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

stephendevlin · 14-02-2013 03:05PM

fergiesfolly wrote: »

Has anyone here installed Serviio on the 310.
Was looking around the forums and general consensus was thats its a better option for streaming video. Was only bothered, because my Sony Bravia won't play video files from the nas and this was supposed to be a good workaround.
I, unfortunately havn't the skills or know how to go about installing it.
Anyone here been able to?

You sure its not the tv thats incompatable with the type of file that its being presented with?

fergiesfolly · 14-02-2013 03:14PM

It'll take the same file from Serviio running on my laptop. Having said that, what files would a Sony bravio not take?

stephendevlin · 14-02-2013 03:29PM

fergiesfolly wrote: »

It'll take the same file from Serviio running on my laptop. Having said that, what files would a Sony bravio not take?

Is it a DLNA Tv?

Depends on the TV, there should be a list in the manual of what it supports DivX, DivX HD, AVI .. .etc

But if you are streaming it from the laptop to a DLNA tv then its obvious it works with that TV. So cant see Serviio being an issue on the NAS.

fergiesfolly · 14-02-2013 09:22PM

The point I was trying to make was, that the tv ( which is dlna compliant) can see the files from Serviio on my laptop, but not the same files on my nas without Serviio.
What I want to know is this, has anyone sucessfully installed Serviio on The Zyxel?

Chet T16 · 15-02-2013 01:44AM

Have you set your media receiver to Sony Bravia in the Twonky settings? I had trouble with my samsung tv before changing

fergiesfolly · 15-02-2013 02:52AM

The more and more I read this thread, the dumber I feel. How do I go about that?

stephendevlin · 15-02-2013 01:05PM

fergiesfolly wrote: »

The point I was trying to make was, that the tv ( which is dlna compliant) can see the files from Serviio on my laptop, but not the same files on my nas without Serviio.
What I want to know is this, has anyone sucessfully installed Serviio on The Zyxel?

I am open for correction but I would say it would need a rebuild of the firmware.

Access · 17-02-2013 09:38PM

Have been using showrss with the Zyxel, but it seems to be throwing up errors now as all the showrss feeds are from TPB.

Anyone else having this issue?

Basq · 17-02-2013 10:01PM

Access wrote: »

Have been using showrss with the Zyxel, but it seems to be throwing up errors now as all the showrss feeds are from TPB.

Anyone else having this issue?

Didn't download anything over the last two nights.. but all of Thursday's nights viewing came down fine.

Access · 17-02-2013 10:08PM

Basq wrote: »

Didn't download anything over the last two nights.. but all of Thursday's nights viewing came down fine.

Would it be because im with eirc0m?

Have had to search manually elsewhere for my fix of the US Office.

Basq · 17-02-2013 10:12PM

Access wrote: »

Would it be because im with eirc0m?

Unlikely enough..

Access · 17-02-2013 10:22PM

Is showrss still the only place or is there any others out there?

clancger · 19-03-2013 12:48AM

Been thinking about this for a while, and sent off a price request to Flubit for 1 of these yesterday.
They came back at £38.03 / €46.04 delivered to ParcelMotel so now in business.

eamonnq · 19-03-2013 11:22PM

clancger wrote: »

Been thinking about this for a while, and sent off a price request to Flubit for 1 of these yesterday.
They came back at £38.03 / €46.04 delivered to ParcelMotel so now in business.

Decided to get one myself, bought from dabs.ie for 55ish delivered. Too impatient to go through the Flubit route!!

massy086 · 20-03-2013 11:02PM

clancger wrote: »

Been thinking about this for a while, and sent off a price request to Flubit for 1 of these yesterday.
They came back at £38.03 / €46.04 delivered to ParcelMotel so now in business.

they priced me £34.15 great site

clancger · 21-03-2013 12:03AM

massy086 wrote: »

they priced me £34.15 great site

Was the same for me + about £4 shipping. Still on my free Parcel Motel slots.

