Will 5 Terabyte NAS drive be compatible with Windows XP SP3 32 bit?

March 16th, 2013
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backup
nas
windows
windows-xp

Question (NOTE: The operating system (in this case Windows XP SP3 32 bit) we are using is not a choice.) I am trying to setup a short term storage device. First, I found a large 5 Terabyte NAS drive that would IMO fulfill my storage requirements. Second, I also found that Windows XP seems to [...]

Netgear RND2000 diskless NAS, is it really that noisy?

December 23rd, 2012
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netgear
noise

Question I have just received from Amazon the Netgear RND2000 Diskless NAS (cough..won on SU contest). I don’t have Sata Hard disks at home so I just turned it ON to check the boot. After a loud noise at start, fan goes down but stays louder than a standard pc. From your experience, is that [...]

External Harddrive or NAS for mac/win home

May 30th, 2012
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nas
wireless-router

Question I want to backup data both from my macbook and windows desktop. Is it possible using a NAS like LaCie Network Space 2 to backup data from both the machines on the server. I ‘m guessing I will have to partition the drive and then store the data separately on the respective drives. Secondly [...]

Telnet or SSH to Embedded Linux based NAS?

May 11th, 2012
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lg
nas

Question Do you happen to know whether it is possible to telnet or SSH to LG N1A1DD1 NAS? It seems to have lots of features that I don’t need (including FTP) but I couldn’t find any mention of the ability to telnet or SSH to it. If telneting or SSH-ing to it isn’t possible, do [...]

Can you add a hard drive to a RAID?

May 6th, 2012
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hard-drive
nas
raid
software-raid

Question I’ve decided on creating a NAS running FreeNAS using a software RAID 5 setup. I want to start the RAID with 2x2TB drives and slowly add more 2TB drives as I go. Is this possible? If I have a full RAID 5, can I add another drive to it without erasing the previous drives? [...]

Can I pull one HDD from RAID1 and still use 2-bay QNAP NAS?

May 4th, 2012
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nas
raid-1

Question I have a QNAP TS-239 Pro II+ with 2 x 2 TB HDDs in RAID1. I’m running 3.6.0 Build0210 firmware. I access the NAS from my iMac (OS X 10.7.x). The NAS HDDs are formatted as ext4. I’m sitting at about 90% capacity now and before it gets any fuller I’d like to sort [...]

Are there any home/soho NAS devices that will backup/sync to the cloud?

April 21st, 2012
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online-backup
online-storage

Question Looking for a home office (SOHO) market (priced) network hard drive (NAS) that will sync some or all of its content to a cloud-based backup service (preferably stored to Amazon S3 for reliability/redundancy…) The only option I’ve been able to find so far is NetGear’s ReadyNAS Vault however from what I’ve read it’s not [...]

Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH and 3TB WD My Book Essential

April 17th, 2012
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nas
router
usb-storage
western-digital

Question I have a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH and a 3TB Western Digital MyBook Essential that I wish to use as a NAS, I have formatted the drive with a single XFS partition, but when I plug it into the router the Disk Management page says “No identifiable partitions.” Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Ben [...]

NAS Port forwarding

April 8th, 2012
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nas
port

Question So I have a NAS. According to the website I should be opening port 80 (for the web interface), port 443 (HTTPS), 20 and 21 for FTP and some random range for torrent downloading (I kinda don’t need it, but I did it anyway). So let’s say my external IP is 80.80.80.80 and the [...]

Lacie 2big network: can’t connect, tells me to reconnect in a few minutes

March 30th, 2012
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Question My Lacie 2big network NAS is acting weird. When I visit the web admin page, it is loading for a while and then stops telling me to reconnect in a minute. When I use the Lacie network assistant and go to Volumes and click the Authentication button and enter my user details, it says [...]

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