In preparation for my new website supporting my activities on YouTube, I'm setting up a new Qnap web and file server. Unlike my old single disk drive server, this one has dual drives in a RAID1 configuration.
By Julian
Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado
Nasweb_15
should build your own, would be an interesting video!
MEGABIT – NETWORK SPEEDS ARE MEASURED IN BITS, NOT BYTES.
If you want to know what your maximum download will be in bytes instead of bits (rough and ready but reasonably accurate) then divide the MEGABIT speed by ten.
About that HDD light. Have you got cloud software installed on the single disk NAS?
De and reinstall that software.
Possible to configure TS-231 to work with home surveillance camera? Can you show a demo? Thanks.
Julian, I'll host you're site for free. You can have Web & Email (WordPress) backed up daily to the cloud. I like your videos. See it as a thank you.
I wouldn't use RAID 1… you should go for RAID6 or RAID 10 because you get a parity disk and more redundancy. You can probably build a web server using Debian server and the same NAS drives… you'll need at least 3-4 to be able to set up RAID6 or RAID10, but trust me… it's a LOT more secure than RAID0 or RAID1 where if a drive dies, 50% of every file is lost, or if the other drive fails during rebuild, then a corruption occurs… not fun to recover!!… I've been there!
Looking forward to the next part of this 🙂
I'm very much looking forward to the follow-up video for this, as this looks exactly like the solution I've been looking for, but with 3TB drives. Can you show how you get a domain name running from it?
Freenas or Nas4free is perhaps a better option.
I would go Synology NAS, software is very nice and easy to use, it's a step up from all the cheap NAS software solutions.
Running something like WordPress on your NAS would work against your plans for data integrity IMO. WordPress has had a lot of remote exploits where people can break in and do what they want to the machine. Wouldn't be surprised if that's what's wrong with your single disk NAS.
Just get a regular PC and install Ubuntu Lamp Server on it. Problem solved.
Redundant disk are good, but not great. I think you're better off with a single disk and remote backup your data to a different location. People are all about redundant setups for data integrity but they fail to account for breakin and theft, total system failure and fire/earthquake etc.
If your hosting needs are simple keep your system simple.
My guess: the new firmware is a behemoth and uses / leaks a heck of a lot of RAM. That'll leave the system without RAM and it'll start swapping it to the hard drive, thus the flashing HDD LED.
Not enough memory / memory leaks = the system stops responding.
Yeah finally someone is thinking of antistatic precautions.