QNAP DAS

[Jeff Gaines]

The QNAP DAS (new TLA for me) arrived an hour or so ago.

Unpacked carefully, read instructions etc.

Removed drives one by one from the current cage and transferred to DAS,
carefully removing the minuscule silver screws from the old cages and
replacing with the minuscule black screws that came with the new carriers.

Followed all the instructions, connected it to the desktop, pressed the
"On" button on the desktop, nothing, sweet FA, my new build was dead.

Went through the "what did I forget" routine and tried again, once again
zilch.

Fired up the Z170K, no problems except it's lost one of the monitors, OK
no probs I can live with one for now.

Plugged in the DAS, "ping" up pops File Manager, "I've found a new drive,
what do I do?", got a bit boring after the third time but heigh ho.

Copied my news reader (XanaNews) over from my new DAS (it was updated last
night while the drive was in its old home), made sure it worked, fine just
going to have to ignore this morning's posts.

Decided I'd come and sit in the lounge with a cup of tea and run it
remotely while I decide on a diagnostic process.

Pressed the button on the new build before I left the room and it bursts
into life like it's never been away.

My dad taught me a lot of swear words while he was alive, it wasn't nearly
enough though.

Anyway before I push it to one side any thoughts? The only thing I can
thing of is that one of the capacitors in the PSU may be on its way out
and needed to charge a bit? Otherwise zilch.

Anway I'm in business, will check why I only have one monitor on the Z170K
tomorrow.

[SH]

Post by Jeff Gaines
The QNAP DAS (new TLA for me) arrived an hour or so ago.
Unpacked carefully, read instructions etc.
Removed drives one by one from the current cage and transferred to DAS,
carefully removing the minuscule silver screws from the old cages and
replacing with the minuscule black screws that came with the new carriers.
Followed all the instructions, connected it to the desktop, pressed the
"On" button on the desktop, nothing, sweet FA, my new build was dead.
Went through the "what did I forget" routine and tried again, once again
zilch.
Fired up the Z170K, no problems except it's lost one of the monitors, OK
no probs I can live with one for now.
Plugged in the DAS, "ping" up pops File Manager, "I've found a new
drive, what do I do?", got a bit boring after the third time but heigh ho.
Copied my news reader (XanaNews) over from my new DAS (it was updated
last night while the drive was in its old home), made sure it worked,
fine just going to have to ignore this morning's posts.
Decided I'd come and sit in the lounge with a cup of tea and run it
remotely while I decide on a diagnostic process.
Pressed the button on the new build before I left the room and it bursts
into life like it's never been away.
My dad taught me a lot of swear words while he was alive, it wasn't
nearly enough though.
Anyway before I push it to one side any thoughts? The only thing I can
thing of is that one of the capacitors in the PSU may be on its way out
and needed to charge a bit? Otherwise zilch.
Anway I'm in business, will check why I only have one monitor on the
Z170K tomorrow.

What were the drives previously in?

I am assuming the DAS was attached to a Windows box which means this
will support drives formatted in FAT, FAT32, NTFS and possibly exFAT too.

If the drives have come from a NAS, many of these run on Linux so
chances are the drives are formatted to EXT4, BTRFS or REISER.

Have a look in Disc management in Windows, it will see the drives but
will be marked as unknown or unformatted......

if there is NO data you plan to keep off the drives, simply go and
format them..... they will then become FAT, FAT32, NTFS or exFAT but be
prepared to find they may not be accesible to non-windows boxes....

S.

[Jeff Gaines]

Post by SH
What were the drives previously in?
I am assuming the DAS was attached to a Windows box which means this will
support drives formatted in FAT, FAT32, NTFS and possibly exFAT too.
If the drives have come from a NAS, many of these run on Linux so chances
are the drives are formatted to EXT4, BTRFS or REISER.
Have a look in Disc management in Windows, it will see the drives but will
be marked as unknown or unformatted......
if there is NO data you plan to keep off the drives, simply go and format
them..... they will then become FAT, FAT32, NTFS or exFAT but be prepared
to find they may not be accesible to non-windows boxes....
S.

Thanks SH.

It was my new build PC that wouldn't come on I'm afraid, once it did fire
up it was fine, I'm running it via RDP to do this.

The QNAP DAS has been as good as gold - the drives in it came from inside
the new build PC and even show up in the same order which means I don't
have to re-write my backup script. All of my drives are formatted exFAT
(please don't tell Jaimie) because I got sick of all the permissions
issues when I move them around.

[SH]

Post by Jeff Gaines

Post by SH
What were the drives previously in?
I am assuming the DAS was attached to a Windows box which means this
will support drives formatted in FAT, FAT32, NTFS and possibly exFAT too.
If the drives have come from a NAS, many of these run on Linux so
chances are the drives are formatted to EXT4, BTRFS or REISER.
Have a look in Disc management in Windows, it will see the drives but
will be marked as unknown or unformatted......
if there is NO data you plan to keep off the drives, simply go and
format them..... they will then become FAT, FAT32, NTFS or exFAT but
be prepared to find they may not be accesible to non-windows boxes....
S.

Thanks SH.
It was my new build PC that wouldn't come on I'm afraid, once it did
fire up it was fine, I'm running it via RDP to do this.
The QNAP DAS has been as good as gold - the drives in it came from
inside the new build PC and even show up in the same order which means I
don't have to re-write my backup script. All of my drives are formatted
exFAT (please don't tell Jaimie) because I got sick of all the
permissions issues when I move them around.

thats helpful them coming up with the same drive letters as on the
previous home, I find this is not always consistent over USB and also if
you plug in two USB drives that has the same drive letter on two
previous different machines....

Its easy enough to change a drive letter to save you editing your nackup
scripts.