Questions tagged [nas]
Network-attached storage (NAS) is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous clients.
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How do I connect VLC to a known DLNA server?
I have VLC on my Mac and would like to connect to a DLNA server on my LAN but the server isn't showing up in VLC's UPnP auto-discovery UI. Given the IP address of the server how can I point VLC to it ...
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How can I find the IP address of a mapped Network drive in Windows 10?
How can I find the IP address of a mapped Network drive in Windows 10?
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Permanently map a network drive on Mac OS X Leopard
I want to have a mapped drive in Mac OS X which points to my NAS - however I've found that I have to do it after every single reboot.
I'm a Mac noob, so would like to just have the drive mapped at ...
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What's the point of having a RAID 1 configuration over incremental backups to a secondary drive?
I have a synology NAS and I don't understand the point of RAID 1 system.
Why bother having a mirror? If I delete a file by accident it's deleted on both drives.
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Is ZFS and RAID-Z worth using in home made NAS (freeNAS for example)
Features of ZFS and RAID-Z look vary promising. Looks like it is a perfect FS for home NAS solutions, poor man's Drobo things and alike.
Are there any drawbacks I should be aware of?
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How do I build a DIY NAS?
I'm looking for good, detailed instructions on how to build a DIY NAS (Network Access Storage). I'm planning on doing it cheap (old PC config + open source software). But not too cheap either. I'm ok ...
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How is a NAS different from a SAN?
I've been doing research into NAS and SAN for a situation at work, and I am struggling to workout the difference between the two on a corporate level.
Is a NAS basically just a small SAN? Or are SANs ...
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What are my options for a multi-Terabyte home NAS? [closed]
I've got alot of DVDs and have been slowly ripping, encoding, and tagging them and I've nearly filled my WD MyBook 1TB. I'm estimating that I've got about 1.5 or 2Tb to go to complete my current ...
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SSH with no password (passwordless) on Synology DSM 5 as other (non-root) user
I'm trying to ssh into my Synology disk station without a password (public key authentication), but as non-root.
When I try to ssh as root without password, it works. Following the exact same steps ...
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Any recommendations on a NAS for a home-super-user? [closed]
Can anyone recommend a good NAS for use in a home-server environment? I would request at least 2, preferably 4 disks, and I am most interested in good to excellent throughput for file-server and ...
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Shrink RAID by removing a disk?
I have a Synology NAS with 12 bays. Initially, we decided to allocate all 12 disks for a single RAID-6 volume, but now we would like to shrink the volume to use only 10 disks and assign two HDDs as ...
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Why does my network file copy speed form a wave?
With the upgrade to Windows 10 I've now got this nice graph when copying files.
When I copy a single large file the speed always takes this reasonably consistent wave shape. What causes that?
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Recursive unrar of several folders
I have several RAR archives spread around multiple directories but all under a particular root folder on my Debian based NAS.
Could someone help me write a simple script that would recursively go into ...
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Should I use "Raid 5 + spare" or "Raid 6"?
What is "Raid 5 + Spare" (excerpt from User Manual, Sect 4.17.2, P.54):
RAID5+Spare: RAID 5+Spare is a RAID 5 array in which one disk is
used as spare to rebuild the system as soon as a disk fails (...
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How can I verify the health of hard disks using a Synology NAS?
I'll receive my first NAS (a Synology DS413) and three hard disks tomorrow. Of course I'd like to check if everything's fine with the disks before setting up RAID and migrating my data. Unfortunately, ...
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Upgrading disks in a RAID1 Synology 2-bay drive
I have a Synology 2-bay 211j NAS with 2x1TB HDD installed as single RAID 1 volume. I'm running out of space, so I'd like to upgrade my NAS with 2x3TB HDDs. Is there any easy way to copy all data from ...
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Why is there a write speed difference between dd, cp, rsync and macOS Finder to a SMB3 drive?
Tl;dr – We can't find the reason for the limited write speed of 60 MB/sec to our NAS via SMB and AFP from two different Mac clients. In comparison: An old Windows 7 laptop in the same network writes ...
