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

I see some people have Plex server installed on these........most of my downloads at home are 480p MKV's will this NAS work for me or will i have transcoding issues trying to view these on Android devices?

jabberwock wrote: »

My NSA325 died or at least is not working right. Keeps rebooting itself. Trying to use the Forums over on NAS Central to get some help.
Hopefully can get the drives accessible through a linux distro so I can move them on to something else.
Trying to decide to get a 325V2 or not.

What lights are on the box ?
Can you login to teh web panel ?

banie01 wrote: »

Folks,
I'm looking for a little advice on setting up a web share?
Previously I would share a media folder via FTP with my brother across the web however now I'm looking to share that particular folder with a few other people.

What is the best way to this?
Ideally I'd like to allow web access to just that specific folder, with a user name/password combo.
Whats the best way to allow this on the standard Zyxel Firmware?

I've tried the web-publishing option but as far as i can make out his jus publishes the share, it doesn't allow username/password access?
Unless I'm missing something obvious....

Down the left there's a groups / shares options. Have a looksie in there.

Ste- wrote: »

What lights are on the box ?
Can you login to teh web panel ?

power light comes on, blinks once and stays solid for about 2-3 mins. It then blinks off and stays solid again. Rinse/repeat.

Doesn't appear to get far enough in to boot to pick up a USB with a old firmware (apparent possible fix).

Ste- wrote: »

Down the left there's a groups / shares options. Have a looksie in there.

Have done, but for some reason whenever I activate a web publish share and specify user access rather than admin access the web interface itself stops working.
I get to the zyxel log on screen and after login the connection just times out.
I'll just carry on with FTP access via web for the time being I think and hope that the folks I want to share with can just get their heads round filezilla

i had a similar problem, luckily i was still under guarantee, so got replacement. i asked over on nas central and was told it could be fixed, but it required skills that were above my head.


http://forum.nas-central.org/viewtopic.php?f=249&t=15799&p=86719&hilit=nsa+325+v2+keeps+rebooting#p86719

For anyone having issues with Flickr on NSA310 or other models there are hotfixes available. Flickr changed from http to https causing the problem

http://www.zyxelforum.de/*hotfix*-flickr-service-funktioniert-nicht-*alle-modelle*-t7484.html

Download the relavent .bin file and add it to the NSA as a firmware update.
Once the update is finished the green system light will start flashing. If it does not stop flashing after about 15min, turn off the NSA and restart. After about 5 min it should stop flashing. This worked for me and now I can link to my Flickr account.

Since upgrading to a gigabit router, my NSA310 is frequently crashing when I am transferring a file from my PC to the NAS HDD. It transfers at around 40 MB/s, the NAS CPU usage shoots up to 100% and then it crashes. I have to pull the power to get it to respond, the button on the front will not turn it off.

I've had to switch back to a CAT5 cable and transfer at 11 MB/s for now. But would anyone know if there is a setting I have to change somewhere to stop it crashing, or can I limit the speed so it does not reach 40 MB/s and crash?

Having a weird issue with my NSA310 since yesterday whereby the Admin screen is completely greyed out when viewed through Chrome. It works fine through Internet Explorer.

Has anyone else come across this issue before?

Anyone know the drive size limit for the NSA310? - Whats the biggest it supports?

I have a 3tb WD in it at the moment and might want to go bigger - anyone tried a 4tb or larger in theirs?

maximus02 wrote: »

Zyxel have a list of compatible disks here:

http://www.zyxel.com/ProductTab.shtml?pid=20130508092208&idx=9&c=gb&l=en

Hope this helps.

Spot on... just the list i needed - seems to take a 6TB no problem!

Thanks maximus02

m4r10 wrote: »

I tried reformatting the HD through the NAS interface,

This part is probably the problem. The NAS box doesn't use the same file system as Windows.

I'm actually getting a new NSA325 in the next few days and can test it but iirc, you want to use your external as a normal windows format if you plan on moving it back and forth from the nas/pc.

m4r10 wrote: »

THe external HD was formatted as a NTFS, which Windows should see without problem. I wont move the HD back and forth, just once off as I got a bigger HD to use with the NAS. And anyway, the external HD needs to be formatted at first time use through NAS interface in order to be used, so that's not something you'd want to do very often.

Back to the point, I "think" i got a breakthrough, I formatted the HD as a EXT4, then used Ext2Mgr program to assign a letter to it, and finally was seen in WIndows. As we speak, I have Windows formatting it. Fingers crossed all goes well. I'll update the thread at the end.

cool, I'll be doing something similar myself when I get my new one.

hi all. I seem to be having an issue with my NSA310 (lateset firmware 4.70 I think).

It seems to be the Twonky media server which is the issue.

When it is running it seems to hog the CPU. My CPU is always at 100% usage. If I turn off Twonky, the CPU load is around 5%.

I noticed that if I start to stream a movie on another device (TV, phone etc) using Twonky the movie plays fine, but it also seems to remove my NSA310 from the network.....so if I want to play another movie I have to re-toggle Twonky off and then on again.

I've noticed that when I start Twonky and go to the Twonky settings page, it states that Twonky is scanning the media directories. I've left this running overnight a few times and it just seems to hang / crash...... this might explain the issues I am having and also other people are having?

I read a blog about editing the twonkysettings.ini file to change the thumbnail cache settings. Apparently Twonky tries to create thumbnails for all photos on the drive, hogging the CPU and finally crashing. Anyway the changes didn't work for me. I guess I could exclude the photos directory from within the Twonky settings page, and see if it works. I don't really need photos available via DLNA.

Or I might install Plesk or minidlna :-)