![]() It’s a bit of work to set up Linux to act properly but it is worth the effort. I built a small, cheap computer 4 years ago for a server running Debian Linux. Make sure you have plenty of drives to back up your data… Or just as a temporary store in case you need to do some operations that could potentially destroy your data Use linux (Or bsd if you are a hipster… No but really those 10 gig cards can have trouble on bsd) You can use SSDs for caching but somewhat unnecessary if you only have gigabitīelieve it or not CPU speed does play a role in a speedy stable NAS so don’t get something too cheap at least a modern quad core (I use a Thread Ripper :D) Plenty of ram, 4GB minimum, 16GB recommended (The more you have the more data you can move before slowing down) Though you can daisy chain or build your own router just by using multiple of those 10 gig cards The only problem with that is you cant really buy a switch or router that has many of those ports for less than the price of a new car. Or you can get sfp+ cards on ebay for like 30 dollars and get 10 gigabit. Id strongly advise against using a raspberry pi as a server, They are horribly slow and have very poor IO capabilities.īuild a machine with gigabit. Stay safe also and a big thank you again.I use open media vault in combination with CIFS/NFS/FTP and Synchthing for versioning on my important crap. Thank you for your reply! Happy new year to you. Then my Raspberry Pi Model B can be re-used for another project! Which is great news, if it works it means I have successfully re-used what I thought would be nothing more than a a bit of landfill or an attic box filler. ![]() Your post has given me some food for thought Looking at the plugin page you have linked too, it shows me the Syncthing plugin for the 320L, which is excatly what I want, Syncthing However unless the latest firmware will support a 6TB disk then this will be a little useless as I plan to use 2圆TB disks.īut if the above is not good for what I need, I noted the Alt-F supports upto 8TB disks so this could well work! And a quick Google search turns up that Alt-F could well work with Syncthing which will provide me with what I want! However if I work fast and do this in the next 24 hours it may live to see the final day of this bizarre year that is known as 2020. Thank you for your reply! I am afriad to say maybe you are the last person to use it, mine has been 'retired' for many years, it's been sat, spun down for more than 1095 days. I have no idea if this is even possible but thought I would reach out to the community and see what other have done with what is now an ageing box which for most people have probably reached the end of life or like mine, been sat in a cupboard for years gathering dust.Īny input, help, advice, tips would be great. I assume that it runs on a version on Linux and it would be just a simple case of SSHing in and installing it, but then I don't want the NAS to be running it's software in the background, I'm more thinking of removing it altogether in favour or running a Damn Small Linux or Raspian Lite. So my idea was to install Syncthing on the DNS320. I'm no Linux expert and getting Syncthing to work on my Pi has taken longer than it should be hey, it's something I enjoy doing and why the hell not try new stuff out I like to try and repurpose old stuff, for example the Pi I am using the Legacy Model B and TBH it works pretty damn well for what I want it to. ![]() So whats all this got to the the DNS320? Well I want a nice little case for Raspberry Pi and the two HDDs I'll be using, I was thinking of ripping it apart and using the shell to house it all but the chances are this probably wouldn't go well, so this got me thinking again. I setup a test Raspberry Pi using Syncthing, an open source program that runs on the Pi and on my Phone and syncs, this can be done with as many devices as I want to install Syncthing on. I am happy with my 1815+ backup but I want another backup which got my down the Raspberry Pie root, having two sat in my draws for years doing nothing I decided to see what options I could employ with one, which gets me on to the idea. I explored numoures options, including using my currently Synology 1815+ for photo backup and Degoo, which I am currently using to 'test the waters'. I understand that the DNS320 is rather out of date, but I think it could still have a use! I have recently been on the look out for Photo Storage as I imagine you know Google are ending there unilimted storage for free. I have since sold my business and took the device with me and it's been sat in my home office for the last 3 years doing nothing. I have a 320 that I used to use for an onsite backup in my retial premises for many years, it was used for transfering the epos files everynight.
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