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Is Windows Home Server compelling enough over free NAS OS's?
Has anyone out there run Windows Home Server for a while? I'm building a NAS box and I'm wondering if its features are compelling enough to warrant purchasing rather than the open source alternatives ...
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Why does Windows say "The disk that your backup is saved on is about to fail"?
On my Windows 8 machine, I have set up backup to a network location on my new NAS (a Synology DS412+).
Backup has succeeded. But in the "Windows 7 File Recovery" section of the Control Panel it says "...
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A virusproof (ransomware...) strategy for backup on a NAS?
I bought a NAS to share files and as backup solution.
Recently my netbook got infected by a ransomware. All files on the netbook and most of the file on the NAS were destroyed (the virus shuffles the ...
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Samba vs. NFS: Performance [closed]
I've got a choice of setting up Samba or NFS on my Linux based NAS ( nslu2 running OpenDebian ).
Does anyone have performance related stories comparing the two options ? Are there tuneup tricks that ...
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What is a good free Linux FTP backup solution? [closed]
I have the need for a backup solution that will let me run local incremental backups and then synchronize the backup with a remote folder over FTP. I have found several solutions that would allow me ...
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how can NAS work if it is not connected to Internet?
I was reading the reviews for a NAS backup solution: Western Digital 4TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud Storage - WDBVXC0040HWT-NESN. I am referring to the this review on the product that criticized the ...
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What is a two bay NAS device?
I read the Super User 1 Year Anniversary Super Contest post about a contest. And one of the prizes is a two bay NAS device.
I don't think I'll make any awesome question or answer but I'm curious to ...
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Something like Dropbox for local use with a NAS as storage server
I am looking for a solution to sync folder pairs between a NAS and multiple local macs. Each of the macs could edit files and the other macs should then get synced automatically. Basically my own ...
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local cache for NAS or network folder
I am planning to build a network attached storage (NAS) server.
Is there a way to cache frequently acccessed files from the remote storage automatically on the local PC?
(I am not looking for a way ...
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Using iTunes to access all your music on a NAS but keeping the library.xml local... Is it possible/how? (Mac OSX))
I've pushed across my whole music collection to my Buffalo Linkstation NAS recently. This is the entire iTunes folder including artwork, music, library.xml, the whole kaboodle... (I have iTunes in ...
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How to read external USB hard drive formatted ext3 from Windows 7?
I had to format a USB hard drive to ext3 to use it with a Linksys nas box. Now I can't read the hd when I unplug it from the nas and plug it directly into my Windows 7 computer. (The computer ...
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What can the second LAN port be used for on a NAS?
I've got a NAS with 2 ethernet ports. I have one connected to the router. I read that the second could be connected to double the speed of data to and from the NAS. I don't need to do that, as the ...
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Is a home NAS reliable to keep your data on (no other backups)?
The question came up while I was thinking to move some data (e.g.) pictures, old but important other data solely to the NAS (private use, no business level).
My NAS is a simple 2 disk RAID system. I ...
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Do fanless NAS devices exist? If not, can I build one myself?
I'm interested in finding a fanless NAS with at least two drives for silence and reliable storage (RAID 1), but I haven't been able to find anything.
Do these exist? Or does having a CPU in the NAS ...
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Stop Windows 7 from flooding the LAN with SMB queries
I have an annoying problem with a NAS from Western Digital (MyBook Live Duo 6 TB) that is hooked up via a switch to my LAN. There are four Windows 7 machines in the network, one of them connected ...
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What happens with my encrypted files on Synology when it is stolen?
I have a Synology NAS. It has the possibility to encrypt folders. I have enabled it via the web interface. But one of the reasons for actually encrypting these files is that they should be protected ...
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How do I change the root password on my Synology Rackstation?
Synology's OS doesn't seem to have a passwd command, and I have been unable to change my Root user's password using the synouser command:
MyNas > synouser --setpw root hunter2
Lastest SynoErr=[...
