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

Chet T16 · 28-02-2012 1:55pm

I got one of these from ibood a while ago, they're great.

They're actually running a webserver with php and mysql so you can run pretty much any site off it from what i can see

Any idea on the best way to transfer 400GB of mp3's from my NAS to this? At the minute i have them both mapped as drives in a pc and trying a folder sync but its sllooowwww

kaizersoze · 28-02-2012 2:07pm

Basq wrote: »

There's a decent quick start guide.. basically:

a) use a coin or screwdrive to open the enclosure
b) install a SATA hard drive in it, and close it (all data will be wiped off, so bear that in mind!)
c) connect power supply to wall and ethernet cable to router (both supplied). Prop it alongside your router and turn it on.
d) install the software from CD, or get it from here!
e) follow configuration instructions in here / access the web interface.

Just to add for those who bought the Dabs model with the pre-installed hard drive...
If you want to remove/upgrade the 500gig drive, the single screw used to open the enclosure won't release the drive. There is another screw inside fixing the drive to the metal frame. You have to open the 4 small screws inside. This allows the frame to slide out half way so you can remove the other fixing screw.

snowblind · 28-02-2012 4:39pm

Has anyone used this in combination with a PS3?
I want to use my PS3 as a media player, but browsing things is always ridiculously slow from my external FAT32 drive connected to the console.

Would this solve the problems with speed, if I had this connected to the router and would connect to this wirelessly from PS3?

Basq · 28-02-2012 4:52pm

snowblind wrote: »

Has anyone used this in combination with a PS3?
I want to use my PS3 as a media player, but browsing things is always ridiculously slow from my external FAT32 drive connected to the console.

Would this solve the problems with speed, if I had this connected to the router and would connect to this wirelessly from PS3?

Connecting directly via USB should certainly be faster than accessing it wirelessly.

I've used my PS3 with an external HDD and it works just fine.. never noticed it being particularly slow.

Although might depend how the disk is organised - is stuff sorted into folders or just files littered on the root of the disk? As the latter would suggest trying to retrieve filesizes / metadata of each of the videos. If it's the former - my advice would be put your money towards a USB disk with better read / write speeds, rather than this.

snowblind · 28-02-2012 5:12pm

Basq wrote: »

Connecting directly via USB should certainly be faster than accessing it wirelessly.

I've used my PS3 with an external HDD and it works just fine.. never noticed it being particularly slow.

Although might depend how the disk is organised - is stuff sorted into folders or just files littered on the root of the disk? As the latter would suggest trying to retrieve filesizes / metadata of each of the videos. If it's the former - my advice would be put your money towards a USB disk with better read / write speeds, rather than this.

Things are sorted pretty well into categoried folders etc.

I guess the issue is the lack of any sort of media library buffer on PS3, it will always search for the directories again and again. I refuse to categorize my music, and browsing through the list of artist takes a lot of time. Movies are much more easily branched out.

Thor · 28-02-2012 8:07pm

Okay, You all have me convinced that this is worth buying.

Not sure whether to go for the diskless version or not.

Simply question for those that ordered from CCLonline.

How long did it take to get to you.

As if i ordered it tonight and it shipped tomorrow, Would i get it by the Friday.

DPD from the UK to Ireland are normally always a two day service so, I should but just want to confirm.

Thanks in advance

Basq · 28-02-2012 8:29pm

Thor wrote: »

How long did it take to get to you.

As if i ordered it tonight and it shipped tomorrow, Would i get it by the Friday.

DPD from the UK to Ireland are normally always a two day service so, I should but just want to confirm.

Thanks in advance

I ordered it last Tuesday.. and it arrived on Monday, but according to DPD.. it was out for delivery last Friday but they couldn't locate my address (whether that's true or not is another thing).

I'd say you should have it by Friday if you order tonight.

Callipo · 28-02-2012 8:34pm

Thor wrote: »

Okay, You all have me convinced that this is worth buying.

Not sure whether to go for the diskless version or not.

Simply question for those that ordered from CCLonline.

How long did it take to get to you.

As if i ordered it tonight and it shipped tomorrow, Would i get it by the Friday.

DPD from the UK to Ireland are normally always a two day service so, I should but just want to confirm.

