sata or IDE gigabit NAS enclosure $25 at geeks.com DEAL DEAD, discussion only

[Rio Rebel]

Earlier in the thread, someone linked a pdf of specs on this device, and it lists "up to 1 TB" drive. In the instructions in the box, it says 750gb. I assume the firmware has to be updated for it to be able to format larger drives.

 

[EXreaction]

Try booting into a linux OS and formatting it in EXT3 through there, then stick it back in the NAS.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: Rio Rebel
Has anyone had trouble formatting a large drive in the SATA NAS? I put in a 1.5 TB Seagate, and I keep trying to format it through the NAS software. Each time, it seems to format (although very quickly), and then resets, and it still says "HD Unable to Use". I'm using the latest firmware (2.1)

The drive powers up fine, and I even put it in my computer and partitioned it, thinking that might be the problem, but still no dice.

Anyone successfully installed a drive bigger than 750gb?

I'm using a 1TB WD in mine right now with no issues.

 

[zoiks]

Damn all you guys who got into this deal. I've been checking the Geek link everyday for the SATA enclosure.

 

[TheSophist]

Originally posted by: EXreaction
My god, the Windows Explorer is such a POS.

Nice error:
Windows can not access\\I-Drive\Private

Details: Access is denied.

Give me a damned password prompt if the access is denied instead of using the account credentials that do not work!

Anyone know how to force Explorer to use different credentials?

Open up a command prompt and use "net use"
Start > run > cmd

net use /delete \\I-Drive\Private
net use \\I-Drive\Private /user:jon

 

[EXreaction]

Thanks for that. Hopefully it continues to work correctly though and I won't have to use it.

 

[alexfort93]

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=NS-384S&cat=CSE

This is just as good, right?

 

[shinson]

Originally posted by: alexfort93
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=NS-384S&cat=CSE

This is just as good, right?

Not quite....

The OP was a Gigabit Ethernet connection and this one is 10/100 Ethernet port.

Not bad for general backup duties or file server, but not that great for streaming A/V.

 

[davechri]

However, it's a great deal if you still run 10/100 Ethernet at home.

 

[mikeford]

Except the same Cat5 wiring works with gigabit, and gigabit is what you will start to see on all new devices. (ok many new devices)

OTOH I think all of the current generation of NAS are solutions that might be useful for a couple years max, then something much better will replace them cheap enough.

 

[punish3r2]

Originally posted by: lokiju
Does anyone know the deal with this iTunes Server?

I enabled it, selected the MP3's on my NAS also, did the rescan and set iTunes to under the Sharing tab to look for shared folders.

But in iTunes when I try and access my "shared" music which is called "music jukebox" I get an error stating...

"The Shared library "Music Jukebox" is not responding. Check that any firewall software running on either the shared computer or this computer has been set to allow communication on port 3689"

I have port 3689 wide open.

Has anyone else gotten this iTunes feature working?

Every time I've tried to activate the iTunes Server feature it causes the NAS to disappear off my network and I have to do a hard reset and upload my settings again.

More than anything at this point, I'm interested in seeing if anyone has run OpenNAS (or some other Linux install besides the POS firmware from the manufacturer) on this unit. The MPC8241 is used in some other hardware that is listed as compatible with OpenNAS.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: alexfort93
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=NS-384S&cat=CSE

This is just as good, right?

i think most of the other NAS things that geeks have , need a driver or something.

 

[Rio Rebel]

Originally posted by: EXreaction
Try booting into a linux OS and formatting it in EXT3 through there, then stick it back in the NAS.

That sounded like a good idea. I just tried it and no dice.

I'm giving up and putting in a smaller drive. It sounds like even with the firmware update, we are limited to 1TB.

 

[mikeford]

Did you try formatting as two drives?

 

[Rio Rebel]

Well, the smaller drive seems to be working great. So it looks like you simply are limited to what the specs say on the version of the firmware you are using. No 1.5 TB drives

I did think about partitioning the drive into 2, but I assume that would mean losing some space, and I'd prefer to use my 320gb drive rather than losing half a TB of space for the NAS.

 

[Monotaur]

Out of curiosity, did anyone get one of these who no longer wants it? I missed out on the deal...

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: shinson

Originally posted by: alexfort93
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=NS-384S&cat=CSE

This is just as good, right?

Not quite....

The OP was a Gigabit Ethernet connection and this one is 10/100 Ethernet port.

Not bad for general backup duties or file server, but not that great for streaming A/V.

I beg to differ. I got what everyone here called was a pos, the netgear Sc101, which is a 10/100 and its slow to upload to it, but steams HD, Xvid, and music just fine. In fact I found that I can have music, 3 xvid movies, and one HD program going off one unit all at the same time before it starts to choke. But again the only downside is transferring large files to it, but once there its smooth sailing, and if your single it will be perfect, I have me, a wife, and 2 kids that we all hop on one unit all together at the same time with no problems.

