Best NAS Drives??

[mcquaim]

@Silverfox0786

My DS212j arrived yesterday so I only got a little time to play with it last night and stick a few files onto it (So so much quicker than the Iomega NAS ) but when I tried to mount it from either of the Duo's it wasn't able to see the folders (photo, video etc.) from within the DS212j.

I was going in via the Network Browser but when I expanded the root it did not list any folders

Do I need to do anything special on the NAS to make the drives visible?

I am prob doing something stupid but I haven't spent much time as yet as it took hours initialising the disks etc. last night...

[silverfox0786]

you need to set up the NFS privalages

once done then you can connect to it via NFS shares in the DUO


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[mcquaim]

Thanks a mill silverfox, a legend as usual

[silverfox0786]

no worriesd mate glad to help

[avatar7]

Hi,

Just a pointer of advice. I got my DS411 today. Trying to work out how this hybrid raid works and if what I am doing below to migrate my data across would be ok.

Currently I have got 1 x 500gb drive in my DS411.

My Readynas has 2 x 1tb drives inside of them. I plan to take 1tb out of the duo and insert it into my DS411 so it will then have 1 x 500gb and 1 x 1tb. Once it is like this I plan to copy all data over from my my Readynas over to my DS411. Once this is done can I remove the 500gb inside of my DS411 and replace with the final 1tb from my Readynas. So then at the end I have in the DS411 1 x 500gb and 2 x 1tb drives. Then at a later date when can stump up some cash buy a 2tb hdd and replace the 500gb with that.

Would the hybrid raid rebuild the drives with all the mix and match going on that I am doing?

Thanks

[silverfox0786]

what you need to remeber is you cant go lower in hdd space

so if you start with 500gb thats fine but that wont go to SHR as that needs 2 drives minimum

so add yr 1tb along with it

then set up SHR once done you can then upgrade yr drives the lower ones to higher ones but not higher ones to lower

it should automatically create the hdd space and upgrade the SHR capacity

[avatar7]

what you need to remeber is you cant go lower in hdd space

so if you start with 500gb thats fine but that wont go to SHR as that needs 2 drives minimum

so add yr 1tb along with it

then set up SHR once done you can then upgrade yr drives the lower ones to higher ones but not higher ones to lower

it should automatically create the hdd space and upgrade the SHR capacity

Thanks mate. You the man!

Great unit this is so far I think! Time to setup sab,sick,couch

[silverfox0786]

just remeber to get the one for yr chipset

the noarch build work on all synologies

[avatar7]

Silverfox -

I'm just scratching my head around this synology hybrid raid. That's what I have gone for.

What size does your nas actually become. Say you put in 4 x 1tb drives in. Would the nas just become 2tb fully redundant?

Thanks

[silverfox0786]

if yr using 4 same size drives 1tb then really you dont need SHR just use standard raid

depending on what redundency you want will be yr drive size

1 driver redundency will be total 3tb and 2 drive redundency will be total 2tb


that will be yr max on a 4 bay

look here

http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_Synology_Hybrid_RAID%3F

http://www.synology.com/tutorials/video_hybrid_raid.php?lang=us

[avatar7]

if anyone here is using sabnzb on their synology devices what max download speed do you get? I've got a 30mb connection and I can only seem to max out at 1mb/s down using sabnzb on my synology ds411. If i use on my macbook with same settings I can get over 3mb/s down.

[silverfox0786]

yeah i get the same on my 30meg i max out at 1.4-2.0

but please remeber thats same as 15meg

yr internet is 30Mbps [bits]
and sabnzbd is is MBps [bytes] so 1.4MBps [bytes] is around 15Mbps [bits]

[Maxwell]

I get 3.6 to 3.8 MB/s with Sab to my N40L with a 30Mb broadband

[avatar7]

I get 3.6 to 3.8 MB/s with Sab to my N40L with a 30Mb broadband

That's because your N40L is like a full on computer

[avatar7]

Fellow sickbeard/sabnzb users on the synology. I've set it all up. It works but I have this error coming up:

Failed to set permission for /volume1/Video/complete/TV/xxxx/xxxxxx to 666

Anyone had this come up before and how to resolve it?