Thanks in advance

I ordered at 13:32 Yesterday (Monday)
Dispatched at 15:34 ish Yesterday.

Arrived today during lunch. (Dublin Business address)

I nearly fell off my chair with shock. I don't think I have ever seen such a fast turn around in my life....

RobertFoster · 28-02-2012 8:43pm

Ordered from CCL on Thursday. Dispatch email at 12:08 yesterday. Arrived about 16:30 today.

Thor · 28-02-2012 8:55pm

My god, That was some quick deliveries, Ordering now.

Going for the diskless versions as i have a 1TB versions here, It has stacks of films on it from old dvd rips, But i have been meaning to delete them for awhile now.

Slapping it into the NAS will do that for me.

Thanks for the help everyone.

Really shocked DPD get it over in one day.

**EDIT**

Couldn't use Paypal as i kept getting a CCLonline oops page, So just placed order with credit card.

Thanks again everyone for the help, looking forward to it arriving and setting it up.

n97 mini · 29-02-2012 1:39am

It's worth pointing out that your data is not especially safe on one of these, and you should still back up the family photos etc to DVD-R.

Keith186 wrote: »

Dual bay NAS going cheap on Amazon which will let you do a RAID set up.

Not sure if I need it at all myself. Havent ordered yet...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Link-ShareCenter-Network-Storage-Enclosure/dp/B004AIWOXY/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1330342886&sr=1-1

I have one of these with 2 x 1TB drives installed in a RAID 1 config. What is nice is that if you only have 1 drive to begin with you can add a 2nd later and make them both into a RAID 1 array without having to wipe anything. It consumes 5 watts when not in use too (the main reason for buying it), tho from reading the reviews it seems it's not the best choice for Mac users, but I have found it works perfectly for me.

With a RAID 1 array the chances of data loss is greatly reduced. If a drive has a 5% chance of failure within 3 years, then 2 drives in a RAID 1 array have a 0.25% chance of failure, but in reality it is less as if one drive fails it will be replaced before the second drive has a chance to.

Thor · 29-02-2012 1:41am

n97 mini wrote: »

It's worth pointing out that your data is not especially safe on one of these, and you should still back up the family photos etc to DVD-R.

I have one of these with 2 x 1TB drives installed in a RAID 1 config. What is nice is that if you only have 1 drive to begin with you can add a 2nd later and make them both into a RAID 1 array without having to wipe anything. It consumes 5 watts when not in use too (the main reason for buying it), tho from reading the reviews it seems it's not the best choice for Mac users, but I have found it works perfectly for me.

With a RAID 1 array the chance of data loss are greatly reduced. If a drive has a 5% chance of failure within 3 years, then 2 drive in a RAID 1 array have a 0.25% chance of failure, but in reality it is less as if one drive fails it will be replaced before the second drive has a chance to.

DVD-R!!!

What's that!!!

Joking aside, For the important stuff, Online is your best choice, Even in multiple places with different cloud services like DropBox.

But more towards the NAS. I have been reading about it and it does seem possible to install Sabnzbd onto this thing.

n97 mini · 01-03-2012 12:26am

Thor wrote: »

DVD-R!!!

What's that!!!

Joking aside, For the important stuff, Online is your best choice,

See, with real fault tolerance the need for backups is greatly reduced. All my important stuff is on my RAID 1 box.

Red Crow · 01-03-2012 2:20am

Will this work with the boxee?

ikol_ · 02-03-2012 10:27am

bought one of these the other day got it deliever yesterday, nice bit of kit, tried using the copy sync on it to transfer over from my old media drive with 950gig of stuff and its failed twice on me so far, at around 170 gig and 200 gig. think i might have to manually transfer the data across, only down side to it so far

uck51js9zml2yt · 02-03-2012 2:58pm

Mine arrived today and set up reasonably easily.

Only problem is there is no instructions on how to use the device!

How do I move files from my laptop to the NSA ?

wolfyboy555 · 02-03-2012 5:17pm

Got dispatch email monday but still havent got it:(

wolfyboy555 · 02-03-2012 5:37pm

Does anyone know what number i use to track my order?

Basq · 02-03-2012 5:48pm

Kensley Rancid Pumpernickel wrote: »

Mine arrived today and set up reasonably easily.

