, sometimes you still need to manually hit it. Other than that it's pretty straight forward and it should auto-install the file system drivers and whanot already. Getting the scheduling setup and putting in your gmail settings takes a few minutes. I use snapshot mode and only update once a week, verify once a month since most of my setup is large video files. You should also disable shadow copy and all that background Windows junk, the wiki covers most of it and I think the install does some of it now too IIRC.

If you need any help feel free to ask, you will be up and going in 10-15 minutes in most cases and it's not really difficult.

The Gunslinger fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Feb 13, 2013

Longinus00
Dec 29, 2005
Ur-Quan

Biggest Faggot Ever posted:

I'm looking into Flexraid right now since it's been talked about favorably on the previous page and I just want to make sure I understand it correctly. Can someone explain to me how the parity data protection works when you have a couple different sized HDDs in the storage pool? If I have say 2x 750GB HDDs and 1x 2TB HDDs, I get that you'd be ok if one of the 750GB drives fails, but if the 2TB drive went bust you'd be screwed wouldn't you?

Also, is Flexraid easy to use/figure out in general? I'm thinking about getting a lil homeserver going and I'm wondering if the setup I got in my head so far (N40L, WHS2011, Flexraid) is biting off more than I can chew.

Flexraid is basically an unstriped raid 4. As such your data protection is the same as in a raid 5, you can lose any disk and still have everything work but lose a second before you can replace the first and things get ugly.

adorai
Nov 2, 2002

10/27/04 Never forget

Grimey Drawer

Anyone know where I can get a standalone mini-itx case like this (preferably with 6 sata bays). Seems like a reasonably simple hot swap case.

bsmack
Dec 12, 2003


Welp, I've been using a Sans DIgital 4 bay enclosure (RAID 5) which came with a RocketRaid 622 eSATA card. It was working alright for a bit, but then inexplicably caused Windows 8 to bluescreen. I tried formatting my OS drive, and without fail whenever it tries to access the drives it bluescreens. I plan on trying a few things (different OS, possibly rebuilding the array), but I'm pretty much calling it a wash and planning to start over.

I want to do my next media server correctly. I would like something simple with at least 5 bays this go around, so the QNAP and Drobo offerings are attractive to me. I'm willing to spend in that price range ($700-$900) as long as the value is there. If there is anything cheaper that can do what these enclosures can do then I would love to hear it. I've been reading this thread a ton over the past few days but a lot of the older stuff (Drobo being slow) I've found to be outdated.

FYI, this is only for my personal use. It will be streaming movies to various players around my house.

yomisei
Mar 18, 2011


bsmack posted:

Welp, I've been using a Sans DIgital 4 bay enclosure (RAID 5) which came with a RocketRaid 622 eSATA card. It was working alright for a bit, but then inexplicably caused Windows 8 to bluescreen. I tried formatting my OS drive, and without fail whenever it tries to access the drives it bluescreens. I plan on trying a few things (different OS, possibly rebuilding the array), but I'm pretty much calling it a wash and planning to start over.

I want to do my next media server correctly. I would like something simple with at least 5 bays this go around, so the QNAP and Drobo offerings are attractive to me. I'm willing to spend in that price range ($700-$900) as long as the value is there. If there is anything cheaper that can do what these enclosures can do then I would love to hear it. I've been reading this thread a ton over the past few days but a lot of the older stuff (Drobo being slow) I've found to be outdated.

FYI, this is only for my personal use. It will be streaming movies to various players around my house.

There is always something more powerful and less expensive waiting for you in a self-built server than taking one of the QNAP/Synology/Drobo boxes. All it requires you is to be willing to find a case you like or need and to put some components together. The advantages are a stronger cpu, more ram, more space in the case (depending what you pick), and pcie slots for future upgrades like thunderbolt when it becomes attractive to the public instead of only the apple mob. It also comes at a 1/2 to 1/3 price than a 8-bay box.