BionicRasher · 02-04-2013 03:07PM

Spotted this
seems like a good price at about €127 delivered via Parcel Motel

http://www.cclonline.com/product/99136/NoMfgCode/Network-Storage-Drives/ZyXEL-NSA310-1-Bay-2-0TB-Network-Storage-Appliance/HDD3072H2T/

Is it worth it?
Would really like a plug it in and use it NAS so this seems ideal.

kfrp · 02-04-2013 03:09PM

tui0hcg wrote: »

Spotted this
seems like a good price at about €127 delivered via Parcel Motel

http://www.cclonline.com/product/99136/NoMfgCode/Network-Storage-Drives/ZyXEL-NSA310-1-Bay-2-0TB-Network-Storage-Appliance/HDD3072H2T/

Is it worth it?
Would really like a plug it in and use it NAS so this seems ideal.

Seems like a good deal.

stephendevlin · 03-04-2013 09:12AM

tui0hcg wrote: »

Is it worth it?
Would really like a plug it in and use it NAS so this seems ideal.

Ive been using mine for about 6 months now, no issues really, took a 3TB no problem

johnwd · 03-04-2013 10:11AM

I have it about 6 months too and am pretty pleased with it for day to day sharing of files across the house. Not all that happy about it's file transfer rate (10Mb/s) but I belief that across a network this is par for the course on these kinda things and am getting a gigabit switch to see if that will improve things. The only other thing to watch out for is that this thing formats the drive you put into it ... so you need to have a fresh drive or a backup of whatever you want to put on it - and with the aforementioned transfer rate its going to take a night or so to get it loaded up. There is one other slight annoyance ... the fan is a bit on the noisy side. Might be an issue if you need it to be silent but I can live with it where mine is parked.

Basq · 03-04-2013 10:21AM

Another tip I only discovered recently..

Was always of the opinion you needed to add torrents via the web interface but simply mapping a file share of "//NSA310/download/torrent" (not in front of it right now but something similar) and dragging and dropping torrent files into it automatically starts it downloading.

Very handy!

stephendevlin · 03-04-2013 10:35AM

johnwd wrote: »

I have it about 6 months too and am pretty pleased with it for day to day sharing of files across the house. Not all that happy about it's file transfer rate (10Mb/s) but I belief that across a network this is par for the course on these kinda things and am getting a gigabit switch to see if that will improve things. The only other thing to watch out for is that this thing formats the drive you put into it ... so you need to have a fresh drive or a backup of whatever you want to put on it - and with the aforementioned transfer rate its going to take a night or so to get it loaded up. There is one other slight annoyance ... the fan is a bit on the noisy side. Might be an issue if you need it to be silent but I can live with it where mine is parked.

Move it with a set of homeplugs

johnwd · 04-04-2013 09:17AM

johnwd wrote: »

I have it about 6 months too and am pretty pleased with it for day to day sharing of files across the house. Not all that happy about it's file transfer rate (10Mb/s) but I belief that across a network this is par for the course on these kinda things and am getting a gigabit switch to see if that will improve things. The only other thing to watch out for is that this thing formats the drive you put into it ... so you need to have a fresh drive or a backup of whatever you want to put on it - and with the aforementioned transfer rate its going to take a night or so to get it loaded up. There is one other slight annoyance ... the fan is a bit on the noisy side. Might be an issue if you need it to be silent but I can live with it where mine is parked.

So .. I got a gigabit switch in the post this morning from amazon and having set it up I can report a fourfold increase in file transfer speeds from 10mb/s to 40mb/s. So slow speeds nothing to do with the zyxel unit and more do do with my crappy broadband router.

Access · 04-04-2013 09:47AM

Thanks for the tip Basq... must try that out this evening... it does get annoying having to constantly login to add torrents.

johnwd wrote: »

So .. I got a gigabit switch in the post this morning from amazon and having set it up I can report a fourfold increase in file transfer speeds from 10mb/s to 40mb/s. So slow speeds nothing to do with the zyxel unit and more do do with my crappy broadband router.

