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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2014, 09:46:05 am »
I'm new to setting up network attached storage but have a question about this. If I set this server up to turn existing external hard drives into NAS, can I access those drives / files from anything besides my windows computer? I am looking at Android and IOS as I utilize both. If I do this will everyone on my network have access to these files or will the password be required for anyone trying to login?  I am also wondering if there is a way I could set this up to be a personal "cloud" by providing remote access while not on my home network. I have experience port forwarding and have a DDNS service running so I can access other services in my residence already. Thanks!

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2014, 11:18:37 am »
Longer term, yes, although as of right now, it's quite feature complete and we're working on improving things. I'd say you should give it a couple of firmware releases before this is up to the kind of levels you're asking for.
Right now for example we only support a single user account, with a single password, no real mobile device support or WAN side support.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2014, 11:38:32 am »
I'm new to setting up network attached storage but have a question about this. If I set this server up to turn existing external hard drives into NAS, can I access those drives / files from anything besides my windows computer? I am looking at Android and IOS as I utilize both. If I do this will everyone on my network have access to these files or will the password be required for anyone trying to login?  I am also wondering if there is a way I could set this up to be a personal "cloud" by providing remote access while not on my home network. I have experience port forwarding and have a DDNS service running so I can access other services in my residence already. Thanks!

You can set this up on a Raspberry Pi using Seafile (or probably any of the alternatives, I just saw that this one has an RPi package), or I guess owncloud is a lot more popular. You could probably get them to run on the Almond+, but I think you would want to do some file system mangling so they don't install on the tiny Almond flash. And I feel like they would probably bog down router though, but it might be worth a try.

http://seafile.com/en/home/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Owncloud-dropbox-clone/
« Last Edit: September 23, 2014, 11:45:01 am by vicvega09 »

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #18 on: September 24, 2014, 04:10:22 pm »
Hi,

I can see the drive on the mac - but it is listed as locked. When I try the chown command above on the almond+ I get
chown: test: Function not implemented

Or are we still waiting for MAC support?


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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2014, 11:43:09 pm »
It's a Samba related issue that we haven't had a chance to fix yet.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #20 on: September 25, 2014, 09:57:41 am »
What throughput is everyone seeing with a HDD connected using the USB 3.0 interface? Any rotational speed, accessed via either Ethernet or Wifi. I'm trying to get some ballpark numbers.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #21 on: September 25, 2014, 10:09:45 am »
It's not that great right now, we still have a good bit of work to do with regards to storage performance. Using FTP with an older firmware I hit 100MB/s, but now we're doing around 75MB/s read. Write speeds are currently capped at around 35MB/s. SAMBA is of course a bit slower, but we believe we should be able to deliver pretty good performance one we update a few things and optimize the whole platform.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #22 on: September 25, 2014, 10:17:39 am »
Lars,

Perfect. Thanks. I was thinking of creating a SMB share to store my media for my Plex Server (which is running on storage limited hardware).

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #23 on: September 25, 2014, 10:42:10 am »
Even now you should get 30-35MB/s over SAMBA, not great, but not terrible either.
Not sure how it'll interact with Plex though and I have in honesty never used it.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #24 on: September 25, 2014, 10:47:00 am »
No issue. I'm willing to try it out. 30MB/s should be fine. I think the increased network load might be the primary concern (PMS is connected to one of these with line of sight to the Almond+). Thanks for your quick responses!

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #25 on: September 25, 2014, 11:08:44 am »
Shouldn't be an issue for streaming media.
I'll freely admit that this is our weakest part now that needs some serious work, but the platform has the potential for really good storage performance.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #26 on: September 25, 2014, 11:34:00 am »
Thank you and best of luck Lars!

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #27 on: February 25, 2015, 10:47:18 am »
.....  I am also wondering if there is a way I could set this up to be a personal "cloud" by providing remote access while not on my home network. I have experience port forwarding and have a DDNS service running so I can access other services in my residence already. Thanks!

Is there or will there be a way to access the hard drive attached to my Almond+ from outside my local area network? Thanks.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #28 on: March 04, 2015, 07:14:17 am »
This continues to go unanswered. Can it be done? Thanks.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #29 on: March 05, 2015, 09:42:09 am »
One popular method  using OpenWRT was to install ownCloud running a simple script.

That said looks like ownCloud has gone commercial and running it on OpenWRT was extremely slow.

https://owncloud.org/

I have a modded micro-router with OpenWRT around and will give it a try on that box.

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cd /tmp
wget http://mirrors.owncloud.org/release/ownclound-X.X.X.tar.bz2
opkg update
opkg install tar
cd /www
tar -xjf /tmp/owncloud-X.X.X.tar.bz2
« Last Edit: March 05, 2015, 08:18:46 pm by pete »
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