-GoBengals- Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Finally got the tax return cash, paid of a large amount of debt, and saved the last $409 to get a nice NAS storage setup... wife and I both needed it.. So i bought the Synology 213j, and 2x seagate 3TB hard drives. I went cheap and didnt get the WD red, they were $20 more each. and the seagate were rated for NAS and media server usage, so it is what it is... So we will have 3TB of storage, and raid setup so our files are safe. i am eager to check out the diskstation software and itunes media server and everything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 I'll be upgrading\expanding to a DS214 with Hitachi drives after I find out how much we owe the IRS. :glare: The 213j is a fantastic unit as well, I just want USB 3.0... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted February 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 I'll be upgrading\expanding to a DS214 with Hitachi drives after I find out how much we owe the IRS. :glare: The 213j is a fantastic unit as well, I just want USB 3.0... nice! i dont know what would hook up via USB, except my random 2TB HD...which is 3 years old, and doesnt have anything important on it..... probably store bengals game files on it or something i dont care a ton of i lose... i hope to expand this one, either with another one or with the expansion pack, so them my wife and I have seperate backups... with some home surveillance tied in.... kids will soon be staying home alone for a few hours after school... gotta keep an eye on those monsters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted February 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 thats 214PLay seems pretty badass.. if i had an extra $170 i would have gone that route... as i will use this a LOT for streaming media stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 thats 214PLay seems pretty badass.. if i had an extra $170 i would have gone that route... as i will use this a LOT for streaming media stuff... That was the impetus for us, TBH as we rarely watch anything live on the television, preferring to stream when it's convenient for us. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Playon.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted February 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 That was the impetus for us, TBH as we rarely watch anything live on the television, preferring to stream when it's convenient for us. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Playon.... local sports, and a guide of what to download/stream is about all directv does for us as well.. i would LOVE to scrap that $100/mo bill.... i dont even think i would spend that much if i BOUGHT all of the shows i wanted from apple tv... however... i have a never ending contract with directv... they give my sunday ticket FREE each year, and i give them 24 more months of my soul... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Yeah, we don't have any true "local" sports here, mainly California teams, and for some ungodly reason lots of the Yankees and Red Sox. :suicide: We have basic cable (13 channels, 7 of which are in English), and I would totally cut that out, but we do watch the local news and PBS. We also get WGN. I swear we could move to the fucking moon and still get WGN. I think that's part of the reason why I hate the Cubs so much. I would cut cable entirely and go over-the-air with an antenna but we have the not so insignificant matter of the giant fucking mountain that lies directly in the way of every single digital OTA antenna in the city. :glare: Seriously; if you look at the digital OTA maps and where we live, that mountain is like Oprah standing in front of a buffet. There's no getting around it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Damn, just how much porn do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Damn, just how much porn do you have? There's a surprising amount of tasteful goat and bonobo porn out there. I'll leave you guessing as to whether or not I'm joking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted February 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Damn, just how much porn do you have? soooooooooooo much.... in my case, in all seriousness, my wife does photography, so she keeps the raw original files of her shoots, so like 200-600MB per shoot, after 2-3 years she will delete the raw and keep just the jpg's, .. and i have about 200 GB of movies and tv shows... and then we have our time machine backups of both(soon to be all 3 of our computers... my 3TB will be virtually full soon after i get it... but the backups bump the oldest and keep the newest at each backup, so thats ok.. i am a big time digital hoarder... i hate keeping shit in my house, but deleting files and stuff is a problem i have.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullichicken25 Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Enjoy it man, I can't imagine living without it now Are you using the 2 drives as a RAID backup array or are you combining them for 6tb total? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted February 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Enjoy it man, I can't imagine living without it now Are you using the 2 drives as a RAID backup array or are you combining them for 6tb total? sadly as raid, i would be geeked to have 6TB, but with the importance of my wifes photography stuff, raid is necessary... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 RAID 0 + Backblaze Just sayin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted February 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 RAID 0 + Backblaze Just sayin... will backblaze backup the synology? it wont be directly connected to any machine.. just straight into the switch in the basement... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 will backblaze backup the synology? it wont be directly connected to any machine.. just straight into the switch in the basement... It will if you mount it as a drive in OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 I take that back; looks like they changed their policy since I first read it. If you attached it via USB, *then* BB would back it up, but it won't if it's just a NAS connection... