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Questions tagged [network-attached-storage]

NAS stands for Network Attached Storage, a mechanism for providing file-level access to storage across a network.

NAS systems are generally formed of a RAID array (or multiples thereof) of disks, and a file server providing a number of different protocols, often NFS and CIFS (SMB), and sometimes AFP which provide file-level access to a number of different clients.

NAS devices can be compared to SAN systems, where the NAS provides storage and a filesystem, but the SAN only provides storage, and leaves the filesystem level decisions down to the client.

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Maximum number of hard drives in a build-your-own NAS solution

My IT department has a bunch of older 160/320GB Drives. I'd like to use them in a build-your-own NAS device. What limitations exist in regards to the maximum number of drives that can be connected to typical commodity hardware that might be used in…
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What's the best protocol to use for a NAS server?

I'm thinking of setting up a new box as a dedicated file server and I was wondering if there was any sort of consensus on what the best file sharing protocol to use would be. I use SMB right now, but I find it slow (over WAN), and quite insecure. I…
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File replication program for Linux

For my disaster recovery plan I am looking for a free/open source file replication program which could copy all files including open/busy files to a remote server. Would appreciate any suggestions or help.
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I need an affordable, mass storage system. For under £1000. Possible?

I've got a budget of £1000, but really I'd like it for less than that. I want to set up a 20TB+ storage system for a project I'm working on that will use roughly 15TB, and the rest for storing photos, music, movies and games. Not all 20TB will be…
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How to run a scan on NAS system

For the NAS sharepoints and NAS storage, is it possible someone can run a scan and tell if there are any .exe or .bat files on the NAS systems? (EMC CELERRA) The customer mentioned to me today that he was concerned his environment had executables…
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Is it possible to create a backup RAID 5 on a nas by replacing 1 drive at a time?

During a recent office relocation my QNAP TS-509 (RAID 5 with 4 2tb WD Red) wouldn't boot properly and fooling around trying to correct that I lost the volume. As I was expanding my very limited understanding of RAID and lamenting the fact the the…
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Does 6 cores ryzen 5 3600 x or 8 cores ryzen 7 3800x or intel i7 6700k or ryzen 9 3950x used for website/Nas enterprise based server

I was thinking to set up a server for my tracking system or inventory management system. and I would like to know is 6 cores or 4 cores enough for the bare minimum or should i get 8 cores or the 16 cores cpu because I don't want to buy some overkill…
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Synology NAS 3 HDDs corrupted

Its the first time I am interacting with NAS. In our NAS Server we have 5 hard disks and three out of five are now corrupted. Do we need to buy 5 new HDDs or we can buy 3 HDDs and used the old two Hard disks with the new ones. Thanks!
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Which will have more faster for backups between usb drive on vm or NAS drive

I have IBM server with SAS drives and ESXi Server with many VM (not production). Now for backups of VM i have two options But NAS drive and use that on network Get USB drive , attach to FreeNAS VM on Esxi server and then backup there I want to…
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Data Redundant for 2 NAS device

Wanna ask whether is it possible to have data redundant in 2 different NAS device under the same network? I have a NAS device (Dlink 2 Bay Share Center) with 2x 1TB HDD configured in Raid 1. Of course I have no problem if either one of the HDD…
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backup and file server for 50+ TB of data

our office wants to build a new server to handle our data, over the last 10 years our data was stored on CDs, DVDs, HDDs but now they want all of it in one place that is attached to the network for everybody in the office to access it. the data is…
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Want to install OwnCloud on Netgear wndr3400 Router

I would like to install OwnCloud (http://owncloud.org/) on my Netgear router. It requires PHP and MySQL. I would like to use the router's ReadyShare NAS to share a drive that I would plug in to the USB port and then to run the OwnCloud service from…
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What is the maximum theoretical throughput of a Thunderbolt + Mac Mini fileserver

Bounty 100 rep coming: I know I'm asking a lot here and I'd like a detailed/quality answer so, as soon as I am able, I'll be adding a 100 rep bounty to this question. I'm trying to illustrate the problem of this setup to my superiors but I'm not a…
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Would a server with a NAS mounted be an issue for this?

I am writing a web app and trying to decide the best set up for this. Here is the background. The web app will be for independent film makers. The film makers will be uploading quite large movie files. The web app will encode them into flash so it…
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Is it possible to use a ftps server (NAS) to use as a virtual hard drive in VMware vSphere Hypervisor, if so, how?

The title explains most of it. Basically, let's say I have a NAS(I don't). I want to allow another computer to use it as storage for a virtual machine on VMware vSphere Hypervisor. The software on the NAS will most likely be QTS by QNAP.
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