On the side of components I recommend the Celeron G1610 and ASRock B75 Pro3-M, 8-16GB RAM, quality PSU like LC-Power LC7300 or Sea Sonic G-Series 360W. The Asrock deliers 8 working Sata ports and a good Realtek NIC while the Celeron is not only the cheapest option available but is quite powerful and way more than enough for simple streaming purposes (gets rated like 70% of a Q6600 performance). If you want video transcoding on your machine you need to step up to a Core i3-3220 to get a HD Graphics 2500 with hardware capability for this. To get more network bandwidth there's also always the ebay option of a HP NC360T and Intel Pro/1000 Dual for link aggregation. One thing I want to stress out is that a quality low power PSU is worth it in what this system actually pulls (17W for the G1610 + ASRock + 16GB RAM for me on a LC7300).

The only thing left is what you pick for a case. If you have space you can safely pick a midi-tower to stow away in a corner. I've found that cubed cases similar to the size of the commercial NAS boxes often come at a higher price than a simple tower. Throw in a USB stick with FreeNAS, slap ZFS raid-z1/2 on your harddrives and stream away.

bsmack
Dec 12, 2003


Right now, it actually wouldn't hurt to upgrade my desktop so it would probably make sense to just use those parts (i7 920, 12 GB RAM, forget which mobo but it's been stable and has 6 SATA ports).

So now I'm tasked with finding a nice case with easy access to hard drives that is reasonably sized and also figuring out which interface to use. Is there any possible way I can connect an eSATA/USB3 cable from this file server to my desktop?

Moey
Oct 22, 2010

I LIKE TO MOVE IT


adorai posted:

Anyone know where I can get a standalone mini-itx case like this (preferably with 6 sata bays). Seems like a reasonably simple hot swap case.

How about the Lian Li PC-Q25?

Doesn't use sleds but at least has a backplane for 5 drives. It was just on sale yesterday for like $80 at Newegg.

Incessant Excess
Aug 15, 2005

Cause of glitch:
Pretentiousness


Thanks for the Flexraid advice guys, how it works seems really obvious now but I just couldn't put it together at the time.

Gism0
Mar 20, 2003

huuuh?

Pro-Tip for anyone running Netatalk on Linux..

I've been using Netatalk 2.x for months (Installed via apt-get on Ubuntu 12.10) and was getting annoyed at it taking 20+ seconds to open a share, so today I decided to upgrade to the latest Netatalk via Git (3.x) and now everything is super fast! Hooray!

Master Stur
Jun 13, 2008

chasin' tail


Well I'm glad I ended up giving FreeNAS 8.3 a go in the end. Maybe I'm just terrible at configuring zfs for NexentaStor but I've got an NFS share deduplicating at 80MB/s compared to the 5-15 I was getting. The block size has to stay at 128K otherwise the speed tanks to 25-30MB/s which is still acceptable but the majority of our VMs do not change at all so we see a 95-99% or greater dedup rate even at 128K.

So all that's left is figuring out the best way to replicate across a slow WAN connection, literally 1.5mbps. We currently have rsync configured for backing up a remote site's VMs to us, which is great because rsync can be paused and stopped. However, I'm not sure if it's zfs dedup "aware" or if it plays nice with already deduped data. In my head I imagine there's no problem since it's a block-level process.

Would zfs replicate using incremental snapshots be a better option given that ultimately both ends will be using zfs and deduped volumes? From what I've read they should be almost functionally identical, but I couldn't find a good answer on how zfs replicate would handle interruptions in the process. Say I had a weekly backup on sunday to be replicated over the WAN but only wanted to do it during overnight hours, would it continue to only write unique data or if I stop the process before it's completed do I have to start over?

adorai
Nov 2, 2002

10/27/04 Never forget

Grimey Drawer

Master Stur posted:

Would zfs replicate using incremental snapshots be a better option given that ultimately both ends will be using zfs and deduped volumes? From what I've read they should be almost functionally identical, but I couldn't find a good answer on how zfs replicate would handle interruptions in the process. Say I had a weekly backup on sunday to be replicated over the WAN but only wanted to do it during overnight hours, would it continue to only write unique data or if I stop the process before it's completed do I have to start over?
I would do zfs incrementals and use qos to put the replication into a smaller bucket that can burst higher. This also allows you to compress as you send.

wheez the roux
Aug 2, 2004
THEY SHOULD'VE GIVEN IT TO LYNCH

Death to the Seahawks. Death to Seahawks posters.

