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    Server/Nas build reality check

    So here's a thread I started over at anandtech: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2352840 I had several people telling me NOT to buy any server grade equipment or ECC RAM and it was a complete waste of money. I went to verify these statements over on the FreeNAS forums and was...
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    Server/Nas build reality check

    Well, I just built a FreeNAS server with the specs listed in this thread. So far I'm extremely happy with it. The main benefit of FreeNAS is arguably the ZFS file system. Out of the box, it comes with the following plugins: Bacula SD - Backup is a set of backup / recovery / verification...
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    Building a PC-based NAS

    Interesting... haven't seen this before, although it looks very similar in the interface to FreeNAS. Any specific advantages to this over zfs/freenas? I've also recently seen a lot of talk about Synology DSM, but the process for getting it up and going is a bit wonky and I haven't had any...
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    Building a PC-based NAS

    Well, I quit being an idiot and realized that the buffering issues I was seeing was not due to my gig-e network getting saturated, but the terrible performance of the NAS itself. If I can get better NAS performance, I should be fine. So I decided to the FreeNAS route and have the following...
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    Building a PC-based NAS

    Are there any good guides out there? I'm not sure what to aim for with processing power, ram, power supply specs, using on-board controllers vs a separate raid controller, etc. I need it to be windows 7 based, which isn't my first choice, but it will need to serve some additional duties...
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    Want to smash my ReadyNAS NV+!!!

    All of the processing limitation talk comes from my discussions on anandtech. Feel free to check it out and let me know if you disagree. I value your opinion highly, so if you have more input I would love to hear it! http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2352439
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    Want to smash my ReadyNAS NV+!!!

    Well I just realized the bulk of my problem is that my HTPC is not just streaming files from my NAS, but downloading, processing, and copying files back to my NAS. With a weak processor in my NAS, it is a major bottleneck that doesn't come close to the actual networking bandwidth on my gigabit...
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    Want to smash my ReadyNAS NV+!!!

    So I've never been happy with this thing and I just got a lot unhappier... My family uses my HTPC constantly in our living room as our main source of watching tv shows and movies stored on my NAS. Occasionally, the HTPC processes large files and moves them to the NAS. When this happens while...
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    Can WD's Red Drives Speed Up Your NAS?

    I have a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ with 4 2TB green drives and was ready to smash the thing. Constant errors, the whole thing would lock up randomly, web ui became unreponsive, and eventually I had my first drive failure. Replaced it and in no time it all started happening again. Second drive...
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    Can you buy decent consumer routers without Wifi?

    Well after reading more posts I see there are several wired only routers, tplink seemingly being the most popular. Their SOHO routers are extremely cheap and I have no use for dual-wan, so I'm not sure that those would perform better than my cisco e4200. Would that be a safe assumption? I...
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    10 mb/s on a gigabit network? Why?

    Do you mean forcing the port to 1000mbps/full? I've seen tons of problems in the past with hardware not auto negotiating correctly. Lots of emphasis on the past, so I don't know if modern hardware has eliminated those issues, but if he's only seeing 10mbps speeds and has solid cat5e or cat6...
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    10 mb/s on a gigabit network? Why?

    Could the laptops nic be set to 10/full? Or possibly even auto and it's not auto sensing properly? Maybe you can manually set the interfaces on both the nas and the laptop to 1000.
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    Tapping into existing ethernet...

    I discovered that there are 2 cat5 cables coming in from the demarcation point outside my house. One uses 2 pair for internet and the other uses 1 pair for phones. The giant mess of cat 5 cables that are all spliced together are mainly for phone, then they ran 1 cat5 to my office. Wires 1, 2...
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    Can you buy decent consumer routers without Wifi?

    Absolutely... that's why I'm trying to figure out what "backbone" router/switch combo to use to wire everything in. I actually currently use a Cisco/Linksys e4200 with Tomato firmware in my living room as a wireless ethernet bridge to connect my HTPC, PS3, receiver, TV and DirecTV box to the...
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    Can you buy decent consumer routers without Wifi?

    ooh or this switch... even cheaper http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QUA6RA/?tag=snbforums-20
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    Can you buy decent consumer routers without Wifi?

    Well I guess the router itself doesn't need to have gigabit ports since my internet connection is only 10mbps (hopefully 40 soon). I have a spare Asus wl-500g v2 router and a spare Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 router. Maybe I'll just use one of those connected to that cheap D-Link DGS-1008G 8 port...
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    Can you buy decent consumer routers without Wifi?

    I'd like to revive this thread with the same basic question. I currently have my AP in my office with a connected NAS full of media. Some of the media is blu ray rips that stutter on my home theater pc across a wireless connection. I have fiber to the premisses and would like to put a router...
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    Tapping into existing ethernet...

    I have fiber internet through my provider. I honestly have no idea how it works, but in my basement near my foundation I have a cluster F of spliced together, tied together ethernet cables. Long story short, one ethernet cable runs the length of my house through the basement and up through the...
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    Sick of my Netgear ReadyNAS NV+

    I've had nothing but problems with this thing. I'm sick of it. I have 4x2TB WD hard drives in it running RAID 5. It does nothing but freeze up, have I/O errors, and make me crazy. It never reports errors correctly and the only way you know something is wrong is when you can't access the web...
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