Help NAS drives (again, again)

[Embattle]

Transmission HowTo - SynologyWiki

 

[Trem]

Transmission HowTo - SynologyWiki

Yeah, see, thats already beyond me. Simply could not be arsed with all that command line AIDS, I just want to download the file then install it onto my NAS, which is what I did with Transmission on the RN Duo.

Not everyone is a Jonty you know

 

[MYstIC G]

Dunno if you know about Transmission Remote then Tremlington. It's a uTorrent like windows app that lets you manage your Transmission installation on your ReadyNAS (or any other NAS) way more easily

transmission-remote-dotnet - A µTorrent like Windows remote control for the Transmission BitTorrent client (transmission-daemon) - Google Project Hosting

 

[soze]

Might be old news to some but since installing sabnzb i have come across Sick Beard (Synology) which is like installing Sky Plus on your NAS. When it is set up it will sync all your TV shows and DL new episodes automatically. Very cool.

 

[old.user4556]

On that note, can someone suggest a robust and easy source for top quality TV shows? I don't want bawz sound, or super compressed; I want pristine, bandwidth hogging, 720p goodness.

 

[inactionman]

Damn, Sick Beard looks great, plus there's a port for my Readynas. Hope the torrent support improves, as I don't use usenet (I suspect it's likely to get stomped into the group by the MAFFIAA soon).

 

[MYstIC G]

Which one you got inaction? Last I checked you could either do it by way of epic cludge or you had to pay a dude on the ReadyNAS forums for the .bin installer but he was charging for every upgrade.

 

[inactionman]

I'm on holiday in the US, so all I've done is seen there's a port on the sick beard forums giving installation instructions. If some guy is charging, it's GPL software, so he's boned.

 

[MYstIC G]

Nah, he's not boned. He charges for his installation .bin file (the ones like the system updates) that installs everything for you.

Cheers for the link though, I didn't want to pay him for it and those are for the Duo so \o/

 

[soze]

I finished setting this up last night, turned my NAS on this morning and when I got back from brushing my teeth "The Event" had finished downloading and had been renamed and moved to the right folder. It told XBMC I had it and I was watching it seconds later. Modern technology is fantastic.

 

[MYstIC G]

I'm on holiday in the US, so all I've done is seen there's a port on the sick beard forums giving installation instructions. If some guy is charging, it's GPL software, so he's boned.

I've got it running on my ReadyNAS Duo.

Couple of tips:

• The scripts for launch aren't quite right and you need to make sure it says "python2.5" and not "python" wherever it's used.
• Unless you love vi also do "apt-get -y install nano" which I personally find much more useable

 

[MYstIC G]

Few more tips

• The make processes took ages (circa 2/3 hours)
• If you have stuff that you're going to import to Sick Beard it will take ages
• Sick Beard import will slow down most connections in general
• SABnzbd is best launched first time with a command line where you specify a port (i used 8082). Then configure it through the gui, shut it down from the gui and then start it from the script.

 

[Ch3tan]

Seems you can do a lot with ridiculously cheap netgear STORA nas,,, OpenStora

 

[Ch3tan]

So torn - the good readynas costs almost as much as the synology.

 

[MYstIC G]

OpenStora

Only one on there that I've not seen on ReadyNAS yet is Hamachi but then I've not looked tbh.

 

[soze]

HP ProLiant Microserver

If you can live without Raid 5 this is the best solution imo. After the £100 cash back you have a 4 bay server for £120. Throw on FreeNAS or Windows if you have a spare copy and its a excellent box for the money.

 

[Ch3tan]

HP ProLiant Microserver

If you can live without Raid 5 this is the best solution imo. After the £100 cash back you have a 4 bay server for £120. Throw on FreeNAS or Windows if you have a spare copy and its a excellent box for the money.

Very appealing - if I stuck freenas or windows on, could I use that to stream to my ps3, use torrent client etc?

