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

does the 320 do the same thing as the 310 except with 2 bays? reason I ask is that its on amazon at 57 pounds which seems a good deal if i want to do raid on it in future years but concerned it doesn't do same features such as torrent/rss feeds etc.....or do they just have the same software?

Access wrote: »

Am looking to be able to send a torrent to my nas via dropbox... so have downloaded dropbox to my phone and desktop but not sure on the setup of it all.

I was able to set this up back in Feb. However this seems to be no longer working for new users.

When I set it up I used the NAS Admin console, under Dropbox you have the ability to enable "dropbox", this would take you to a dropbox admin page where you provide your dropbox details which launched a popup window to give permission on dropbox for your NAS drive.
However, I believe since something in March, Dropbox are now blocking this functionality as Zyxel are using an old API to communicate with Dropbox. I believe Zyxel will need to release a patch.

It appears to work fine for users prior to the switch over, but not possible for new users.

Info here: http://forum.nas-central.org/viewtopic.php?f=249&t=8355

@ j@yk@y and ongarite

Thanks for the info... i spotted that last night after a bit of research on NAS central and the Zyxel forums.

A lot of peeps are wary of the beta release of the 4.60 firmware for the NSA310... a few bugs reported already, but a quick google translation on the zyxel germany forums shows that there is a final release of the 4.60 firmware to the public set for the 21st of May coming after all beta testing is completed.

So, i only have to wait a month which is fine by me.

The new firmware sorts out the dropbox issues from what i have read along with a few minor fixes too.

7 months on from when i bought the NSA310 and its still going strong. Apart from a few niggles... but its still brilliant for the money and great for streaming media to XBMC units around the house.

The Sparrow wrote: »

Thinking of buying a NSA310 from CCL or Flubit and getting a Raspberry Pi to stream through to the TV. Do they work well together? I've read the thread and there seems to be mixed opinions but hopefully it has all been resolved by now.

Also, I'll need a drive but I'm wondering whether I'd be able to use my Seagate GoFlex portable hard drive as an internal drive for it? The drive has an eSata connection.

I have the nsa streaming to a normal htpc in livingroom and a pi in the bedroom... all working great, so yeah go for it. Just make sure you use the raspbmc version of xbmc as its the easiest to get up and running on the pi. I have used all versions running xbmc for the pi but raspbmc from the main xbmc.org website is really good since they sorted out the little bugs.

Have a look at the HTPC & Media Centre forum here on boards... it a great resource for setting it all up. And also have a look at the Raspberry Pi forum section on xbmc.org too.

As for the goflex drive you have, have a read back through this thread as a lot of buyers just went ahead and invested in a good 2 or 3TB 3.5 inch hard drive instead as the Nas will be running 24/7 in most cases... apart from it spinning down... it will mostly be running when a device calls for media from it.

It will also format any drive you place into it. There is no way around this as it needs to create its own file structure.

But you will be able to plug any usb key or drive including your goflex into the usb ports both back and front and be able to access them without any format involved.

Brilliant device... any more questions, just ask.

I love the look of XBMC but I've had nothing but trouble with my Pi, just can't seem to get it working consistently with any version of XBMC I've tried. Will keep at it but it's doing my head in to be honest. I have 2 of these running with the NSA 310 and have had no problem with either once the Library functionality is turned off.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Live-Streaming-Media-Player/dp/B005NYOKC2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366713425&sr=8-1&keywords=wd+live

Sorry to hear that lads... i have to admit it did drive me insane trying to setup the pi from day one... but within 2 weekends of evenings, a lot of research on forums and after the latest release of raspbmc (final version) in march, it has been running so sweet with the quartz (apple tv style low power grabbing) skin and the NAS310 from this thread.

And... it runs at 5 - 6 watts of power! (our old dell SFF desktop HTPC runs at 130 - 175 watts)

Like i say, the HTPC forum on boards is brilliant as well as the xbmc forums.

I love the pi so much that i am getting one for the guest room and another for the kids playroom in the near future.

As for the ugliness of the pi... get one of the laser cut cases on ebay (about €6 delivered) for it and attach it to the back of your tv (via the vesa bolting points). No wires can be seen or accessed by small hands then.

johnybean wrote: »

I stumbled across an rss function on kickasstorrents.ph this evening and while I can add other torrents to the broadcast section of the nsa310 and they start to download no problem, when I add torrents through the kat.ph rss feed they just appear in the list but don't download but they also don't trigger any errors, they just sit there. Does anyone have any experience of adding rss feeds from torrent sites successfully as I think this would be a very handy function to have

I would like to know the same thing, I have the NSA325 which i think has the same software. I was getting very slow speeds on the built in torrent client until I realised that if you limit the upload speed, it affects the download speed for no reason (checked all other settings). Also notice that the default location of downloads goes back to the admin folder on reboot even though i had it changed.
Regarding RSS, i tried setting one up but its very vague in nsa. I took one from TPB from a certain user but I can't seem to specify a certain program from that user so concerned it would download all their new programs. Also how do you trigger it to start?

Last question, if you set power off for the night, does it auto check new torrents when it switches on?
Was thinking of putting transmission on it if that does the job any betteR?

true but only thing is that most torrents download within a 3-4 hour timeframe anyways.
In reality, HDD should last a long long long time if they are going to last at all. I don't think I have ever had a HDD failure and they have been running 24 hours for years.

Ver 4.51 Firmware available now too.

Same here, the PDF for the release notes just errored out for me, can't see anything hugely exciting added though.

Grabbed the 325 myself. Set it up with 2 3TB drives.
Anyone managed to set up the email reporting on it?
Trying to use Gmail but getting connection failed.

iPhone. wrote: »

Not familiar with the 325 but I do know that for email reporting Gmail only supports TLS at port 465 and STARTTLS at port 25/587.

Try setting your SMTP server at : smtp.gmail.com and SMTP port at : 25

This is all I have to work with afaik

Leaving gmail out of it, any recommendation on a free provider i could get to work this this?

iPhone. wrote: »

You should be able to get it working with your Gmail though, try this:

Email to and Email From - enter your gmail address in both of these

Email Sever - enter - smtp.gmail.com

Email Format is fine set at HTML

Tick 'Use SMTP Authentication' and enter the following

User - Enter your Gmail Address here again eg. xxxxx@gmail.com

Password/Confirm - Enter your Gmail password twice

Tick the box for after applying settings, send a test email and you should receive an email confirmation to your Gmail showing all is set up correctly.

Tried already. No joy.

iPhone. wrote: »

Just checked out the NSA325 and from what I can see the problem may be it only supports POP3, have a look at the link below, it should allow you to change your Gmail settings to work with POP3 and your NSA325 hopefully

CHANGE GMAIL TO POP3

giving up on gmail for this. the change in port seems to be the catch here.

i have pop3 active since 2007 apparently.