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Media folder too large.?
I just bought a readynas 102.. setting up has been painfully slow all round.. eventually I have used the backup option to copy movies from my external hard drive to the Nas in a folder called movies.
From time to time I would log in and check how many movies had transferred across but now it just seems to hang or time out when I try and access the movie folder. I wonder if it times out before reading the 2000 movie folders? I've also only been getting less than 1mb transfer speeds.. and plex is not available on the apps page.. not wining
From time to time I would log in and check how many movies had transferred across but now it just seems to hang or time out when I try and access the movie folder. I wonder if it times out before reading the 2000 movie folders? I've also only been getting less than 1mb transfer speeds.. and plex is not available on the apps page.. not wining
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Is the USB drive connected to the NAS? If so, is it connected to the front or the back? Is it USB 2.0 or USB 3.0?
Is the RAID array still syncing?
On plex, the plex team now distributes plex directly. You download it from plex.tv (select the arm version) and upload it on the apps page of the web ui. The install takes a while (even on the RN202) and there are dependencies in the install that require the NAS to connect to the internet.
FWIW RN102 transfer speeds should be in the 50-70 MB/sec range.
- It's a USB 3 connected to the front. My main issue at the moment is when I click on the movie folder to view the movie files on the Nas storage it just hangs with the little circle showing that it's loading then it just stops and nothings shows.. so I click on the movie folder gain and the same thing happens. I have raid set to 0 so I have more space.. all new hard drives etc
Jacobnz wrote:
It's a USB 3 connected to the front.That's a USB 2 port, so it will be a lot slower than using the rear ports.
Jacobnz wrote:
I have raid set to 0 so I have more space.. all new hard drives etcIf you have one volume spanning both drives, then RAID-0 is very fragile. If either drive fails, everything is lost. So backups are particularly important if you use that mode. FWIW, one volume for each drive is safer, though you do need to manually balance the storage (keeping adequate free space on both volumes).
What drive model are you using?
Jacobnz wrote:
My main issue at the moment is when I click on the movie folder to view the movie files on the Nas storage it just hangs with the little circle showing that it's loading then it just stops and nothings shows.Of course it shouldn't be doing that. Are you looking via the web ui, or windows explorer?
- I have been using Google Chrome, the movie files have just become visible so I assume perhaps it just couldn't access the file during the backup process.
Is there a way to create individual files for each hard drive in a raid 0 setup or would I need to format and start again?
Also while I have your input I am quite new to streaming and networking I will be using a raspberry pi 3 for streaming he movies from the Nas us smb the fastest connection method?What drive models?
Jacobnz wrote:
I have been using Google Chrome, the movie files have just become visible so I assume perhaps it just couldn't access the file during the backup process.Try accessing with file explorer
Jacobnz wrote:
Is there a way to create individual files for each hard drive in a raid 0 setup or would I need to format and start again?You'd need to start again - destroying the existing volume, create two new ones, then recreating your shares and copying your data.
You should have backups with any RAID format though.
Jacobnz wrote:
Also while I have your input I am quite new to streaming and networking I will be using a raspberry pi 3 for streaming he movies from the Nas us smb the fastest connection method?NFS could could be faster with the Raspberry pi, but SMB should be fast enough. Even full BluRay only requires about 6-7 megabytes per second, and a typical MKV requires much less. There's no need for plex if you are using SMB - plex and ReadyDLNA use their own connection methods.
I just tried connecting my usb3 external hard drive to the rear of the nas unit as you said to move files faster, but it didnt show up so i tried restarting the nas, it took a while to load and then said i have no volumes setup... have i lost everthing?
I have retarted the nas and disconnected the usb drive, it now says the readynas admin page is offline?
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