Configuration NAS Mnemosyne

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Here is the page dedicated to our home NAS (Synology NAS DS409+), called Mnemosyne.

First install

  • Mounted 4 harddrives Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS
  • Plugged power & Ethernet (on home intranet), then power on.
  • (under Linux) Launched DSAssistant.i386... Server not found
  • (reboot in Windows) Launched Synology Assistant... found!
  • Step-by-step installation (see data below)
  • Disk formatting (system partition / data partition)
  • Logged into Disk Station Manager (see data below)
    • !!! login does not work with Internet Explorer (password not accepted) !!!
  • Set up language
  • Set up e-mail notification
  • Created volume
  • Created users
  • Created shared folders
  • Defined file sharing (windows,NFS)

Configuration

  • System
    • Network
      • Server Name: Mnemosyne
      • Network config: automatic (DHCP)
    • Language
      • Display: English
    • Time
      • Time zone: (UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris
    • Notification
      • SMTP server: smtp.scarlet.be
      • SMTP port: 25
      • Primary mail: michael.peeters@scarlet.be
      • Secondary mail: michael.peeters@noekeon.be
    • Power
      • Scheduled Power On: Weekdays, 17:30
      • Scheduled Power Off: Daily, 01:00
    • Firmware Update:
      • Version: DSM 2.1-0844 on 2009/04/21 (file synology_ppc853x_409+_0844.pat)
  • Privileges
    • Users:
      • Admin user: admin
      • Enabled user guest
      • New users: backup (User to create backup), media (User to write media data (audio,video), photos (Store photos and videos)
    • Shared folder
      • backup (For PC backups) (RW: backups - RO:everybody)
      • musics (Audio CD, mp3, ogg...) (RW: media - RO:everybody)
      • photos (Photos album) (RW: photos - RO:everybody)
      • public (Public folder) (RW: everybody)
      • videos (Video DVD, SVCD...) (RW: media - RO:everybody)
  • Storage
    • Volume
      • Volume 1: 4 disk volume, RAID 5, Complete consistency check
  • File Sharing
    • Win/Mac OS
      • Enable Windows file service: enabled
        • Enable Windows file service
        • Workgroup: HELL
        • Optimize CIFS database operations: disabled (see [1])
        • Enable Local Master Broser: disabled
        • Enable CIFS Recycle Bin: disabled
      • Enable AppleTalk: disabled
    • NFS
      • NFS Service: enabled

To Do

  • Enable NFS?
  • Windows file sharing - what is CIFS?

Statistics

Some statistics related to our NAS

Task Source Size Time Rate
DVD to NAS Unicorn 4,23GB 15m48s avg 4,687kB/s, peak 7,290kB/s DVD to NAS Unicorn 4,32GB 16m03s avg 4,708kB/s, peak 7,701kB/s