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 So, the solution is a cheap 3 TB external USB drive, and an RSYNC job that copies files to the NAS. You have your NAS, and the files on the attached drive still get backed up to BB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted February 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 for now im going to roll with the synology hybrid raid, as i plan to either get another to add drives with the extension later... came today, just assembled, installing software now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted February 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 this thing is so amazing... i think though, i am a mac mini away form my utopia of multimedia awesomeness.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 this thing is so amazing... i think though, i am a mac mini away form my utopia of multimedia awesomeness.... To stream? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted February 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 To stream? well, it has Plex, DLNA, iTunes media servers built in, o i can stream to my TV, xbox, blu ray directly, there is some wishy wash info on streaming DIRECTLY to the apple tv, it can do audio for sure, but video maybe not, so in THAT instance, a mini would be the "always on" surrogate between the two, but i feel if not currently, direct airplay video streaming is on the horizon.. the mini would be nice to do the downloading of my movies, shows, etc, capturing bengals games, converting, etc.. and then dump via cat5e vs my macbook doing it over wifi.. and the diskstation aps for ios are great, i THINK i can streaming on ipad and then airplay it to the apple tv... but i havent tried yet... essentially the ipad would be a huge media remote/guide.. there is a FUCKTON of setting up that still needs done... but i am in love with this device... fast as hell too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullichicken25 Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 this thing is so amazing... i think though, i am a mac mini away form my utopia of multimedia awesomeness.... I can confirm this However...there are significantly more, and less expensive, ways to accomplish this than there were 2 years ago when i assembled my set up. The drawback to the alternatives, and the strength of the mac mini, is that these streaming servers (plex, itunes, etc) work best when running on an actual computer. So even if you were to go with, say, a Chromecast setup, you'd likely still need to be runing plex or itunes on a computer somewhere in your network. My set up: All media stored on Synology Nas, Plex server running on mac mini (set up as HTPC on living room TV), TV/Movies streaming to network devices around the house via Plex, music streaming via DS audio on smartphone or tablet and played through a bluetooth speaker. All wireless. The only wired connection in my house is from the router to Synology Nas. Also, once you're up and running I highly, HIGHLY, recomend a harmony universal remote. The real beauty of my system (in the living room at least) is that there's no clumsiness. My wife (not a nerd like me) merely has to grab the only remote in the living room, push one button, and can access all the NAS content through the amaznigly clean/intuituve plex interface. Conversly, in my bedroom, accessing/changing between content requires fumbling with the TV remote, Cable remote, DVD remote, Roku remote, and HDMI switch remote (old TV only has two HDMI inputs and the "automatic" switcher doesn't work automaticly like its supposed to) Whatever you end up doing, enjoy exploring all the things the DiskStation is capable of. I keep discovering new features all the time and I get the feeling I've only scratched the surface of what it can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted February 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 I have everything hardwired, minus the laptops/phones/ipads, everything is run through my switch with cat5e, so speeds should be premium. The mini would be on my desk in the basement office, also hard wired. So its ideal to stream through IF needed... it looks like they are starting to push airplay services, so since all of my movies are appletv formatted already, an iphone, ipad, etc could be the surrogate/media remote. i will stumble through this when i get back from phoenix, i feel like i need to take a few days off just to play with the Synology.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullichicken25 Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 I have everything hardwired, minus the laptops/phones/ipads, everything is run through my switch with cat5e, so speeds should be premium. The mini would be on my desk in the basement office, also hard wired. So its ideal to stream through IF needed... it looks like they are starting to push airplay services, so since all of my movies are appletv formatted already, an iphone, ipad, etc could be the surrogate/media remote. i will stumble through this when i get back from phoenix, i feel like i need to take a few days off just to play with the Synology.... Your all wired set up must be stupid fast And with all that airplay capability it sounds like you wouldn't need the mini at all, unless you want it. Enjoy Phoenix, I'll be out there next week or the week after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted February 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 Your all wired set up must be stupid fast And with all that airplay capability it sounds like you wouldn't need the mini at all, unless you want it. Enjoy Phoenix, I'll be out there next week or the week after the airplay video is about the only potential missing link, it currently does audio, but havent seen it do video yet.. may be a DS 5.0 feature though.. which is in beta.. cant wait to leave this pretty nice weather and get to really nice weather... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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