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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #50 on: May 08, 2014, 11:45:03 AM »
Quote from: Markbell on May 08, 2014, 09:53:35 AM
I'm thinking of replacing my server 2003 with NAS. 8 users accessing file share and 1 printer.

Anyone see a problem with this?
Question I have is: Are your existing PC's connected to a domain on your old server. If so they will need to be removed from the domain before you de-commision the old server i.e logon to the local PC rather than logging onto their server account via the PC.
There may be some mucking around to get it all working.
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #51 on: May 08, 2014, 11:48:46 AM »
Stumbled across http://owncloud.org/ the other day. Might have a play.
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #52 on: May 08, 2014, 12:23:52 PM »
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Stumbled across http://owncloud.org/ the other day. Might have a play.


That does look interesting. 
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #53 on: June 16, 2016, 09:33:40 PM »
Bloke at work is using I think Amazon for online backups of all family photos.. costs something like 50c a month or 1/4..
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #54 on: June 16, 2016, 09:51:36 PM »
my (nas) is actually an old pentium D powered pc. has been running as my home server/NAS/it was also an email server and a VIOP server (for a while when i had more spare time.) for over 5 years running 24/7. cost me nothing to build as i already had the parts. has 2 mirrored 750GB HDDS. (which do need upsizing now.) and it has served me really well. i though about buying a nas. but for the money that it would cost i could upgrade the HDDs in this and have change.

i use it for photo storage and music and movies which then can be streamed to any tv in my house as each of them have a htpc, i've even got an old laptop setup in my duagthers bedroom so she can watch netflix or anyone one of the hundreds of movies she has.
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #55 on: June 16, 2016, 10:45:41 PM »
My new Unraid 6.2 NAS is running along nicely.
Xeon processor
Supermicro mobo
16Gb ECC ram
6Tb Parity
6Tb & 4Tb Data
2 x 500Gb Cache drives
Docker running plex
About to start playing with VM's. Win10 to start with & Ubuntu as well
Can really recommend Unraid as a NAS OS  ;D


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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #56 on: June 17, 2016, 06:24:52 AM »
Quote from: Bird on June 16, 2016, 09:33:40 PM
Bloke at work is using I think Amazon for online backups of all family photos.. costs something like 50c a month or 1/4..


that sounds like amazon glacier...

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/details/

i have been using that service since it began with free fast glacier software and it works a treat.

it has a command-line option so you can just script it to run whenever you want.

i back up my photos and documents with it.  cheap as...
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #57 on: June 17, 2016, 06:25:47 AM »
Quote from: noel_w on June 16, 2016, 10:45:41 PM
My new Unraid 6.2 NAS is running along nicely.
Xeon processor
Supermicro mobo
16Gb ECC ram
6Tb Parity
6Tb & 4Tb Data
2 x 500Gb Cache drives
Docker running plex
About to start playing with VM's. Win10 to start with & Ubuntu as well
Can really recommend Unraid as a NAS OS  ;D

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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #58 on: June 17, 2016, 08:54:18 AM »
My playing with Owncloud evolved into something a little bigger.
My "server" is now a Windows 10 pc running Plex to share out videos and music.
I use VirtualBox to run FreeBSD images - one for OwnCloud (2TB of storage instead of the paltry 8GB I get with DropBox). One for backups using rsync (8TB disk). One for a small Wordpress blog. One for dns/dhcp serving.
When I have a chance and get VPN connections working, I'll put a Synology NAS with another 8TB drive at my daughter's place for off-site backups.
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #59 on: July 09, 2017, 05:30:22 PM »
So what are people using these days..
Bloke at work is using Amazon online backups for his important photos and stuff.. Not for linking to sites


had a scare this morning with a 4TB drive going down - it came back, but currently moving everything to another machine for backup.. time for a permanent solution..
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #60 on: July 09, 2017, 06:38:53 PM »
Quote from: Bird on July 09, 2017, 05:30:22 PM
So what are people using these days..
Bloke at work is using Amazon online backups for his important photos and stuff.. Not for linking to sites


had a scare this morning with a 4TB drive going down - it came back, but currently moving everything to another machine for backup.. time for a permanent solution..

Windows 2012 server running on a hp microserver, with 8TB of usable space.

That server is backed up daily to another microserver, also with 8TB of space.

Also run an online backup to an amazon glacier instance, for my documents, music and photos.

The glacier instance costs me about $2 a month to run, for about 500gb...

Would cost me to get the data back, but it is only there as a 'just in case' arrangement.

My microservers are up for replacement soon, soon I am thinking of getting two synology 4-bay NAS devices...  less management and they just work.
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #61 on: July 09, 2017, 09:30:43 PM »
I'd be going Synology or QNAP ... I spend all day farting about with Windows servers, and the last thing I want to do at home is the same... 

