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    NAS (any brand) external USB drive bay - issues

    More... Currently I'm running first-ever backup via the USB3 port to the 2-bay drive. Don't know how to get Linux to tell me if that port is running at USB3 speeds though. I did fdisk for both /dev/sds1 and /dev/sds, below DS212> fdisk -l /dev/sds1 fdisk: device has more than 2^32 sectors...
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    NAS (any brand) external USB drive bay - issues

    continued... This time, the USB3 port worked and the JBOD box mounted and showed up in the list of external devices. Correct volume size. I did an Eject, waited. Unplugged USB cable. Drives spin-down. Plugged in USB3 cable. Drives spin-up, one after another. Long wait, then the USB3 mount was...
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    NAS (any brand) external USB drive bay - issues

    Use of USB3 hubs on the DS212 - A one-drive USB3 enclosure does not work with any of several USB3 hubs, on the DS212. Most but not all USB3 hubs work OK with Windows 7 (I read that Win 10 has new/better USB drivers). If the 2-drive enclosure, in JBOD mode, is plugged into USB2 of the DS212, it...
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    NAS (any brand) external USB drive bay - issues

    Not using a hub. USB3 2-bay enclosure, 2 drives, configured as JBOD. Works find on Synology's USB2 port. Shows up as 4TB (3.8TB actually). I formatted as ext4 and used Synology's backup to copy 1.8TB. No issues. On USB2. Plug into USB3 port, nothing is displayed in the GUI. Synology tech...
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    NAS advice

    My related story: On a professional project I lead, I chose a local data center provider. Substantial. Paid for a VM service for a long time. One day, it was gone. After 3 days, the service provider says: your VM was on a system with RAID5 and that array died. Try as we might, we could not...
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    Synology NAS not showing in Windows 10 Network File Explorer Browser

    Are those PoE claiming to meet IEEE standards for PoE? There are lots of marketing liberties taken with the term "PoE".
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    WiFi RF Transmit Power

    baked-in power limits... rooted in cost to produce power versus modulation order. 802.11b is always highest power by far, for the same hardware has to "back-off" power by 3-6dB in the fancier OFDM modes. To preserve waveform quality (rho), else the transmitted signal is distorted and net...
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    NAS advice

    Focus is on disk farms. I think that in SOHO/SMB NASes, theft, human error, file system corruption, are the key risks - moreso than drive failure. This, after the initial new-drive failure time is past.
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    DS212 Intermittent LAN

    Let's focus on the LED on the RJ45 socket on the NAS, and the LED on the switch or router port on the other end of the known-good ethernet cable. You said that the RJ45 LED on the NAS, when things aren't working, is ON. Is it blinking? Blinking means there is LAN activity. And when not working...
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    Ext. drive to Nas backup

    Oh, I get it. You have a few options... Simplest, if the drive is formatted for windows (NTFS or FAT), just plug it in. Wait a minute. Then choose some or all files/folders to copy to a (newly created?) folder on the NAS. Same, if drive is Linux/ext4 formatted. Essentially, same as plugging USB...
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    WiFi RF Transmit Power

    Yes, I preach that "unbalanced link" idea often in these forum. People think of WiFi as a one-way broadcast. I wish more APs/Routers would conveniently display the from-client signal strength and modulation rate. Sad to see so many waste money trying to improve coverage with fancy routers...
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    MS reducing Windows phone effort, streamlines business

    Many people think that MS is invasive enough and draw the line with phones and tablets.
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    DS212 Intermittent LAN

    Tell us more about the RJ45 problem. And if the LEDs on the NAS are rather normal after power-up. Maybe we can simply get that going - bad cable, bent pin, bad switch port, etc.
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    SMB Business Continuity vendor Datto released DattoDrive, based on OwnCloud

    tell that to Amazon or eBay. And their investors. Maybe poster meant "any cloud service on the internet". In which case: Tell that to Amazon Web Services (AWS) whose revenue and profit exceeds that of retail hard goods sales.
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    NAS advice

    I'd backup a bit more frequently, unless you have something else at work, as I do. The forums are replete with users' horror stories about RAID, for reasons other than drive failure, failing to rebuild and user had no backups. And there's theft or human admin error.
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    Ext. drive to Nas backup

    Imaging.... meaning a sector by sector copy to USB3 or eSATA... no. I don't think QNAP does that either. You can use rsync or, as I do, the Synology Backup and Replicate utility to copy some or all files to a USB2 or USB3 drive. I backup from NAS volume 1 to volume 2 every day. And to external...
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    FCC rules impact on wifi routers

    Says the WiFi client to the router: "I can hear you but you can't hear me well or at all." Million watt router won't help. There are TWO coverage fried-egg plots: Inbound and outbound. Per router-client pairing.
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    SMB Business Continuity vendor Datto released DattoDrive, based on OwnCloud

    Dropbox, OpenDrive and others have had big issues rooted in employees and contractors with too liberal access to customer data and re-encryption keys held for court order responses (US only?). In one case, disgruntled insider sabotaged the database. Took weeks to recover. Too often, the big...
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    NAS advice

    preaching: 3-2-1 backup. NAS or not.
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    DS212 Intermittent LAN

    This type of failure is why I don't use RAID on my 2 bay. I use 2 volumes. LAN interface quits. NAS power supply or mainboard fails. But the larger question is: There is no backup on USB3 or some such? With RAID, it's not if, but when you get in trouble due to a corrupt file system (you have...
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