NAS stands for Network Attached Storage, a mechanism for providing file-level access to storage across a network.
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Can I safely remove all disks of a synology NAS while its turned off?
I have a Synology 4-bay NAS (RS409RP+) with a RAID 5 installed on 4 hard disks. Now I need to upgrade the NAS to a bigger set of hard disks, and because these hard disks are 3TB each, I cannot use the ...
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How important are RAM and Processor speed for a home NAS [closed]
If I were to build a NAS for the following purposes, what's the minimum ram and processor speed would I need?
Backup of One Desktop & Two Laptops
Shared Folders
Synched Folders
Video and Audio ...
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Need to set up a shared file system for load-balanced site in Amazon AWS
I have two load-balanced nodes and rather than synchronizing two file systems, I would like to try a shared file system. What is the best way to do this in AWS? I am using Windows Server 2003 for the ...
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Setting up a Networked External Drive with different filesystems [migrated]
everybody and thank you for taking the time to read this. I have an external hard drive with partitions for Time Machine (HFS+), Linux storage (Ext4), Swap Storage (Fat32), and Windows Storage (NTFS). ...
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Synology NAS performance as main disk for ESXi 5 [closed]
I'm planning on buying a Synology NAS, one of the + models. I'm wondering what the performance would be like if I use it as the main disk for my ESXi 5 server. I mainly run Debian and run web and ...
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Can't find ISCSI drives after NAS firmware update
This is what it's all about: I've got a Linux network with an actual hardware server running two separate virtual machines and a QNAP NAS T-459 Pro+ as a fileserver. Since updating the QNAP firmware ...
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How do “surveillance” and “nas” class drives relate to “enterprise” and “desktop” [closed]
The manufacturer of a specific NAS I have purchased have a table of supported drives, classified for (in alphabetical order):
Desktop
Enterprise
Nas
Surveillance
Desktop and enterprise are clear, ...
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Qnap NAS TS-419 PII - no space on volume - installing jenkins
I am trying to get a jenkins server running on my nas.
I installed java on my qnap TS 419 PII following this blog post: http://minimserver.com/install-qnap.html
after this i tried to install ...
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Using LTFS volumes as PV's in LVM [closed]
Has anyone tried using LTFS volumes as PV's in LVM? Would make a tape-NAS more flexible than, for example, the IBM approach where "each LTFS-formatted tape cartridge in the library appears as a ...
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NAS Device can't change permissions of folders/files
We have a Powerbay NAS device and there are 3 iMacs connected to it, when we initially created folders/files on the NAS device the iMacs had an incorrect Mask setting. So the folders and files were ...
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Connecting to NAS boxes/printer located on local private WAN network
The set up
Here's a diagram of my network:
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Configuring UNCUsername and UNCPassword for IIS6
I haev written a simple webservice that uploads/downloads files and it works nicely.
in production however i need it to be able to store the files on a NAS.
The techs gave me a username/password for ...
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What qualities to look for in a NAS for short term storage?
Background
I work at a research department working with biomedical data and we are currently considering to the revise our IT-structure. We have several instruments that generate GBs of data on a ...
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Replacing ageing Hitachi SMS 100 SAN [closed]
Summary
Our Hitachi SMS 100 SAN is going to be 5 years old soon, and out of it support / replacement time frame, so we need to replace it. I identified several possible replacement options but I'd ...
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On the fly encryption of data ( not your average type) [closed]
I'm looking to build my first nas. And i intend to connect over the internet to it.
Because i will have some work documents too on it i want to make it as secure as possible.
I have no ...
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How to prevent Windows 8 computer from periodically checking a Samba share
My Windows 8 box keeps nagging my QNAP TS-112 NAS, preventing it from spinning down its disk. Is there any way to prevent this behavior?
The connection log on the NAS looks like this:
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Is using a NAS with hot swap disks an effective way of cycling backups?
We are looking at improving our backup solution. We don't have a huge amount of data to back up (currently ~500GB) which is backed up nightly onto an external HD. We have 3 of these HD, with one going ...
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iscsi concurrent access / iscsi volume shared access on NAS
I having a 7-bay NAS box with Raid-5 (5.3TB usable) with netgear gigabit Ethernet switch to connect the hosts (3 windows7 machine Specs: i7 / 16GB RAM / 1TB HDD / gigabit Ethernet NIC). (All of the ...
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apt upgrade error on My Book Live [closed]
I have a WD My Book Live network drive (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=280) on my LAN.
I can SSH on the network drive which seems to run Debian:
>> cat /etc/issue
Debian ...
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Is it possible to set up NAS to share files and then check for most recent edits and sync?
I'm not sure if this is a serverfault or a superuser question, so my apologies if I'm in the wrong place.
I have a Synology NAS and We have an office with two laptops. I want to share one folder ...
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PC cluster for fast IO [duplicate]
I’m looking for the best computer configuration to build a computer cluster. This computer cluster is going to be used for a search engine which uses a lot of quick-access I/O operation, so my top ...
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Building a small server setup - need storage and reduncy - NAS or SAN? [closed]
I want to build a small server setup. With 2 load balancers, and at first 2 webservers. I need a setup where both webservers would be able to upload and download files from a common storage solution.
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how can I connect to a server throught a firewall? [closed]
I am trying to make a datbase connection from the Server A to the Server B , the Server B can only reached throught a network, that has its gateway on a firewall (it distributes internet and all other ...
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Mixing enterprise and desktop HDDs in a NAS
Is mixing enterprise HDDs and desktop HDDs in a NAS a bad idea? (Trying to transition a NAS to all enterprise drives without the large one off cost by instead replace the desktop drives with ...
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ZFS and green drives/TLER
I'm setting up a NAS box based around freenas and ZFS.