Only problem is there is no instructions on how to use the device!

How do I move files from my laptop to the NSA ?

Jaysus.. if you can't manage that, I don't know how good this item will be to you.

There's a quick start guide which should give you an outline - in work so can't explain it in detail, but google Mapping Network Drives.

wolfyboy555 wrote: »

Does anyone know what number i use to track my order?

In the e-mail you got with dispatch, it should have: www.dpd.co.uk/tracking/trackingSearch.do?search.searchType=1&search.consignmentNumber=XXXXXXXXX

That link should let you track it.

If it didn't come with that consignment number (mine didn't), e-mail them.

mp3ireland2 · 02-03-2012 6:19pm

ANybody have success doing the back up method via usb? How long would it take for 1tb do ya reckon? Haven't got a disk yet or set it up but just curious! Disk is ordered.

Thor · 02-03-2012 6:20pm

wolfyboy555 wrote: »

Got dispatch email monday but still havent got it:(

Thats weird.

I ordered Tuesday night, Dispatched Wednesday and got it today.

Just about to install sab onto it.

So hopefully that goes well.

uck51js9zml2yt · 02-03-2012 7:01pm

Basq wrote: »

Jaysus.. if you can't manage that, I don't know how good this item will be to you.

There's a quick start guide which should give you an outline - in work so can't explain it in detail, but google Mapping Network Drives.

In the e-mail you got with dispatch, it should have: www.dpd.co.uk/tracking/trackingSearch.do?search.searchType=1&search.consignmentNumber=XXXXXXXXX

That link should let you track it.

If it didn't come with that consignment number (mine didn't), e-mail them.

Got is sorted and found a soft copy of the manual on the disk.
I'm backing up the laptops as i write.

btw....my name isn't Jayus !

If you log into your order on dabs you can go to tracking and see where your drive is.

wolfyboy555 · 02-03-2012 7:35pm

Basq wrote: »

Jaysus.. if you can't manage that, I don't know how good this item will be to you.

There's a quick start guide which should give you an outline - in work so can't explain it in detail, but google Mapping Network Drives.

In the e-mail you got with dispatch, it should have: www.dpd.co.uk/tracking/trackingSearch.do?search.searchType=1&search.consignmentNumber=XXXXXXXXX

That link should let you track it.

If it didn't come with that consignment number (mine didn't), e-mail them.

My e-mail only has 'www.dpd.co.uk/tracking/trackingSearch.do?search.searchType=1&search.consignmentNumber='

It doesnt have the consignment number! I emailed cclonline about it

Thor · 02-03-2012 7:38pm

wolfyboy555 wrote: »

My e-mail only has 'www.dpd.co.uk/tracking/trackingSearch.do?search.searchType=1&search.consignmentNumber='

It doesnt have the consignment number! I emailed cclonline about it

Same as me, I contacted them the day it was dispatched and they said they didn't have it and would send it to me in the morning.

They never did.

So I contacted again that day and again they didn't have it yet at the time of reply and said he would said it over to me later that day. He never did.

Contacted them today and what do you know, the package arrived before he got back to me with the tracking number.

The agent i was dealing with was named Nowell.

So chances are if you email them, he will be the one you get in contact with.

Basq · 02-03-2012 7:40pm

Same thing happened me Thor..

.. and it was Nowell too!

Thor · 02-03-2012 7:41pm

Basq wrote: »

Same thing happened me Thor..

.. and it was Nowell too!

Got to love there customer service.

wolfyboy555 · 02-03-2012 7:42pm

I'm looking forward to hearing from this guy!:D

finno · 02-03-2012 8:13pm

Will this work with a mac?

Basq · 02-03-2012 8:47pm

finno wrote: »

Will this work with a mac?

Yep, am using it with a Mac myself.

finno · 02-03-2012 9:30pm

Basq wrote: »

Yep, am using it with a Mac myself.

Great just bought one

Thor · 02-03-2012 9:37pm

Quick question for anyone that got one.

Does yours say TDC on the front have looks different than the Zyxel one in the picture.

Everything is the same except the mine only has two lights, the power button and copy and sync button.

Shouldn't make a difference, but just wondering why it's different.

RobertFoster · 03-03-2012 2:03am

Mine is the same as the picture - 6 lights (including the power button), and 2 buttons (power and copy/sync).

