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Will the Seagate 8tb HDD work in a NAS serving media? I am contemplating to use this drive for my next upgrade, any comments?

I have recently experienced multiple freezes while watching a movie on my NAS while accessing it via my popcorn hour via SMB, I have tried accessing the NAS (24 HDD's) via MY WINDOWS 7 PC and Nappit and found that my NAS was loosing the network connection. I have managed to open Nappit today...

I bought the Dell venue 11 pro Atom version and I have received it today, I have realised that Dell sent me the wrong Windows 8.1 version that I have ordered, my order was for Windows 8.1 pro and I have received 8.1. The tablet has got 2gb of ram and 64gb ssd with 3G, should I ask for a...

My son's M11X R2 suddenrly stopped working, unfortunately it's out of warranty 2.5 years old, Dell recken I need a new mobo @ £578.00 plus fitting it they're doing the job, no chnace I'm paying that. This is the least lasting pc or laptop I have ever had and for the cost I thought should have...

Is anyone using the LSI SAS3442ER with 3TB drives? does the LSI SAS3442ER need a firmware update to work the the 3TB. Thank you for all your help.

I wonder if I could make this work: http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-rsc-r2ut-2e8r~7SUP91Q6.htm in this mobo: http://uk.asus.com/Search/?SearchKey=M4A78LT-M%20LE So that I can use the LSI Controller with the HP SAS Expander. Appreciated.:)

I am after some advice, I have just purchased an 405160-B21 HP P400 SAS CONTROLLER 256MB CACHE for a NAS backup server to use with WHS. The hardware that I am putting together is as follows: ASUS M4A78LT-M LE AMD 760G Socket AM3 Motherboard Kingston 2GB (2x1GB) DDR3 1333MHz i5 Memory Kit...

Can anyone please suggest a backup solution for a NAS, there is about 5.5TB of multimedia files on the server and since loosing about 4TB of multimedia files around 3 month or so ago, Ii have been thinking of backing up the NAS ever since. I have looked at Macrium Reflect but I am not sure at...

I am a sucker for punishment...after loosing all my data using Freenas, I have installed Nexenta Core and this was working great till: In my eadavour to get WOL (wake on lan) working with my system, I ended up giving up because of my graphics card not supporting suspend and resume correctly...

Hi all, I wonder if anyone has seen a similar problem to what I am experiencing, I have recently installed Nexenta 134b on my NAS server, I have also been playing trying to get WOL to work but: I am having to switch the power supply switch off then on before I can turn on the NAS via the...

I have been trying to find a way to anable wol in Nexenta whithout success, just need to change the ethernet card settings to allow wake on lan. Does anyone know if this is supported, I would appreciate your guidance if you are aware how this is done. Many thanks.

Hi All, I wonder if anyone has encountered this issue with the HP Procurve 1810 8G managed Switch, I have got my NAS connected to the switch, the NAS Mobo is configured for WOL, WOL does not work but the switch turn the NAS on every 10 mns or so. I have tried all maners to keep the NAS...

Hi Guys, I hope you can help, I have just set up my NAS with Nexenta3 RC1 I was using before FreeNAS, what do I need to do to use the new ZFS (Nexenta) instead of the old ZFS (FreeNAS). I don't have anything on the HDD's yet so I don't mind reformatting or destrying the pools, incidently...

I hope someone can help me recover my data on FreeNAS, I am very scared in loosing 3+tb worth of data, this is set up: FreeNAS 0.7.4919 AMD64 full install Abit AN8 SLI motherboard AMD Opteron 165 dual core processor 2gb DDR2 Ram HP SC44GE SAS Controller PCI Graphics I had 4 x 1.5tb...

Hi All, Again I am in need of some help :confused::(, I have a home built NAS running FreeNAS 0.7 ZFS in Raiz and wondered whether I should maybe go with another NAS os? The is 4 x 1.5tb samsung HDD's F2 installed and I have got about 1.3tb left so need more space pretty soon, in order for...

I wonder if anyone can shed some light on this for me: I have got a NAS drive running FreeNAS 0.7 for media storage, my main PC is running Window 7, I have also got a Popcorn hour C-200 and up until 2 days ago all was good. I was able to access my NAS from Windows (new install) without...

Appreciate any help in making a decision: I have purchased 2 x HP SC44Ge SAS PCIE Host Bust Adapters 416096-B21, apparently this is a rebadged LSI SAS3442E-R adapter. I have also purchased a couple of cables SSF8484 to 4 x Sata, wonder if they're the right ones as I have since heard mentioned...

I have just had a 250gb P120S HDD die on me and I am trying to access the Samsung warranty checker online to see whether the drive is still under warraty (I beleive it's three years). I am based in the uk, so I am using the samsung uk site and mostly can't access it and when I do the checker...

Hi all, I am really confused, I have nearly bought 4 x 1.5tb Western Digital drives the WD15EADS and just before I clicked buy I made the mistake (or is it) to read a reply on this topic on another forum advising me to rethink re: issue with WD drives parking and raid usage :confused:. So...

Hey guys. I can't decide between these two coolers (Noctua NH-C12P or NH-U9B SE2), I have a small case (Arctic Silentium T2) only 180mm wide, intending to use with Gigabyte EX58-UD3R and an Intel i7 920, hopefully overclocking. The NH-U9B SE2 comes with two 92mm fans and the NH-C12P come...

Hi all, I hope someone can direct me towards the right path, I have an Abit AN8 SLI and I am going to use it to build a NAS drive to stream HD content to my main TV. I am going to start with the onboard 4 sata's available then get a couple 8 X sata controllers and would like to know how to...

Hi Everyone, first post, Desperately needing guidance on which way to go, I am intending to build a NAS machine which will be used primarily for streaming HD content via a Popcorn hour C200. The NAS will be hard wired via cat 5e to the media player and hopefully gigabit streaming through a...