How useful is a NAS? Page 4

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  • elstoof 18 Aug 2015 18:33:08 28,125 posts
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    Where is he, to tell us the benefits of a striped RAID configuration NAS with overly long sentences of mumbo jumbo.
  • Dirtbox 18 Aug 2015 18:40:15 92,595 posts
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  • Khanivor 18 Aug 2015 18:40:49 44,800 posts
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    elstoof wrote:
    Where is he, to tell us the benefits of a striped RAID configuration NAS with overly long sentences of mumbo jumbo.
    The implications of permutable technology have been far-reaching and pervasive. Despite the fact that this is generally a natural goal, it is buffetted by related work in the field. We view cyberinformatics as following a cycle of four phases: management, creation, analysis, and prevention. Unfortunately, permutable technology might not be the panacea that leading analysts expected. To what extent can scatter/gather I/O be harnessed to achieve this mission?

    In our research we introduce a probabilistic tool for refining spreadsheets (MohrLene), which we use to show that object-oriented languages and Moore's Law can connect to answer this quandary. Continuing with this rationale, our system controls agents. Existing amphibious and scalable applications use scatter/gather I/O to visualize the UNIVAC computer. Thus, we disconfirm not only that spreadsheets and I/O automata can interact to surmount this quagmire, but that the same is true for I/O automata.

    Our contributions are threefold. We argue that though the well-known virtual algorithm for the evaluation of wide-area networks by Wang and Kobayashi runs in Ω(n!) time, write-back caches and suffix trees are continuously incompatible. Next, we explore an analysis of wide-area networks (MohrLene), which we use to verify that the foremost knowledge-based algorithm for the synthesis of flip-flop gates by Raman et al. [16] is in Co-NP. We describe a novel approach for the deployment of forward-error correction (MohrLene), showing that the little-known classical algorithm for the visualization of Internet QoS is optimal.

    We proceed as follows. We motivate the need for access points. Further, we place our work in context with the related work in this area. We place our work in context with the previous work in this area. Finally, we conclude.
  • mal 18 Aug 2015 18:51:57 29,326 posts
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    /throws roses

    Bravo, sir!
  • Khanivor 18 Aug 2015 19:29:04 44,800 posts
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    Is it possible to justify the great pains we took in our implementation? It is not. With these considerations in mind, we ran four novel experiments: (1) we compared expected hit ratio on the Microsoft Windows for Workgroups, KeyKOS and Microsoft Windows for Workgroups operating systems; (2) we measured instant messenger and DNS latency on our wearable cluster; (3) we ran 17 trials with a simulated E-mail workload, and compared results to our bioware simulation; and (4) we dogfooded our application on our own desktop machines, paying particular attention to optical drive throughput. All of these experiments completed without noticable performance bottlenecks or LAN congestion.

    We first explain experiments (1) and (3) enumerated above as shown in Figure 6 [12]. The data in Figure 6, in particular, proves that four years of hard work were wasted on this project. Note the heavy tail on the CDF in Figure 6, exhibiting duplicated clock speed. Third, note that Figure 3 shows the average and not average replicated effective NV-RAM speed.

    Shown in Figure 5, experiments (3) and (4) enumerated above call attention to our system's average complexity. Note the heavy tail on the CDF in Figure 4, exhibiting weakened bandwidth. Furthermore, operator error alone cannot account for these results. Similarly, Gaussian electromagnetic disturbances in our desktop machines caused unstable experimental results.

    Lastly, we discuss experiments (1) and (4) enumerated above. This is crucial to the success of our work. Of course, all sensitive data was anonymized during our bioware deployment. On a similar note, the key to Figure 3 is closing the feedback loop; Figure 4 shows how our algorithm's tape drive space does not converge otherwise. Further, note that Figure 3 shows the effective and not mean wireless effective hard disk speed [6].
  • Khanivor 18 Aug 2015 19:29:56 44,800 posts
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    I can't claim credit.

    It's frankly rather disturbing that it generates results so close to the ones outputted by user vizinni.
  • Dirtbox 18 Aug 2015 19:38:48 92,595 posts
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  • HarryB 18 Aug 2015 21:06:01 7,630 posts
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    Bare metal, no virtuals. Its ran solidly for about 3 years now. HP N40L .. Was a bonkers cash back deal ages back that meant it really cost you £80. Its capable of running much more but I fix computers and servers at work, not home!
  • Deleted user 18 August 2015 21:15:29
    The HP cashback deals are a regular thing... I got a Gen 8 microserver for just over £100 after cashback back in June. Absolutely ridiculous value!

    The Gen 8 is a bit smaller and has ILO, which is a godsend if you're running it headless...
    Got a Gen 7 for a similar price a couple of years ago and still love that also
  • HarryB 18 Aug 2015 22:02:57 7,630 posts
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    I'll upgrade eventually but its probably the only bit of technology I've had in the last 5 years that I haven't had any issues with. It sits in my TV cabinet and is extremely quiet and anonymous.
  • Armoured_Bear 28 Jun 2018 21:27:27 31,233 posts
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    I'm trying to choose between 2 NASes, Synology DS918+ and QNAP TS-453B.
    I'll be using it as a Music Server and Video Server as well as backups.

    It's tricky to choose between them, I'm leaning towards the Synology as it seems to be quieter and easy to use.

