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1 or 2 Bay NAS-medo
From: ANT_THOMAS
28 Oct 2020 09:55
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Well it's arrived, and it's a fairly well built unit.
US power supply though.
One large issue, ethernet doesn't seem to be working
:@
Wifi does, but don't want to risk installing openwrt if ethernet is screwed.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
28 Oct 2020 11:09
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Same model #, not sure if it's the same device (video shows attempting to connect via mobile app):
From: ANT_THOMAS
28 Oct 2020 15:51
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WiFi was working fine.
Device is now bricked after I tried to install OpenWRT
:'D
I'll have to wait until I'm near my soldering iron to attach a serial adapter and sort it out.
EDITED: 28 Oct 2020 15:51 by ANT_THOMAS
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
28 Oct 2020 15:56
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Had you got the ethernet working, or did you decide to chance it?
From: ANT_THOMAS
28 Oct 2020 17:05
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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Chanced it. Like the fool I am.
Confident I'll be able to at least return it to the state I got it in though. Maybe. We'll see. Already created a dispute on aliexpress since it wasn't functioning right at the start.
From: ANT_THOMAS
31 Oct 2020 14:56
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Currently trying to get a refund for the device and using it as a USB drive with a RPi 2 as the USB bit seems to run separately from the network side of things.
I've unsurprisingly come to the conclusion that it isn't the 90s and I can't cope with 100mbit transfer speeds.
I think a RPi 4 instead will be what I end up going for. Gigabit network and USB 3. May as well just order one now.
From: ANT_THOMAS
4 Nov 2020 14:19
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Pi4 arrived. Swapped the microSD from the Pi2 to the Pi4 and it booted perfectly first time.
Gigabit and USB3 speeds. Much better.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
4 Nov 2020 19:14
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Good stuff. Any news on getting the brick refunded?
From: ANT_THOMAS
28 Nov 2020 11:29
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Got a partial refund. Appealed it. Not heard anything back otherwise.
From: ANT_THOMAS
28 Nov 2020 11:35
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A little mini NAS update because why not.
Running nicely. Wrote a simple little script to rsync over ssh and copy data back to my home server each night. Starts at 00:30 and runs for 8 hours using the "time limit" parameter on rsync. Had a couple of nights where it has stopped early when there's data left to copy, but I think that's probably the connection dropping out and it not continuing. Does the rest the next night so it's not a disaster.
One thing about the "time limit" option is that it needs to be supported at both ends. I wasn't aware that rsync needed rsync at both ends, hadn't really thought about how it worked tbh. So initially the rsync version on my home server was too old and didn't have the new time limit feature. Had to compile from source, but then that worked fine.
Can probably copy around 19GB in that period.