I've read lots of posts (like this one) about "deep recovery" and green drives when using RAID-5.
Does ZFS (vs Raid-5) mean that this problem ...
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Update RAID 10 NAS storage
I've got a NAS with 4x500GB HDD in RAID 10. I want to change the actual HDDs to others of 1TB capacity, but I want (if possible) to preserve the data without having to copy it outside the NAS. The NAS ...
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Recommendations: configuring a 10GbE NAS stack for virtualisation storage
I'll try as hard as I can to word this so it is not considered a shopping list.
We have been successfully running a dev/test ESXi environment for some time, with a couple of Dell PE2950III servers ...
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Is RAID the right way to go on an Ubuntu 11.10 server running on old hardware? [closed]
I have an older computer running Ubuntu server 11.10. It has an 20GB IDE drive in it which is the main system drive. This system works great as a git repository, VPN, SSH, etc. I wanted to also have ...
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Host name issue with FreeNAS [closed]
I have set up a freenas server. Now, I have assigned it's default hostname which is freenas. I have configured a share (CIFS). Everything works fine, but out of the blue, the system refuses connection ...
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Can't connect to Freenas over public IP Adress
I have built a freenas server. It's behind a router and i a modified a NAT setting that allowed the server to be assigned with the router's public IP adress.
Now, i get an error when I connect to it ...
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Is there opensource NAS with ndmp support? [closed]
Do you know any open-source NAS server solution with NDMP support?.
Thanks,
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Accessing a NAS which does not integrate with active directory
I have an external NAS, sadly there is no integration with active directory natively, but I need to store certain files on there for backup purposes and be able to access them depending on the user ...
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Network attached storage for multiple web (apache,mysql,email) servers
At this moment i have 3 servers running cpanel.
Dell PowerEdge
HP DL360
Intel based (intel boards, cpu, chassis)
Each server has its own internal storage. What i want is to setup one NAS or SAN or ...
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How does one reboot an IBM ds3300?
We have an IBM System Storage DS3300 Express SCSI Dual Enclosure Controller Mfr P/N 172632E that needs to be rebooted. How does one accomplish this?
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Why use NAS for file access, why not SAN? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the use-case for NAS on a mid-to-high end storage array?
SAN is block level, NAS is file level. Block level means applications access blocks,while in file level ...
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Auto mounting Network Drive? [closed]
I have built a freenas based NAS. It's configured correctly, but how i force windows to automount on login with specific credentials?
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large iSCSI disk a good idea on an entry-level “unified” NAS?
I am working on implementing a D2D backup solution for ~150 computers based on Crashplan ProE (no cloud storage). For the storage backend, I picked up an Overland Snapserver DX2 head unit and one ...
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'No space left on device' on mounted NFS device
On NFS Server:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvdf2 103212320 85090308 12879132 87% /export18
On Client Server:
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Can I have two zpools using different ZFS version on one server?
I just upgraded from FreeNAS 0.7.2 to NAS4Free 9.1 and have an old ZFS pool imported. Freenas used ZFS v15 and Nas4free is using v28. I would like to wait a bit before upgrading, but have a new disc I ...
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How do I measure NAS latency?
I have two Linux systems at work which have different NAS servers. Our developer tools run directly from them. The tools seem to run very slowly in one of the systems. (The tools read-write many files ...
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NAS synching between two office locations [closed]
We are a small company of 11 people and two office locations.
I want to have a NAS running on both locations that syncs with the other locations automatically in the background - what system would ...
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ReadyNAS 1100 Disk 3 keeps getting bad sectors
I am using a ReadyNAS 1100 and have had to replace the disk in slot 3 4 times over the past 1.5 years. The other disks have been perfect.
Disk 1 Power on hours: 26538
Disk 2 Power on hours: 26538
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Running vmdk files from NAS with ESXi 5.1
I have a ESXi 5.1 Server and a 12TB Thecus n4200eco(~5.5TB in RAID6). I want to be able to run the virtual machines from the NAS instead of the server because the server has no RAID and I don't trust ...
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Configuring two subnets with two NICS. Access from a NAS to the internet [closed]
I am having trouble configuring my NAS. I have a DSL router with WIFI (192.168.1.1) in my flatmates room. In my room I have a server with two NICS:
1) wlan0 (192.168.1.2) that connects to the DSL ...
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Route all traffic to a NAS through VPN
I have a motorola NVG510 router which connects directly to the internet via AT&T. I recently purchased Zyxel NSA325 NAS. I connected the network attached storage directly to the router. I was ...
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Do any “pro-sumer” grade NAS boxes use hardware RAID? [closed]
Given the comments regarding the cost of true hardware RAID in some of my searches like here or here, it would appear that $500 solutions like Synology DS413, Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 4, QNAP TS-419P ...
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Windows server 2008 R2 nas connection [closed]
I am a student and i'm experimenting with my own home server running windows server 2008 R2.
Now i have a NAS in my network an i can connect with it trough my server but only if i am on the ...
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Why is ZFS replication single threaded?
On my 8 core NAS I see only one core maxed out when ZFS replication over SSH is running.
I would expect that transferring a snapshot would scale perfectly with the number or cores, as the snapshot ...
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Generalized strategy for file server virtualization in Xenserver [closed]
I'm not shopping as much as I'm looking for some guidance on good idea / bad idea strategies. I'm sure I'm not in the "best practices" budget range.
Currently, I have 3 dell poweredges running ...
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Buffalo NAS Active Directory Integration Group Policy Changes
as a part of effort to integrate buffalo NAS terrastation pro with our AD, we found out that following changes need to be made in the Group policy;
The following need to be altered in Domain-> ...
