Mac user reports on NAS & Wireless connected NASMac user reports on NAS & Wireless connected NASReports/Info last Updated: Feb 1. Drobo FS and 5. N)(Added FYI on NDAS driver Status on 3/2. I reformatted the hard drive on my computer and had a full backup on the Maxtor One Touch III Mini. However, the Maxtor One Touch III is locked and I. CD Contents Antivirus Tools ComboFix (0404): Designed to cleanup malware infections and restore settings modified by malware (Windows Freeware). This page is a catch-all for reader reports on Mac NAS (Network Attached Storage), some including notes on Wireless connected NAS (after a reader request for info). I've got a Maxtor OneTouch III Mini external USB drive that I use at work for storing and transporting files. Last week, they had to put a new hard drive. International Component Repair (ICR) is a designated FAA Repair Station (ICRR255X) and an EASA Certificate 145.5663 holder. We repair commercial aircraft and engine. To run the utility make a. Now I’m finding a way to hack windows admin password and don’t change the password. I know If you forgot your windows password, you can reset or remove. CD Contents Antivirus Tools ComboFix (24-09-2010): Designed to cleanup malware infections and restore settings modified by malware (Windows Freeware). Maxtor Unlock Utility DownloadThis page is a catch- all for reader reports on Mac NAS (Network Attached Storage), some including notes. Wireless connected NAS after a reader request for Mac user feedback. After two years and two weeks of continuous service I encountered a serious problem, and this is an account of what happened. I regard it as mostly a good- news story, but others may not see it that way. I also add some info about the newer 5. N version. The first clue that something might be wrong actually came in early December 2. OK. On doing some internet reading, I came to the conclusion that this was perhaps a feature not a bug, as one really should not use forward slashes in file names even with Mac systems. Some Mac applications will not save files with names including the forward slash character. Still, everything seemed to be working as usual otherwise. I measured one transfer at a mere 4 MB/sec - lower than the usual slowest transfer speed. The last thing I was able to do was to delete a single file, and that took about ten minutes! A look at the Drobo log showed errors, but no more frequently than when the errors started in early December! Then the Drobo seemed to drop off the network. Drobo Dashboard could no longer see it, nor could the Mac Finder. A network pinger could still see it, however. Then the Drobo entered into a continual re- start mode. I shut it down: it took a while to respond to the manual shut- down switch, but it did. I presumed that the unit had developed a failure of the network interface - and possibly other things - and might need repair, but that the data was probably still good. The unit was still showing 5 green lights. The main potential loss was that the Drobo held one share with duplicates of media files for i. Tunes streaming. It was not that the data would be hard to replace, but rather that I had no record of what was there and how it was organized. It did show up in Drobo Dashboard, but immediately went into . At one stage it told me it needed more space in order to complete the job, advising me to replace one of the smaller disks with a larger one. I replaced a 1 TB disk with a 2 TB disk and it seemed to be happy. After about 2. 4 hrs of churning away it again showed 5 green lights, but also announced a . In the Data Robotics Knowledge Base I learned that this generally indicates that the UNIX system software on the unit is corrupt. If I updated the firmware and Dashboard software, I would have access to a . It might take 4. 8 hours, though, and might have to be done twice. After about 1. 6 hours it reported a disk failure, but seemed to be otherwise happy to continue. I phoned Data Robotics to find out if I should replace the failed disk at this stage. The removed disk really was . I tested about 1. A minor issue was that what had been separate . Inside the folders representing each of the former shares, the files were all there. In Icon View, the icons seemed to be in all the right places even! The first thing I did was to print out a copy of file directory of the . The second thing was to back up that share to a hard drive. In creating this back- up there was an issue where one folder would not copy ! Strange, but I've seen that happen working just with multiple drives on a single Mac. This was no problem; I had placed older, lower- capacity disks in this unit for the experiment. No hardware repair required - apparently! The unit is still working fine after over a week of continuous use. There are indeed other possible issues besides drive failures. I'm not sure that I would even trust two units as a complete back- up solution. One really needs at least an additional off- site back- up of some sort. Recovery from file corruption is possible, if time consuming. Disk arrays are probably harder on disks than using single disks. Expect drive failures. Leave enough unused space on the unit so that even with a failed disk, the unit can recover. I also still find the Drobo Dashboard software to be somewhat flaky. For example, I frequently find that Dashboard on one computer cannot communicate with the Drobo, even though Dashboard on another computer can, and the Mac Finder seems to have no problem. The Drobo usually shows up in a Finder window sidebar just fine, even when Drobo