So, I want to get a 2-bay NAS with WD Red drives for a more permanent storage solution, because I don't feel at all comfortable having my Passport drives plugged into my Airport Extreme for long term usage. I've narrowed it down to these two:

Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo 2-Bay Diskless ($105)
http://www.amazon.com/BUFFALO-LinkS.../dp/B0048TWIX6/

Synology DiskStation 2-Bay Diskless ($200)
http://www.amazon.com/Synology-Disk.../dp/B005YW7OLM/

I'm leaning towards the Buffalo because of the price, is that my best bet or is the Synology worth the extra $95? Or is there another one I'm missing entirely that I should pick up? My plan is to do 2x2TB WD Red drives in RAID 1.

Final question: Is it possible, with 2x2TB drives in RAID 1, to have 256GB allocated for Time Machine backup of my rMBP, and the other ~1744GB free for general file storage?

e: addendum question -- If I only get one of the 2TB drives at first, can I get the second one and put it into RAID1 later? Or does RAID have to be configured at the outset?

wheez the roux fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Feb 17, 2013

Trump
Jul 16, 2003

Cute

I'm planning on buying a QNAP 412 to use as a media server in my new apartment. I'm itching to buy it now so I can begin transferring all my stuff and play around with it a little bit, but I don't have access to the router where I live. Is it possible to just hook it up via USB and use it as a kind of external HD untill I move?

nickhimself
Jul 16, 2007

I GIVE YOU MY INFO YOU LOG IN AND PUT IN BUILD I PAY YOU 3 BLESSINGS


wheez the roux posted:

So, I want to get a 2-bay NAS with WD Red drives for a more permanent storage solution, because I don't feel at all comfortable having my Passport drives plugged into my Airport Extreme for long term usage. I've narrowed it down to these two:

Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo 2-Bay Diskless ($105)
http://www.amazon.com/BUFFALO-LinkS.../dp/B0048TWIX6/

Synology DiskStation 2-Bay Diskless ($200)
http://www.amazon.com/Synology-Disk.../dp/B005YW7OLM/

I'm leaning towards the Buffalo because of the price, is that my best bet or is the Synology worth the extra $95? Or is there another one I'm missing entirely that I should pick up? My plan is to do 2x2TB WD Red drives in RAID 1.

Final question: Is it possible, with 2x2TB drives in RAID 1, to have 256GB allocated for Time Machine backup of my rMBP, and the other ~1744GB free for general file storage?

e: addendum question -- If I only get one of the 2TB drives at first, can I get the second one and put it into RAID1 later? Or does RAID have to be configured at the outset?

I ordered that exact Synology yesterday, should be here Thursday I believe. I really hope it's easy to set up and use because I've literally never owned a NAS before.

Don Lapre
Mar 28, 2001

If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.


nickhimself posted:

I ordered that exact Synology yesterday, should be here Thursday I believe. I really hope it's easy to set up and use because I've literally never owned a NAS before.

Synologys are excellent. The UI is basically a little GUI OS with windows and shit.

nickhimself
Jul 16, 2007

I GIVE YOU MY INFO YOU LOG IN AND PUT IN BUILD I PAY YOU 3 BLESSINGS


So setup and general use should be pretty easy? To be honest, seeing all of the various software in the OP made me a little worried about how much setup this device will actually require before it's up and hosting media on my network.

sleepy gary
Jan 11, 2006



nickhimself posted:

So setup and general use should be pretty easy? To be honest, seeing all of the various software in the OP made me a little worried about how much setup this device will actually require before it's up and hosting media on my network.

If you are a neurotypical, you will be really happy with how everything is working within 1 hour (from sealed box to watching your animes over the network). Synology makes good stuff.

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

Represent!

Have the utility for me is a fileserver, have the utility is a funserver. I'm always tweaking shit and stuff, a Synology would be bothersomely easy. I apparently am not neurotypical, but I am probably not unusual in this thread

If you are looking for a NAS appliance, you should be very pleased.

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