ZyXEL NSA310 1-Bay NAS Media Server (With 500GB HDD) - €90.37 delivered [Dabs.ie]

neacy69 wrote: »

is £44.99 a decent price for one of these? No disk included

Brilliant price in my opinion. Well worth the money.

Chet T16 wrote: »

Surely the 320 for £5 more is better?

Excellent price too. They are a great nas all round.

vectra wrote: »

Well.
I know this is an NSA 310 thread but I bought myself an NSA 325 today.
Without making me read through the 44 pages
Any hints and tips of what to install or setups?
Thnaks

Get reading!!

You'll want to install FFP for starters.
You can then ssh into the box and do loads more from there.

They changed the admin addy again with this firmware update, seems par for the course with each update now, just means you have to update your bookmarks to login as admin, the below addy is what I've found works on this update, might be of use to someone

x.x.x.x/r41226,/adv,/admin/

Is anyone having issues with ShowRss lately?

bromley52 wrote: »

When generating your personal RSS feed you need to disable magnet links.

Thanks, I know this.
I have my Showrss feed set up correctly(I hope, its been working issue free for months now)
But since last week I have not successfully downloaded anything.
I suppose what I'm really wondering is, is there any issue with the torrent mirrors?
Or has anyone encountered similar over the last week or so?
All my shows are failing at the ''announce''

Tinie wrote: »

Which one of these would be my best option guys for purely using it for Plex? Can buy my own hard drive if possible as id want a few TBs. Completely new to NAS setups.

I don't know if this answers your question but see post 635.

Hi Guys.
I installed Polkast the other day on my nsa325.
Since them my transfer speeds have dropped from 10m to 4m.
Also my cpu is running at 100% constantly.
It is showing Polkast as using around 88% of this.
Can I uninstall polkast as I dont really need it.
Thanks

iPhone. wrote: »

Just browse to the admin page for your NSA325 and click on the Fimware/Packages link in the menu to the left of the page.

You can then highlight the Polkast package by clicking on it and then selecting either disable or Uninstall on the top menu.

Excellent
Just what I needed.
Polkast had it at 100% cpu with days and I could not use it.

Thanks again

Has anybody had any joy in hooking up the 325 to Dropbox?

Anybody know of any offers going for a decent NAS?

Thinking of pulling the trigger on this but not 100% sure.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/NSA310-Network-Storage-Appliance-Diskless/dp/B00I415JC6/ref=sr_1_2?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1398307056&sr=1-2&keywords=ZyXEL+NSA310#productDetails

stooge wrote: »

Was tmepted until I read the reviews and this:

" Usually dispatched within 1 to 4 months."

whats that all about?????

I ordered one at the time and had it in 3 weeks.

Sneachta wrote: »

Been following this thread. Love the sound of NAS but are they complicated to set up etc?

I know little or nothing about networking and I have mine running so should be easy.

bromley52 wrote: »

Does anyone know how to install the Plex Unsupported App Store onto the NSA310?

Presuming you have plex installed. On my NSA310 what I find easiest is to log in using Filezilla to ssh in.

The path should be x.x.x.x/mnt/HD_a2/programs/plex/lib/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-ins/

replacing the x's with your local ip for your NAS. Then just copy whatever plugin you want into the folder.

is it time to move this out of BA? I keep coming in to check new posts to see if it is going cheap somewhere!

bromley52 wrote: »

Good deal on NSA310

Cheers. Is it worth paying the few extra quid for the NSA320S ?

walshy123 wrote: »

Cheers. Is it worth paying the few extra quid for the NSA320S ?

Slightly Faster Processor, so if the price difference is slight then yes.

zom wrote: »

I tried to google it but seems like tons of info to get through, so please excuse me lazinesses but I have one simple short question - USB sockets on this NAS are to connect disk to NAS or connect NAS to PC? Can I connect external 3TB USB drive to empty ZyXEL and use it instead of internal NAS disk?

The USB slot allows you to connect a drive and copy directly from USB to NAS and vice versa

I have the NSA310 with a 2TB internal HD and it's perfect for me as I dont need regular backups. I have a 1tb portable HD that i attach every now and again to back up important stuff. Even with the 2TB HD I never usually have more than 1tb on it as I delete as I go. I can always get it again if I want it. I have Plex on it and it's great and since I discovered the unsupported apps it's even better. Filmon and yifi are excellent especially when used with the Now TV box.

bromley52 wrote: »

I have the NSA310 with a 2TB internal HD and it's perfect for me as I dont need regular backups. I have a 1tb portable HD that i attach every now and again to back up important stuff. Even with the 2TB HD I never usually have more than 1tb on it as I delete as I go. I can always get it again if I want it. I have Plex on it and it's great and since I discovered the unsupported apps it's even better. Filmon and yifi are excellent especially when used with the Now TV box.

So your portable HD attaches via eSata port?

cgc5483 wrote: »

The USB slot allows you to connect a drive and copy directly from USB to NAS and vice versa

It's much faster if you ssh/telnet into it and copy from there than the clicky interface

(this might be fixed in the newer ones )

I've got NSA310S recently and after long battle I finally managed to run PLEX server on in. I found only mp4 videos working (native Plex format) all other stuff gets some compatibility error (trancoding not working?).

I am checking power consumption for this NAS and so far it shows 8W in idle and 10-11W during heavy disk operation. For some reason I cant push any increase from CPU operation and that is what makes me wonder - very low CPU usage level on NSA310S. Even if I play 720P videos it never goes above 6% (actually it plays 4233kbps bitrate video but not 4600kbps). Is it normal CPU usage level? As I said - I cant play anything "heavier" to push CPU usage any higher.

Ive a feeling my 310 might be on the way out. It takes forever to load the login and any page when logged in via web browser & adding downloads takes an age waiting for it to refresh. Duno if it was the latest firmware but I must've restarted it bout 10 times in the last two weeks