Questions tagged [network-attached-storage]
NAS stands for Network Attached Storage, a mechanism for providing file-level access to storage across a network.
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Are Samsung B-Die and C-Die Compatible?
I am building a NAS (running TrueNAS/FreeNAS) using a SuperMicro A2SDi-8C+-HLN4F motherboard. I ordered 2 sticks of this Samsung C-Die RAM from a supplier but they could only send me 1 as it was the ...
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mount nfs as another folder on home
I have purchased a WD-Ex2 NAS and am trying to share a folder via nfs with my ubuntu machine.
This folder will be used only by this machine and I want to be able to have execute permissions with my ...
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Synology NAS Volume Crashed - SHR RAID
I have synalogy DS414j with 4 WD disk ( each of size 3726 GB ). I have 1 volume with Synology Hybrid RAID with capacity of 10.82 TB ( 10.67 TB Used)
One of the disks (Disk 1) was not being detected ...
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How can I reset share passwords for WD Sharespace using root in SSH?
I have a Western Digital ShareSpace Disk Array NAS (Same one in this manual : https://docs.rs-online.com/49a1/0900766b80ce7e97.pdf )
The system has an existing number of shares, with a lot of files ...
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Glusterfs on Synology NAS?
I run a machine-learning cluster for my small business. The cluster consists of three Ubuntu servers. The 10TB /home directory, provided by Server 1, is shared across all servers and is almost full.
I'...
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windows backup server (windows server 2012 R2) difference in backup dates
Windows Backup Server is doing successful backups on a shared folder at QNAP NAS.
But dates of backups on the server and dates on NAS are different.
Last backup on the server was on 04.07.2021 and it ...
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NETGEAR NAS capped at 1.3MB/s transfer rate across VPN
We have many NAS devices at our company and one is remote. It is connected to a Meraki MX64 which connects to our local network at the company. While transferring data over to it, the speed seems to ...
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Connection to Synology VPN server not working
I own two Synology NAS (at different places). The first one is set up as an OpenVPN server. All my devices(android mobile, windows pc, mac) work fine when connected to the synology VPN server but when ...
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Attach network disk as direct
Is where way to attach network disk as direct without creating VHD etc? I want to connect drive directly from one computer to other by network by like iSCSI but without creating VHD.
Not acceptable:
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Synology DS2415+ no ssh logs
as the title says, my synology sshd service appears to not be producing any ssh logs.
I've tried this guide: https://sites.google.com/site/benbriedis/ssh-on-synology without success.
I need the logs ...
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Dell NX3330 installing Windows Server OS? [closed]
Recently my company upgraded our storage system and now we have a few old Dell Power Vault NX3330 sitting around not being used.
So I heard that it is possible to install the full windows server OS ...
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Zyxel NAS Server hard drive data recovery
I had a Zyxel NSA-325v2 NAS Server, however the server failed and I cannot connect to it anymore and now I am trying to recover the data, however I have no idea which disk format it used.
Windows ...
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Can a currupt backup cause a hardrive failure?
I have a script that runs each time Windows 7 starts up that backs up an MS SQL database to a Synology NAS loaded with 12 Seagate ST4000NM002A-2HZ101 hard drives. Everyday at 3am the backed up ...
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Linux cifs share allow different user than mounted/masked uid to do cp -p
I have a specific linux-server that runs several batch jobs at night creating files and copying them to various locations on a NAS, previously mounted with NFS but as of lately with CIFS.
The reason ...
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Trouble Mapping Private Shares From My Cloud EX2 Ultra
Recently, one of my clients purchased a My Cloud EX2 Ultra unit and I am in the process of configuring both private and public shares.
NAS Unit
I am able to access the public shares with no problem ...
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Implications of Thick Volume Occupying 93% Of The Storage Pool on QNAP NAS
Spoiler Alert: I don't know a ton about what I'm doing, but I've been tasked with data protection and backing up at my workplace so I installed a NAS and set it up. Ideally I'd like to not have to ...
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What Happens When You Write Data To Raid While It Is Scrubbing?
