Any idea when OCUK will be getting this new IcyBox NAS?

Rroff said:
Yeah I think your missing something...

Does anyone know what the transfer rates are like on these? I have a couple of NAS boxes, one of them an icybox but different model to this, and transfer rates are poor - 25-35Mbit/s, everything else on my LAN manages in excess of 90Mbit/s.
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Im maxing at 16MB/s to the NAS, so if my maths are correct, thats 128Mbit/s. On a gigabit network.
 
Am I right in thinking these only support users/groups/permissions on ext3 file system? Im not too worried on using it but just wondered.

I take it that by using this on a 10/100 network I wont miss too much performance over gigabit? Not worried really as once the data is on the NAS it wouldnt be too heavily used.

Anyone using an external drive connected to this as extra space? Am wondering if it can be configured to backup select files on the NAS automatically or not.

Going to get this soon, just contemplating about disks needed, the prices of the 750gb drives are nearly double the 500gb ones...
 
Currently having issues with a few things...

a) slow speeds over FTP, downloading remotely at 5ks.
b) torrent settings don't remain as you set them in the rtorrent config file.
c) another I can't think of at this moment.
 
Another issue...

Outlook .pst files hosted on the samba share corrupt almost immediatley.

I know Microsoft does not recommend accessing .pst files over a network share but it used to work ok with my old NT4 server.

Looks like a number of NAS devices have the same problem, google on NSLU2 ?

thanks,
Em Kay
 
Sorted the external access speed, it was the MTU size that needed changing...

Anybody had success with torrents in general? I can't seem to get anything downloading at more than about 1k :p
 
BruceLee said:
Opened ports and set up forwarding on your router?
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Yeah, for the ports I set myself. Default BT ports are more likely to be throttled.

I'm now having an attempt with userscript, made by someone on the nas-4220 forums. It allows you to write your own config files as it copies them when the NAS boots, overwriting the default ones that get written first. Got slightly better speeds, but there's no control over most of the torrent features. Hope they open it up a bit slightly in the next firmware release.
 
Has anyone tried installing the webserver for the 4220 ?

I'm torn between this and the QNAP TS-209, the Icy Box obviously wins by a mile on price even taking into account having to buy a twonky licence, but a lack of english support information for the Icy Box + the webserver on the 209 has me wondering wether to go for that.
 
A few questions - how is the torrent client? Good speeds? Is the torrent client easy to turn off? (like when you want to do some gaming)

Silly question - you plug this NAS box into your wireless router and you can access the router wirelessly? Just want to confirm that :p
 
Vanilla said:
A few questions - how is the torrent client? Good speeds? Is the torrent client easy to turn off? (like when you want to do some gaming)
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I'd have to say not very good. You can stop and start torrents easily, but there's issues with the config files resetting themselves on the standard firmware, so you have to use an initscript to copy your own settings across every time it boots. Even to change things like ports. Talks of an improvement when the new firmware gets released though.

Vanilla said:
Silly question - you plug this NAS box into your wireless router and you can access the router wirelessly? Just want to confirm that :p
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Yeah, it has an IP that you can access from any device in your workgroup.
 
gumbald said:
I'd have to say not very good. You can stop and start torrents easily, but there's issues with the config files resetting themselves on the standard firmware, so you have to use an initscript to copy your own settings across every time it boots. Even to change things like ports. Talks of an improvement when the new firmware gets released though.
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Is there an example of how bit torrent clients work on these things?

At the moment I use uTorrent. Will I still be able to use that or will I have to bow to some kind of other software?

General question: WHich is the best box for torrents? I big part of me buying one of these is not having to keep my PC on - Quad core, big gfx, 9 HD's lept powered is costing a lot!
 
GOt mine up and running. Quite like the torrents, only complaint is it dosn't show the amount you've uploaded :(

Also - can you change where it saves torrents?

Right now it goes to public/btdownload but I have a feeling that directory...is public is it not?
 
You can change the permissions of the public directory in share management like any other. But no, there isn't any control about where it saves them at the moment, I don't think overriding the settings can yet do that.
 
Hi Folks,
I wonder if you guys who got one of these already could answer a question or two for me.

How fast is it sharing across a network?
( the reason I ask is that I use a nslu2 with a hub and 4 drives on it - its fine until I try and play a 8.5Gig mkv blu-ray rip across the network)

The usb ports with hard drives attached , whats the read speed from them like?
( would they be fast enough for Hi-Def mkv playback )

Can you use an external usb hub to increase the amount of usb ports ?

Hopefully someone can help me out :-)
 
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