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Is there a personal cloud solution that keep versions for documents? [closed]
Today I have lost a file which I've worked on for the last day & half by a mistake.
As result, I'm looking to buy a personal cloud solution which will automatically backup my files while I save ...
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Accessing an old, populated hard drive with a NAS?
Trying to brush up on my general understanding of hard drives and partitions...
I have an old SATA hard drive with a load of stuff on it. As far as I'm aware it wasn't the OS's boot drive before I ...
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NAS - ZFS system versus NTFS or EXT4 system
I was contemplating purchasing a QNAP 459-II for my home storage/streaming needs and a friend advised me that I should look into ZFS rather. I read up a bit on the filing system technology and was ...
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Are there any drawbacks of running Caviar Red (or any other NAS-ready) HDD on your desktop PC?
What does the NAS-ready imply and how suitable are these HDD's for desktop PC's?
My home desktop PC is turned on whenever I'm home and/or I'm awake (I turn it off during the night). Would a NAS-ready ...
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Why is Samba SMB slower than HTTP/NFS/FTP transfer on NAS on my LAN?
I want to set up a NAS which I have done most recently with a Raspberry Pi 2 (quad-core ARM Cortex-A7, 1GB RAM, 32GB microSD) running Raspbian “Jessie”:
I have a laptop—an HP Pavilion G6—running ...
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Copying files from one NAS to another
I've got 2 NAS drives that are connected through a router via Ethernet.
If I have a wireless laptop and request a large amount of data to be copied from one NAS drive to the other, does the network ...
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Which lossless audio format should I use when storing them on my NAS?
I have started a project of ripping my big collection of CDs and storing them on my NAS. Since I care for audio quality I have decided to store them in a lossless format. Right now I have tried to use ...
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Mini-ITX Case that would take ~6 SATA Hard Drives [closed]
Thinking about maybe building my own NAS. I would go with Raid 5, and would like maybe about 6 SATA drives:
There a mini atx case that can hold this many drives (Non-Rack ideally)
What sort of power ...
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NAS: pre-generating thumbnails for multiple clients
I have a simple setup: Linux server at home with a huge drive; that drive has a photo library (hundreds of folders, hundreds of gigabytes). The drive is shared with multiple Windows and Mac clients ...
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Is it possible to use a NAS to host videos? [closed]
Is it possible to use a NAS, in which I put videos, to watch what I would like to be able to watch at any time, for me and my friends?
However I'm not good at programming at all, so I wanted to know ...
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Accidentally changed an IPv4 setting on Synology NAS Cannot access it anymore
I have a Synology NAS which was working fine - for the usage I was making of it : backup - but it wasn't connected to the internet. I was able to access it via the browser GUI or in windows (via \...
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Troubleshooting slow Wi-Fi performance writing to NAS
Setup:
a Late 2007 MacBook Pro, running latest OS X 10.6,
connects via Wi-Fi access point, ASUS WL-330gE
to AFP share on NAS Synology DS508 running under latest DSM 4.0.
When doing rsync from the ...
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Creating one big continuous space from 4 disks
I am assembling file server for home use. I wonder if it is possible to use multiple disks in a way that they will be visible in network as one continuous space? More less like JBOD. I am using SATA ...
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Adding a new disk drive to a Synology 2-bay drive
I've got a Synology 2-bay NAS (DS213). Initially I added a single 3 TB disk. It was configured with SHR (with no data protection). I have some data in it too.
Now I've got a new disk, and have added ...
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5V/12V load balance of 3.5'' HDD?
I have a home-built NAS where I currently have ten 3.5'' SATA HDDs. The PSU I use there is rated for 140W on 5V rail and 480W on 12V rail. Since the 3.5'' HDDs use both 12V and 5V voltages, I would ...
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bash - test if disk is unpartitioned
I'm currently working on a DIY network storage which aggregates free disk space using mhddfs.
Now what I want is, for example given a hotswap bay, when I insert a brand new unpartitioned disk, I wish ...
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