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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   11 Oct 2020 12:48 
 To:  Dave!!      15 of 41 
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After being called out they've been a more upfront about and (IIRC) have discontinued using SMR in their WD Red line (also they claim their firmware compensates for SMR speed drawbacks -- but it doesn't work in RAID). You could still get caught out by resellers though. Since Ant is not going with RAID he wouldn't benefit from using NAS drives anyway (they are generally slower and more expensive than desktop drives).
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS    12 Oct 2020 07:50 
 To:  Dave!!      16 of 41 
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I'm just chucking in an old 1TB drive I have lying around.
No intention to make this anything more than that unless I have another bigger spare drive at some point in the future.
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 From:  Dave!!   13 Oct 2020 07:21 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      17 of 41 
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I wasn't aware that they'd backtracked on this. Instead I thought they'd introduced a new line called "Red Pro" which avoids SMR drives. Either way, their normal Red drives are shit for NAS enclosures unless (as you say) you don't plan to use RAID with them.

Another thing incidentally they've been found out for recently is claiming that some drives are 5400rpm when they're actually 7200rpm. They even doctored the firmware to report the slower spindle speed. May not sound like a massive deal, but if you're buying a lot of drives to pack into an enclosure that will be on 24/7, the additional heat output and power drain of the drives may come as an unwelcome surprise.

Anyway, until they stop all this fucking around, I'm avoiding WD drives until they can learn how to tell the truth and market their stuff with some degree of honesty.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS    20 Oct 2020 13:18 
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It hasn't arrived yet but already potentially regretting buying something with only 100mbit ethernet.

Maybe 300mbit on WiFi will be ok
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   20 Oct 2020 18:39 
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Preload the drive before you stick it in the box?
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 From:  koswix   21 Oct 2020 19:01 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS       20 of 41 
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Shouldn't need any more than that for usb2.

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   21 Oct 2020 23:21 
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 :-(
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS    22 Oct 2020 08:26 
 To:  koswix      22 of 41 
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DIFFERENT NAS :C
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)   22 Oct 2020 13:00 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS       23 of 41 
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Does it support some sort of ethernet over USB whachumacallit? Or can it be connected directly to your router? It's got USB3.

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 From:  ANT_THOMAS    22 Oct 2020 13:11 
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Possibly, worth a look. Though think the USB3 may be for connecting it to a computer as an external drive, but to be honest no idea since it's an odd little device.

Good news, it's in the UK at Atherstone RDC, hopefully arrive soon enough.
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 From:  Dave!!   22 Oct 2020 16:50 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS       25 of 41 
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Are you sure it's only 100Mb? I can't see anything that says otherwise, and a YouTube vid that seems to discuss that NAS says it is Gigabit Ethernet.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS    22 Oct 2020 17:04 
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Not sure about anything with this device to be honest!
I will find out when it arrives and I'll give it a thorough review, then probably brick it installing Open-WRT.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS    23 Oct 2020 08:25 
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Been stung for customs. That adds £13.58 to the total (£8 handing fee!!).

Anyone else seen an increase in customs charges lately on stuff from China?

I've had many very expensive items slip through without checks or charges in the past. Lately I've had a couple of relatively cheap things (<£50) get charges added.

Not sure if these Chinese sellers have started declaring things correctly and not as £2 and a gift!
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   23 Oct 2020 10:42 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS       28 of 41 
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We got a $25 web cam shipped to Ca, no added charge. It did take ~3-months.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS    23 Oct 2020 12:34 
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https://www.notebookcheck.net/ODROID-HC4-A-Raspberry-Pi-alternative-that-doubles-as-a-dual-NAS.498839.0.html

Interesting. Rather it be a unit without a drive sticking out of the top, but could put it in a box I guess!
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 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.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   28 Oct 2020 11:09 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS       31 of 41 
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Same model #, not sure if it's the same device (video shows attempting to connect via mobile app):

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 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.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   28 Oct 2020 15:56 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS       33 of 41 
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Had you got the ethernet working, or did you decide to chance it?
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS    28 Oct 2020 17:05 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      34 of 41 
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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.
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