Category: NAS

WD Red NAS Hard Drive 4TB

Post author By liutyi
Post date 2015-07-30
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After 2.5 years of usage, my old backup drive (Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB) failed. Drive usage was minimal, but it was on 24/7. New disk decided to be NAS specialized 4.0 TB. Since I believe, it will be backup for this and next generation of home storage. I hope it will serve more than 2.5 year. So this time disk is WD Red NAS Hard Drive 4.0 TB WD40EFRX.

Before start using it as eSATA backup did some speed tests using USB 3.0 connection to Windows 7 PC.

CrystalDiskMark 3

CrystalDiskMark 5

HD Tune 5.60

Tags CrystalDiskMark, CrystalDyskMark5

NAS Synology

ipkg on Synology NAS.

Just to keep the note for myself:

1. Read WIKI. For DS213+ (e500, e500v2)
wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/syno-e500/cross/unstable/syno-e500-bootstrap_1.2-7_powerpc.xsh sh syno-e500-bootstrap_1.2-7_powerpc.xsh
2. add /opt to path
vi .profile PATH=..:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin
3. Logout and Login again to apply PATHs.
4. update ipkg and install some tools
ipkg-opt update ipkg-opt install mc ipkg install mlocate updatedb

mc_on_DS213p_619px

NAS Synology Uncategorized

SynologyDSM 4.2 released. issues and workarounds.

Post author By liutyi
Post date 2013-03-05
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As usual ipkg (and software like Midnight Commander) will stop work after firmware update. Solution as usual:

vi /root/.profile
ln -s /volume1/@optware /opt
. /root/.profile
mc

.profile

# add /opt/bin and /opt/sbin to PATH
PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/syno/sbin:/usr/syno/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
# comment out old TERM
#TERM=${TERM:-cons25}
#export TERM
# add new for Midnight Commander
export TERMINFO=/opt/share/terminfo
export TERM=xterm
alias mc="mc -c"

NAS

Synology as a web server for speedtest.net mini

Post author By liutyi
Post date 2013-02-22
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To test wireless speed that will show results that is not depend on your Internet Service Provider Speedtest mini could be used.

1. Download http://c.speedtest.net/mini/mini.zip (95 MB)
2. Install it on your local web server (Synology in my case).

See the results:

speedtest_mini_begin

speedtest_mini_test

Tags speedtest

NAS

Synology DS-209+ vs DS-213+

Post author By liutyi
Post date 2013-01-26
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Important update to post:
Text below is first look on Synology DS213+. Those first result is actually incorrect. Low Read/Write speed in tables below (70/50 MB/s max. with idle CPU and DISK) instead of 110/80 MB/s caused by low quality wired gigabit LAN. In case of perfect gigabit LAN speed much better. Will not remove the post just to note this test issue.

RAID1
Read MB/s	48.1	54.7
CPU Load read	100%	50%
Write MB/s	18.2	51.2
CPU Load write	100%	80%
CPU	Freescale PowerQUICC MPC8533EPB (1x800MHz)	Freescale QorlQ P1022 (2x1067MHz)
MEM	64-bit DDR3 512MB	64-bit DDR3 512MB
ports	eSATA, USB2.0	eSATA, USB3.0*, SD
other	small	big fan, hotplug

Some thing that makes upgrade not perfect is external USB 3.0 disk disconnects somewhere in the middle of file copy. eSATA work perfect.