Would anyone consider it a little noisy? I have it set to wind down the HDD after 5 minutes of inactivity, but even after that there's still a constant hum. The power, system, and HDD lights are always on too, and the LAN lights at the back flash every so often. Just wondering if that's normal.

nodolan · 03-03-2012 7:52am

RobertFoster wrote: »

Mine is the same as the picture - 6 lights (including the power button), and 2 buttons (power and copy/sync).

Would anyone consider it a little noisy? I have it set to wind down the HDD after 5 minutes of inactivity, but even after that there's still a constant hum. The power, system, and HDD lights are always on too, and the LAN lights at the back flash every so often. Just wondering if that's normal.

This is what I was talking about with my 221. I have mine near my sofa and the constant noise got too much. I ended up switching off all the extra features and now I use it just as a network drive (nice and quiet). If I had it in another room maybe it wouldn't bother me as much but tbh it would bother me that the lifetime (MTTF) of my drives might be reduced.

Basq · 03-03-2012 11:49am

To be honest, I think it's suprisingly quiet. Use a 5 bay Thecus N5200 in work which regularly retails for close to a grand... and it's quieter than that.

I have mine in a separate room too though.

RobertFoster · 03-03-2012 1:25pm

I have it in a hallway, so it wouldn't distract me if I'm streaming media. It's noticeable though, so I was just concerned mine might be dodgy, or it wasn't shutting down properly because of other things on the network keeping it awake.

Are the three lights still on on yours, Basq, when it's not in use?

AntiRip · 03-03-2012 3:17pm

Basq wrote: »

Can't see why not.. once the drive is mapped to your PC, you could just set your download path in JDownloader as the mapped drive,

Just read this again. That means I'd have to keep my laptop on over night as well.

Would love if I could have JDownloader on the NAS itself? I suppose you'd have to have an OS on it then?

Also, I wonder would my tablet pick this up for streaming. The tablet would obviously need a client to connect to the NAS.

What I've been looking for for a long time now is a low powered box with utorrent & JDownloader with storage on it so I could free up my laptop.

Basq · 03-03-2012 5:44pm

RobertFoster wrote: »

Are the three lights still on on yours, Basq, when it's not in use?

Yeah.. but they should be.

Power (top-blue light) indicates it's currently powered on.
Sys (next green light) indicates that it's system / network is online.
HDD (next green light) indicates that a hard drive is installed.

AntiRip wrote: »

Would love if I could have JDownloader on the NAS itself? I suppose you'd have to have an OS on it then?

It does support a couple of the one-click hosting sites like Rapidshare directly..

.. where would you typically be downloading from using JDownloader for?

AntiRip wrote: »

Also, I wonder would my tablet pick this up for streaming. The tablet would obviously need a client to connect to the NAS.

What tablet do you have? There's bound to be a media player application for it that supports mapped drives on it.. there's a couple of them for the iPad alone.

AntiRip wrote: »

What I've been looking for for a long time now is a low powered box with utorrent & JDownloader with storage on it so I could free up my laptop.

It supports torrents and RSS feeds so that's covered.. but I'm not sure what exactly one-click hosting sites it supports bar Rapidshare and the now defunct Megaupload.

Cherry_Cola · 03-03-2012 6:21pm

I'm quite new to the whole NAS thing but my uses for it would be very much the same as AntiRips.

Would people reckon this is a good one to go for or would I be better off getting one with multiple bays?

Ideally, I'd like to use it to manage downloads and sort the files into the appropriate folders, is this easily achievable?

Also, is it possible to access files from this if I was elsewhere, i.e would I be able to stream my home movies if I was in a different country?

Basq · 03-03-2012 6:33pm

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

Would people reckon this is a good one to go for or would I be better off getting one with multiple bays?

I don't see the need for multiple bays to be honest.. if you're storing crucial data on it, then possibly.

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

Ideally, I'd like to use it to manage downloads and sort the files into the appropriate folders, is this easily achievable?

Well, I've mine set up with RSS feeds so it downloads directly into a video share with the RSS feed name as a folder, and in a subfolder incoming (as indicated below):

NSA 310
-> video
--> Lost
---> incoming
----> Lost.S01E01.avi

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

Also, is it possible to access files from this if I was elsewhere, i.e would I be able to stream my home movies if I was in a different country?