Dashboard can't see it. I will continue to use Dashboard only when I need to. It includes a 6th slot for an m. SATA SSD. It is advertised as being significantly faster than the FS. My brief experience is that it is faster - especially writes - and the speeds seem to be more consistently at the higher end of the range. The Helios Lan. Test shows the read speeds to be lower than for the FS with new firmware, but my experience is that they are essentially similar, except that I have not seen anything slower than about 1. MB/Sec (compared with 5 for the FS). This is for folders containing thousands of small HTML files. On the down- side, the 5. N requires at least OS X 1. Drobo Dashboard. Earlier versions of Dashboard can see the 5. N but some of the data reported is erroneous (like the number of disks it contains!). I do not actually have a Mac running OS X 1. I used the Windows 7 version via Boot. Camp. I noticed that the wake from sleep behavior I reported earlier has not changed, even for the Windows version: 3. Dashboard dismounts any Drobo . The 5. N also does not support the Drobo Apps (. I considered building my own, but then decided that having a small, energy efficient and easy to operate unit was more important to me. After many months of research and investigating I finally picked- up a Synology DS1. The unit itself is extremely well built and I really like the web based interface - it is well laid out and easy to operate. I quickly discovered that when using AFP (or even Samba as a . This behavior is normally masked in the Finder since all files with known extensions will open in the correct applications. However, any files that are not associated with specific applications will attempt to execute in the shell when double- clicked. I also have a problem, in principle, with moving all my data onto the unit, knowing that it will all come back with different permission bits. I have explained this in more detail in the Synology forum here: File permissions are completely broken under AFP. Synology confirmed that this is a . Based on some posts in their forums this has been going on since at least the middle of 2. I cannot believe that none of the raving reviews of the Synology NAS units mentioned this bug, even those describing Synology as being the . The erroneous behaviour occurs with OSX versions 1. Many thanks for all your efforts). Trying latest beta 4. T2 , I fried one unit, it corrupted the onboad NAND memory without any chance of recovery. So it was time to test new product. Did some search online which ended with a choice between QNAP and Synology. The media center streams well to my Samsung (DLNA) as was the Ready. NAS before. Price is about $4. Australia which is 3. Cheaper than a better looking product from QNAP. Very flexible setting, UPS (MGE Pulsar Evolution 1. Highly recommended for Mac user. The disk station is used as a file server and 5 users are working directly from it. Although no specific model# was mentioned, I assumed they were NDAS. Here's his reply. This is the current (Mac) status: www. Temp/html/supports/supports. You can access the files via SMB out the box and the web interface works providing you don't want to alter the top level folder structure, I renames some files and now I'm going to have to spend several hours copying all the files off the drive and starting over. Possible to stream DVD quality (video. TS) video to devices via apple airport extreme (8. NAS to stream video it cause buffering to occur fine with more efficient codecs. We have four 2. TB drives in its and we set it as a RAID 5. It also has a front panel display that allows you to see errors, or do basic setup from the box itself. It's worked flawlessly for 5 months now. I strongly recommend it. But the switches here at work don't support it so I can't really get a sense for how well it works. As soon as I turn on the option from the web GUI it drops off the network and I have to direct connect it to a Mac to access it again. I used the global. SAN i. SCSI initiator software that's free online. Now I just use it as a large backup storage device in RAID 5. The box is great, but my old drives keep failing. Need to buy new WD RE- 4's. I use it with four 2. TB original WD RE- 4's at the moment and they are starting to wear out. I'm not sure if it works with 3. TB drives.- Kevin. Here is what I posted on the Small. Net. Builder. com forum back on November 1. I have always been a fan of building my own NAS. I have dabbled with various Mini- ITX motherboards and *nix distros over the years. Up until a couple weeks ago I had been running freenas based C2. D based NAS with 4x. TB drives. This NAS was good for ~7. Mb/s peek throughput performance. Due to a new tax and an increase in electicity rates, I received a bill that was 2. I immediately decided to invest in lower power equipment. I was leaning towards the Qnap but then newegg. I went with. With this appliance I was going to use 4 WD Caviar greens that I already owned (WD1. EADS). I staged it in my office on my desk. Build quality of this device is excellent. The second thing I noticed once I powered it up was that even though this device has four 1 TB drives in it; it was oscillating less than my La. Cie Quadra 1 TB external hard drive. This was my first clue that this is a first class device. What I find most amazing about the performance is how consistent it is across all protocols. Samba, AFP, nfs, the performance is almost identical. As far as I am concerned this is acceptable performance.
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