I wish mine would stream to my xbox, but for what I paid, right around the price of these, it seems mine is a little less pita to set up having its own driver. Install it, attach the drives, done. At some point though I'd like to get my hands on the Sata one of these ones for when my IDE drives start to fart out.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Has anyone managed to build a serial console cable for it yet? I'm confused by the fact that there is three different circuit diagrams on the OpenNAS forum thread.

I would like to un-brick my IDE unit, so I was wondering if there was someone here that could build one of those cables and wants to hack my "dead" unit. Could be a fun exercise, especially if one wants to try the OpenNAS firmware.

Edit: Ignore this, a link I found for someone's custom firmware for a previous model of Landisk.link

Found a guide for unbricking older Landisk products here

More older Landisk firmwares here

 

[Schmide]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Has anyone managed to build a serial console cable for it yet? I'm confused by the fact that there is three different circuit diagrams on the OpenNAS forum thread.

I would like to un-brick my IDE unit, so I was wondering if there was someone here that could build one of those cables and wants to hack my "dead" unit. Could be a fun exercise, especially if one wants to try the OpenNAS firmware.

Edit: Ignore this, a link I found for someone's custom firmware for a previous model of Landisk.link

Found a guide for unbricking older Landisk products here

More older Landisk firmwares here

I don't think they are the same chip.

The A-tec mobile landisk is a Freescale MPC8241LVR266D 266 MHz RISC and the links you gave are for a RDC Semiconductor R2881 (170mhz?). Both RISC but different architectures. I think

 

[flashbacck]

Originally posted by: funboy6942
I beg to differ. I got what everyone here called was a pos, the netgear Sc101, which is a 10/100 and its slow to upload to it, but steams HD, Xvid, and music just fine. ...

You're right, Shinson is mistaken. 10/100 is fine for A/V streaming. Bitrate of OTA HD signals are around 18 Mbps and Bluray is at most 48 Mbps.

 

[maximusfarticus]

Not sure if anyone cares-

My wife's laptop's screen finally gave out. We got her a new one last night. I seized her old laptop and turned it into a low powered media server. I attached it to another monitor and set up media center to run with my 360. I set up remote desktop so I can set it to download torrents, move around files, etc. I attached my 650 GB external to it and installed TVersity for ultimate compatibility with everything.

 

[nobodyknows]

Originally posted by: maximusfarticus
Not sure if anyone cares-

My wife's laptop's screen finally gave out. We got her a new one last night. I seized her old laptop and turned it into a low powered media server. I attached it to another monitor and set up media center to run with my 360. I set up remote desktop so I can set it to download torrents, move around files, etc. I attached my 650 GB external to it and installed TVersity for ultimate compatibility with everything.

Good idea. I just bought a mint condition Gateway tablet pc to replace the old Dell LS400 that I use as a GPS unit with a usb gps device. The tablet pc has twice the processor and twice the memory.

I was wondering what to do with the old Dell laptop. It would be perfect for torrents since my NAS won't do torrents. The laptop only has a 40 gig hard drive but hopefully I can just send the files over to the NAS

Thanks for the idea.

 

[maximusfarticus]

No problem. It can also serve as a printer server and you can plug in any external HDD's you want to expand.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: nobodyknows

Originally posted by: maximusfarticus
Not sure if anyone cares-

My wife's laptop's screen finally gave out. We got her a new one last night. I seized her old laptop and turned it into a low powered media server. I attached it to another monitor and set up media center to run with my 360. I set up remote desktop so I can set it to download torrents, move around files, etc. I attached my 650 GB external to it and installed TVersity for ultimate compatibility with everything.

Good idea. I just bought a mint condition Gateway tablet pc to replace the old Dell LS400 that I use as a GPS unit with a usb gps device. The tablet pc has twice the processor and twice the memory.

I was wondering what to do with the old Dell laptop. It would be perfect for torrents since my NAS won't do torrents. The laptop only has a 40 gig hard drive but hopefully I can just send the files over to the NAS

Thanks for the idea.

Old laptops are great. I've used them as print servers, storage servers, Exchange servers, IIS servers, Apache servers, OWA servers, game servers...

 

[maximusfarticus]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: nobodyknows

Originally posted by: maximusfarticus
Not sure if anyone cares-

My wife's laptop's screen finally gave out. We got her a new one last night. I seized her old laptop and turned it into a low powered media server. I attached it to another monitor and set up media center to run with my 360. I set up remote desktop so I can set it to download torrents, move around files, etc. I attached my 650 GB external to it and installed TVersity for ultimate compatibility with everything.

Good idea. I just bought a mint condition Gateway tablet pc to replace the old Dell LS400 that I use as a GPS unit with a usb gps device. The tablet pc has twice the processor and twice the memory.

I was wondering what to do with the old Dell laptop. It would be perfect for torrents since my NAS won't do torrents. The laptop only has a 40 gig hard drive but hopefully I can just send the files over to the NAS

Thanks for the idea.

Old laptops are great. I've used them as print servers, storage servers, Exchange servers, IIS servers, Apache servers, OWA servers, game servers...

Have you experience any heat issues? I don't expect any but i will monitor it.