I have a RAID 5 setup with almost 15TB of data capacity.
In the past I have let it go unchecked for too long, and found that multiple drives had SMART errors and I want to prevent bad blocks. I am ...
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Directly zip to network Shared Drive
i am using centos 7,currently I am running a cron in which some files are being zipped and then sent to the directory in desktop on daily basis from there I have to move it manually to a NAS(local ...
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Hands on lab/testing with NAS
My company has acquired a VMware system with 4 hosts and unfortunately i have no experience with NAS. Can anyone recommend a method to play with or learn how NAS works?
The system is a production ...
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Can multiple users work directly on a NAS
The title may be confusing but I'll try to explain my question the best I can.
Say I have two physical offices, on one I have all my data (excel files, word files, pdf's, etc). On the other I have my ...
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Integrate a QNAP TS-128A NAS in ESXi
Hello dear community,
I would like to mount / integrate a QNAP TS-128A NAS as storage in an VMWare ESXi 6.7 via "Mount NFS data storage". I had managed this several times without any ...
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How to add a physical disk to TrueNAS that hosted as a VM
I got this error while trying to create a pool in TrueNAS Core.
[EFAULT] Failed to wipe disk ada1: [EFAULT] Command gpart create -s gpt /dev/ada1 failed (code 1): gpart: Input/output error
Here's my ...
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How to check OS version of Synology NAS Disk Station Manager (DSM)?
How do I check what OS is installed on my Synology NAS?
uname -a informed me that my NAS is:
aarch64 GNU/Linux synology_rtd1296_rs819
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Expanding synology virtual machine disk - disk space not recognized
I've created a Virtual Machine in Synology Disk Station Manager (an ubuntu server) with a specific amount of storage space in a virtual disk, but I have depleted it. Went to Synology Disk Station / ...
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How to make backup for the Local Server
I have critical server that running the local company system, that have system backup and company files and business documents with critical and important severity.
I'm planning to create a Network ...
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mdadm: /dev/md/3 assembled from 1 drive - not enough to start the array
Having two RAID discs from WD NAS and would like to recover data using Ubuntun Linux.
Disc information as below:
{DISC 1}
Disk /dev/sdb: 3.65 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
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Mount software raid HDD on Ubuntu
Have two HDDs should be using RAID1 (or RAID0) from a broken WD LiveDuo NAS device.
Put them on a Ubuntu machine, and try to get the data back. But cannot find a decent way to mount the drive, like ...
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Make data on file server (RAID1) still accessible on hardware failure
There is a file server (Windows Server 2008 R2) running on a hardware RAID 1 (HP SmartArray P212 with Read and Write Cache) with 2 standby disks. Additional, there is a Windows Backup writing to an ...
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Best Practice: Ansys FEA Output Data Storage
I'm trying to make this as least subjective as possible by providing finite inputs and parameters. I truly want to know what is the most resource affective, given the constraints. Given my available ...
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Synology Expansion box not visible to Rackstation
We have two Synology Rackstation RS2418RP+'s and for a separate project we needed to add some more disk to them. We purchased a pair of RX1217RP's as according to Synology these are compatible.
I ...
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Buffalo Linkstation needs (NasPmService) service installed
I have a Buffalo Linkstation (LS-WXL) NAS device installed but it appears to require the NasPmService installed on a server before it works. Is this normal, do all NAS devices require installation of ...
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Windows clients not able to join to a domain hosted by qnap nas
I am pretty new in networking and I bumped into a challenge that I am not able to solve for three days. What I would like to achieve is to join a windows server (windows server 2016) and Windows 10 ...
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Recover data from broken RAID 1 drive
I need to save files from a Buffalo NAS Linkstation with two physical drives that is not working anymore (2TB each, Raid 1). Error message says:
The bad sectors in the hard drive may have reached a ...
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MySQL is extremly slow, is it possible that it's because the storage engine is located on NAS?
We have two similar spec HDD CentOS 7 servers for two different clients in different countries, both clients have the same database and same indexes.
Client A: The server is only running MySQL 8 and ...
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What is Synology's RAID Technology based on?