Seems far more powerful than the readynas etc, for a fraction of the price, and upgradeable too. What's the catch?

 

[MYstIC G]

FreeNAS just went shit. If I remember correctly it now just does the storage. That + Linux would doubtless do ya.

 

[soze]

I think the lack of raid 5 is its biggest weakness. But when you think you could add a graphics card to it then use that as an XBMC box? Add a torrent / nzb client and it goes from download to watch all on one box. And they are fairly quiet as well just one 14cm fan in the box.

 

[Kryten]

Freenas has gone far from shit IMO - the updates make the new version a very serious competitor to any off the shelf NAS system and still with the ability to add features you need. If you really must stream media, torrent etc then the older versions are still available

 

[Ch3tan]

I really must stream media!

 

[MYstIC G]

Freenas has gone far from shit IMO - the updates make the new version a very serious competitor to any off the shelf NAS system and still with the ability to add features you need. If you really must stream media, torrent etc then the older versions are still available

I really must stream media!

*slaps Kryt*

FreeNAS is great but it's far from the Synology/QNAP/ReadyNAS boxes of this world where things are drop in, work, drop out

 

[MYstIC G]

Actually I need to get my head around a couple of things now which have, after thinking, got me tempted to get the HP.

1. If this thing is standard SATA presumably it'd take SSD drives?
2. Any examples of the graphics cards you could bung in it or small factor PCIe cards in general
3. Can you get half height blu-ray drives?

 

[soze]

It has "hot plug" SATA drives. The drives screw into a plastic tray which then slides into the bay. I think it would take an ssd but you would need a cage which presents the sata and power at the same place a a 3.5 inch drive. The mb only has one SATA on it and the disk cage connects VIA SAS by the looks of it so a work around would be fairly messy.

As for working graphics card i would look here where a few people have mentioned cards that fit.

I have added a full size DVD RW to mine but if you were looking to add 2 I think you would need an additional PCI Sata card as again I am fairly sure the MB only had one on it.

 

[Ch3tan]

soze; how easy would that be for me to set up as a media server? I'm not too fussed about auto-torrenting, I tend to download what I want when I want it. What is essential for me is a device I can use to stream music and video around the house. How does it cope with hi-def content? For example I currently use my PC to send stuff to my Ps3 using ps3mediaserver and that transcodes stuff on the fly - would this have the horsepower to do that?

 

[soze]

soze; how easy would that be for me to set up as a media server? I'm not too fussed about auto-torrenting, I tend to download what I want when I want it. What is essential for me is a device I can use to stream music and video around the house. How does it cope with hi-def content? For example I currently use my PC to send stuff to my Ps3 using ps3mediaserver and that transcodes stuff on the fly - would this have the horsepower to do that?

According to this when you add the right graphics card it has the guts to do 1080p rips fine. I have a revo running as my xbmc machine so it is not something i was planing to test. But as the machine has the guts I don't see why you could not run Windows on it and the Windows version of XBMC. Which you could use to manage the media saved on it and remove the PS3 from the equation.

 

[Ch3tan]

The reason the PS3 is important is that it's hooked up to my a/v receiver.

 

[Ch3tan]

Ahh no worries, I see, hdmi out over the graphics card... interesting.

 

[MYstIC G]

I'm now seriously considering one of these HP boxes with a pair of these drives. Since it's effectively a PC and anything can be run on it I would have no issues sticking *nix or FreeNAS on and tinkering behind the scenes to get what I want.

Scan.co.uk: Samsung HD204UI/Z4 2TB Spinpoint F4 Hard Drive SATA II 3Gb/s
Scan.co.uk: Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green Hard Drive - HDD - WD20EARS

Anyone know of any better storage deals going on at the moment?

Oh and Kryten, it seems FreeNAS are listening to the fact that most people want it for HTPC server purposes: FreeNAS 8.0 | News & Updates so I'll let them off now

 

[MYstIC G]

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