I've played with Amahi and Unraid, but CBFd anymore

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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #62 on: July 10, 2017, 09:07:58 AM »
Been running unRaid here for about 4 years. Goes really well. Have all mission critical data duplicated on the cloud also. Same story as others, I have had to replace a few disks along the way and it does require some tinkering along the way! It is very nice that it now supports 2x parity disks :)


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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #63 on: July 10, 2017, 01:58:41 PM »
Interesting, not that I trust magazines at all but gives some options
http://au.pcmag.com/backup-products-1/9603/guide/the-best-online-backup-services-of-2017
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #64 on: July 10, 2017, 02:05:03 PM »
Quote from: Bird on July 10, 2017, 01:58:41 PM
Interesting, not that I trust magazines at all but gives some options
http://au.pcmag.com/backup-products-1/9603/guide/the-best-online-backup-services-of-2017


or you could pay $119 a year for an office 365 subscription and get 1TB online storage for five users (5TB in total)...

https://products.office.com/en-au/office-365-home


by comparison, crashplan family plan is $165 per year for 2-10 computers, with unlimited storage...


depends on your usage case and what you want to put in the cloud, i guess...

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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #65 on: July 13, 2017, 06:20:37 PM »
Quote from: paceman on July 10, 2017, 02:05:03 PM
depends on your usage case and what you want to put in the cloud, i guess...

I'd put it all in the cloud if I could but I calculated that with my pathetic adsl-1 link, the initial backup would take 10 months if I ran it 24x7 and stuffed up access for everything else


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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #66 on: July 13, 2017, 06:23:36 PM »
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I'd put it all in the cloud if I could but I calculated that with my pathetic adsl-1 link, the initial backup would take 10 months if I ran it 24x7 and stuffed up access for everything else

bloke at work started his upload in April (using Amazon cloud I think it was). His 'important" stuff finished this week... hasn't bothered with his movie collection or rubbish.. backed up mainly fotos, and documents etc.
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #67 on: July 13, 2017, 06:31:53 PM »
Quote from: Bird on July 13, 2017, 06:23:36 PM
bloke at work started his upload in April (using Amazon cloud I think it was). His 'important" stuff finished this week... hasn't bothered with his movie collection or rubbish.. backed up mainly fotos, and documents etc.

exactly what i did... no movies in the cloud... just the important stuff...
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #68 on: July 13, 2017, 08:51:48 PM »
I have a 4 Bay QNAP TS-453A and use that to run some virtual appliances, PLEX as a native app and replicate content into my OneDrive account for offsite backups. Once a blue moon, I will also take a copy onto portable USB and leave it at work. A pair of disks are RAID and another pair are JBOD. Performance wise, the QNAP was able to handle running my firewall (Untangle) as a VM and on a 25Mbps NBN connection, however had no hope once I moved upto the 100Mbps NBN.  Runs any 1080P Plex streamed movie around the house via native plex apps and DLNA no problems at all.

Ive never used the HDMI interface and arent that impressed with the device and some of the applications available and wish I took a better look at the Synology.
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #69 on: August 10, 2018, 02:01:49 PM »
Just had a Synology DS918+ follow me home... Hes per-tee :)
https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS918+
https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/8492/synology-ds918-smb-nas-review/index6.html


Now to backup the drives from the old Qnap TS-431, swap em to the Synology and sell the Qnap :) :)
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #70 on: August 15, 2018, 10:10:50 PM »
Finally got around to setting it up, using 4x4tb drives I had here (would like 10's but 500ea :( ) setup Raid 5.

Interface is simple, and flows well to setup.. There's also a few vids on the University of Youtube if need be.

Just waiting for it to sort out the drives, probably take a day

Anyone looking for a cheap NAS :) Selling my TS431 Qnap.
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #71 on: August 16, 2018, 06:28:55 AM »
Quote from: Bird on August 15, 2018, 10:10:50 PM
Finally got around to setting it up, using 4x4tb drives I had here (would like 10's but 500ea :( ) setup Raid 5.

Interface is simple, and flows well to setup.. There's also a few vids on the University of Youtube if need be.

Just waiting for it to sort out the drives, probably take a day

Anyone looking for a cheap NAS :) Selling my TS431 Qnap.

how much for the QNAP?

why did you upgrade in the first place?  not happy with the QNAP?
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #72 on: August 16, 2018, 07:54:09 AM »
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how much for the QNAP?

why did you upgrade in the first place?  not happy with the QNAP?
needed 64bit NAS
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #73 on: August 16, 2018, 08:02:14 AM »
Quote from: Bird on August 16, 2018, 07:54:09 AM
needed 64bit NAS

interesting... what needed the 64bit... ?

any idea on price?
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Re: Network Attached Storage Devices
« Reply #74 on: August 16, 2018, 09:24:01 AM »
Yeah, what are you chasing for the qnap, and why did you need to go 64-bit?

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