I am curious about Synology's RAID Technology is based on which linux kernel modules.
It seems MD+LVM according to its service center but I am not quite sure. Or the RAID function on filesystem is ...
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NFS Datastore for Vmware high IO
Currently we have many 1U data-stores that are running a 10Gbps copper. Each box pretty much saturates its line (700gbps-900Gbps sustained) they all have 300GB SAS drives x8 in a raid 10 so about 1 TB ...
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Importance of same RPM in a NAS
I am thinking of buying a completely new NAS with 4 bays. I would like to fill each bay with a 12 TB HDD, and apply RAID 5.
Most often it will be accessed from 2 computers at most. I searched for 10 ...
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Synology DS218+ NAS new folder can not be seen from remote log in
I am getting some odd behaviour on my client's NAS, a Synology DS218+ the TLDR is that it's not letting me see a new folder from remote. The DS218+ is a machine that is new to me, and I'm learning ...
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Freenas is slow - network @ 400MB/sec, disk @ 150MB/sec
I have a 16 core virtualization FreeNAS 11.3-U4.1 instance running on Hyper-V with 32GB of RAM with a 18TB iscsi target on DELL T630 server grade hardware.
HDD are on IT mode from the RAID card, so ...
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Best Practices - RAID on local backup repository? [closed]
What is the best practice when it comes to using RAID on a NAS, when that NAS is purely there to hold server backups?
My intuition tells me to forego RAID and just use a single drive. Reasons why:
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Building a NAS, Raid vs HBA? [closed]
Building a NAS with the hardware below. I've been reading through the IXSystems forums as i'm thinking about using FreeNAS or Unraid for the OS. I see that ZFS requires HBA cards rather than raid ...
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NAS not recognizing hard drive
My work has a Thecus N89000 NAS with 5 hard drives, RAID 5. We had a power outage last week and when power returned the NAS was unable to find RAID and no network folders are found. In the admin ...
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Is exFAT filesystem a good choice for USB3 HDD connected to a home NAS server on Raspbian? [closed]
I have a home NAS on Raspberry PI4 with a USB3 HDD connected. I have a variety of devices with different OSs (Linux, Win and Mac), and I'd like to be able to access that HDD from any of those with a ...
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Can access folders through FileStation but not Windows
NAS : QNAP TS-809U
Version : 4.2.6
Raid6, 8 disks
Hey, because the NAS crashed during an update, I had to "factory reset" it. After solving a lot problems, I'm coming to an end, but there is one last ...
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RAID 1 HDD vs SSD [closed]
I would like to implement backup solution in my workstation - I do not take separate NAS server into consideration, one machine is the limit for me.
My desktop is up almost 12h per day, and it can ...
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Adding SAS/RAID controller disables network ports. Why?
I've built a NAS that has been running well for months. I recently decided to add a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260CV-8i L3-25377-02B 8 Port 6GB/S SAS RAID Controller to it with a couple of additional 12TB HHDs ...
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Are MacOS sparsebundles suitable for multiuser access
I want to use a sparsebundle on a linux bases NAS (synology) as a encrypted container.
The sparsebundle files will be accessible in a shared Folder via SMB or AFP for MacOS Clients.
Does this work, if ...
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NAS drive mounted RW (in Linux) but some subdirectories are read-only
I'm mounting a set of NAS drives on my Linux box (Ubuntu 20.04) and everything seems to be working fine for most of the drives:
sudo mount -t cifs //mynas/mydrive /mnt/mydrive -o \
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Does 6 cores ryzen 5 3600 x or 8 cores ryzen 7 3800x or intel i7 6700k or ryzen 9 3950x used for website/Nas enterprise based server
I was thinking to set up a server for my tracking system or inventory management system. and I would like to know is 6 cores or 4 cores enough for the bare minimum or should i get 8 cores or the 16 ...
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How to recover a network device with a static IP and a bad gateway?
Long story short, I made a silly mistake.
I had setup my QNAP NAS to use the IP address 192.168.1.1/24 and 192.168.1.254 as the default gateway.
Using the web configuration interface, I then changed ...
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