    Anyone have any experience with them?
  • uiruki 28 Jun 2018 22:52:51 5,975 posts
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    I have the TS-253A. It's fine, I mostly use it as a network share and it does that job well enough. Aside from upgrading the drives in it (basically make sure you know what you're doing as trying to be a smartarse and swapping a drive while it's off will make it throw a huge wobbler) and some slight weirdness when updating firmware (basically you have to manually restart it as it doesn't shut down properly with more than a couple of days of uptime) it's given me zero bother.

    You're right in that it's a bit noisy as there's a constant fan and the drives aren't particularly well noise shielded, but since it's just a little box stashed away in a different room it doesn't really matter as long as the cable's long enough to reach the router. I thought I'd have used the more advanced features in it but in reality I just put two big drives in it and set it away. The transcoding works well enough up to 1080 and the web server feature was a neat trick but in the end I just use it for storage. Bit overkill really.

    I have a Synology router and it gives me nice quick ping times and the web interface some good quality traffic logging/client monitoring features so no issues with that.

    Your best bet will probably be to see what, if any, other apps you want to run on the system and see how well they're supported. I know the QNAP one runs Docker containers and you can also have it load up full Ubuntu if you want.
  • Deleted user 28 June 2018 23:17:47
    One of the greatest of all time. His rhymes can be deep, helped me through some tough times.
  • Armoured_Bear 29 Jun 2018 00:14:15 31,233 posts
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    uiruki wrote:
    I have the TS-253A. It's fine, I mostly use it as a network share and it does that job well enough. Aside from upgrading the drives in it (basically make sure you know what you're doing as trying to be a smartarse and swapping a drive while it's off will make it throw a huge wobbler) and some slight weirdness when updating firmware (basically you have to manually restart it as it doesn't shut down properly with more than a couple of days of uptime) it's given me zero bother.

    You're right in that it's a bit noisy as there's a constant fan and the drives aren't particularly well noise shielded, but since it's just a little box stashed away in a different room it doesn't really matter as long as the cable's long enough to reach the router. I thought I'd have used the more advanced features in it but in reality I just put two big drives in it and set it away. The transcoding works well enough up to 1080 and the web server feature was a neat trick but in the end I just use it for storage. Bit overkill really.

    I have a Synology router and it gives me nice quick ping times and the web interface some good quality traffic logging/client monitoring features so no issues with that.

    Your best bet will probably be to see what, if any, other apps you want to run on the system and see how well they're supported. I know the QNAP one runs Docker containers and you can also have it load up full Ubuntu if you want.
    Thanks for the info mate.
  • Armoured_Bear 8 Jul 2018 23:15:37 31,233 posts
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    @uiruki
    I got the Synology 918+ in the end.
    Seems like a nice bit of kit so far.
    I stuck a couple of WD Reds in it, still lots of setup to do though.
  • ModoX 8 Jul 2018 23:30:17 3,480 posts
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    @pacrifice I have NFI what a NAS is, only came in this thread to make this joke :D

    I mean, really it depends what NAS we're talking - Illmatic, Untitled, Oochie Wallie-period? All depends.
  • Armoured_Bear 8 Jul 2018 23:38:51 31,233 posts
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    ModoX wrote:
    @pacrifice I have NFI what a NAS is, only came in this thread to make this joke :D

    I mean, really it depends what NAS we're talking - Illmatic, Untitled, Oochie Wallie-period? All depends.
    Illmatic or gtfo
  • Deleted user 9 July 2018 00:05:42
    Illmatic for sure but c'mon. It was written is such a classic album. It's '96 and it's all Nas gangsta-fied. A couple of songs on Nastradamus and I Am but then there's that unreleased album Death of Escobar. Lost Tapes good too. This is all '94 to 2000-ish era

    Stillmatic had only weak track with whatshername but it was removed when reprinted but albums like God's Son, Streets Desciple, not all that. Everything else after is meh.
  • Deleted user 9 July 2018 00:09:30
    Did you boys ever listen to this https://youtu.be/ma2z57UF1cQ

    The Message is the first real track on It Was Written. On the retail, Nas sampled Sting's shape of my heart but it was altered, more strings, guitar. On this unreleased version, starts with scarface intro and boom, the proper beat to Sting's song. Waaaaaaaay better.
  • Deleted user 9 July 2018 00:10:52
    And oh yeah, this is the track 2pac heard in prison and decided to go to war with Nas. Why? The answer is in the second verse.
  • warlockuk 9 Jul 2018 19:18:02 19,519 posts
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    pacrifice wrote:
    And oh yeah, this is the track 2pac heard in prison and decided to go to war with Nas. Why? The answer is in the second verse.
    It's pretty good, especially the software that lets you automatically back the fuck up.
  • specialgamer 9 Jul 2018 21:49:06 690 posts
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    Armoured_Bear wrote:
    @uiruki
    I got the Synology 918+ in the end.
    Seems like a nice bit of kit so far.
    I stuck a couple of WD Reds in it, still lots of setup to do though.
    Awesome choice! That's a very capable NAS! Did you know you can run virtual machines on it and nerdy stuff like .NET web apps and databases and whatnot via Docker? Amazing machine and the Synology DSM web-browser UI is just so bloody well done. Best browser-based UI I've used bar none!
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