Yep, you can install this on the NSA310.

Cherry_Cola · 03-03-2012 6:41pm

That's me sold on it, thanks very much.

AntiRip · 03-03-2012 7:04pm

Basq wrote: »

.. where would you typically be downloading from using JDownloader for?

Multiple hosters really using realdebrid so that's why I use JD

Basq wrote: »

What tablet do you have? There's bound to be a media player application for it that supports mapped drives on it.. there's a couple of them for the iPad alone.

I use a SGT10.1 so hopefully. I will search the Marketplace to see.

Basq wrote: »

It supports torrents and RSS feeds so that's covered.. but I'm not sure what exactly one-click hosting sites it supports bar Rapidshare and the now defunct Megaupload.

I will def look more into this.

Thanks for the help Basq

settings · 04-03-2012 2:25pm

Just came across this at hotukdeals.

Cherry_Cola · 04-03-2012 2:37pm

settings wrote: »

Just came across this at hotukdeals.

Not available to Ireland unfortunately. It is available for the same price here however: http://www.cclonline.com/product/75856/91-016-007007B/Network-Storage-Enclosures/ZyXEL-NSA310-1-Bay-Network-Storage-Appliance-Diskless/HDD3072/

Not sure on the shipping cost from there though.

AntiRip · 04-03-2012 6:28pm

Think I'm going to wait for the Raspberry Pi. It may be a while before I get it but for 30 odd euros I can wait. Just what I'm looking for really, low powered (5V!) usbs, ethernet, even hdmi out. Possibilities are endless really!

mp3ireland2 · 04-03-2012 6:48pm

AntiRip wrote: »

Think I'm going to wait for the Raspberry Pi. It may be a while before I get it but for 30 odd euros I can wait. Just what I'm looking for really, low powered (5V!) usbs, ethernet, even hdmi out. Possibilities are endless really!

That looks pretty cool.... no idea what I'd use one for but I want it!

Thor · 04-03-2012 11:55pm

Anyone good with python here.

I have installed FFP on this and have it up and running, But trying to get Cheetah to install and it isn't accepting the version of Python i have installed, I can't find an oarm version of Python-2.7 and without it, I don't think i can install Cheetah without Cheetah I can't install SAbnzbd.

Anyone smarter than me here that knows how to get it working(I assume there is many)

This would be great if i got it working with sabnzbd and doing so makes this the coolest NAS for €55.

Basq · 05-03-2012 11:27am

Thor wrote: »

Anyone good with python here.

I have installed FFP on this and have it up and running, But trying to get Cheetah to install and it isn't accepting the version of Python i have installed, I can't find an oarm version of Python-2.7 and without it, I don't think i can install Cheetah without Cheetah I can't install SAbnzbd.

Anyone smarter than me here that knows how to get it working(I assume there is many)

This would be great if i got it working with sabnzbd and doing so makes this the coolest NAS for €55.

http://forum.nas-central.org/viewtopic.php?f=249&t=5439

Daniel S · 05-03-2012 5:38pm

Basq wrote: »

I've been pronouncing it "Ziks-Ell" like some kind of German dictator! :pac:

I've been calling it Zy-tel for years, even though I know there's an "x" in it

EDIT: "The original idea was ZyTEL ("Zy" means nothing, "TEL" for telecommunications). The problem was that someone already had this name announced for the show. So they played around with the letters and came up with ZyXEL instead."

I was incorrectly correct! :pac:

Thor · 05-03-2012 9:55pm

Basq wrote: »

http://forum.nas-central.org/viewtopic.php?f=249&t=5439

Yeah, I have been reading everywhere, I read that a few days ago, not sure how but some people on other forums have posted that they have it working.

Not sure how, as none of them have said how. But I'm hoping the firmware update will help. Although i did find a leaked version of it and it didn't work, either because ffp-stick doesn't support it yet or the firmware actively stops it from working.

Here's hoping it will work soon.

wolfyboy555 · 06-03-2012 5:22pm

How is this working out for people! STILL havent recieved mine. Rang up dpd after i got my consignment number and it had to wrong address for some reason. They said i should have it by tomorrow though

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

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