I take it you are using a crappy eircom router like myself? am looking to get a gigabit switch myself to help with the transfer speeds... what particular switch did you go for can i ask?

johnwd · 04-04-2013 10:03AM

Access wrote: »

I take it you are using a crappy eircom router like myself? am looking to get a gigabit switch myself to help with the transfer speeds... what particular switch did you go for can i ask?

Vodafone router with 10/100 Ethernet. I got this from Amazon for £23 - very cheap upgrade (I bought it direct from amazon but I can't seem to find the direct link to their version of the product despite clicking on my order history!)

johnybean · 04-04-2013 11:09AM

Basq wrote: »

Another tip I only discovered recently..

Was always of the opinion you needed to add torrents via the web interface but simply mapping a file share of "//NSA310/download/torrent" (not in front of it right now but something similar) and dragging and dropping torrent files into it automatically starts it downloading.

Very handy!

Hi Basq,

Just saw this tip now and seems like the answer to a lot of my prayers! Just wondering, are you referring to the network folder //network/NSA310/Download/Torrent ?
If so, is it just a matter of dropping a torrent file into this folder? Also, where does the file download to? I have a few separate folders for TV,film,music etc so would this just download to a single folder eg "completed downloads" and I would then have to move the file to the correct folder? Sorry for all the questions

:o

Basq · 04-04-2013 11:30AM

johnybean wrote: »

Just saw this tip now and seems like the answer to a lot of my prayers! Just wondering, are you referring to the network folder //network/NSA310/Download/Torrent ?

Yeah, whatever the default location for torrents is on the NSA310... whenever you add a torrent via the web interface, it goes here until it's completed.

This is obviously monitored for new torrents and the NSA310 downloads automatically when it detects a new torrent, so you can skip the web interface entirely.

johnybean wrote: »

If so, is it just a matter of dropping a torrent file into this folder?

Exactly.. you just map the share and drop the torrent in there.

johnybean wrote: »

Also, where does the file download to? I have a few separate folders for TV,film,music etc so would this just download to a single folder eg "completed downloads" and I would then have to move the file to the correct folder?

There's a default folder for these files - think it's typically "incoming" on the root of the NSA310. It goes there.. once done, you could move it to the folder you'd typically use though.

SteM · 04-04-2013 11:36AM

johnybean wrote: »

Hi Basq,

Just saw this tip now and seems like the answer to a lot of my prayers! Just wondering, are you referring to the network folder //network/NSA310/Download/Torrent ?
If so, is it just a matter of dropping a torrent file into this folder? Also, where does the file download to? I have a few separate folders for TV,film,music etc so would this just download to a single folder eg "completed downloads" and I would then have to move the file to the correct folder? Sorry for all the questions :o

Just tested this now.

There will be a folder on the NAS called

\admin\download\torrent

Just drop or save the .torrent file in there and the NAS will start downloading it automatically to the folder.

\admin\download

This download folder can be changed under
main screen: 'Manage The Device'
-> 'Applications - Download Service'
-> Preferences
-> Edit

Would be nice to have a filter here so that all AVIs and MP4s go to \Video and all MP3s go to \Music but I don't think that's available.

johnybean · 04-04-2013 11:52AM

Thanks for the quick replies guys. Cant wait to get home and set this up now

P.S.

Has anyone managed to add torrents when outside the home network i.e. at work/from your smartphone?

iPhone. · 04-04-2013 01:18PM

It's definitely a brilliant piece of kit for the money, I would have no problem recommending it to anyone.

Zyxel seem to have given up on updating the firmware though, nothing new for a good while.

A few extra things I would love would be an IP Camera/DVR package added to the optional packages list and the existing Polkast package updated so that it allows the addition of other folders on the Zyxel other than the default ones similar to the way it allows you to include extra folders on a pc to the polkast app for example.

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

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