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ReadyNAS with Canon ZoomBrowser EX
I would say readyNAS performed quite well, as a photography enthusiast I work with many DSLR cameras such as the Canon 350D, 30D, 1Ds and sometimes Nikon D70. For nearly everything I take i take in RAW, After just one year i filled my enough to want a NAS. I got the ReadyNAS NV as the size, functions was nice even with the a price tag above buffalo's cheap terrastation. Having over 60GB of RAW photos just after one year (more as time goes on, and when i bother to scan my MANY rolls of film) i needed a NAS that was flexible and compatible enough to work with software such as Canon ZoomBrowser EX, Picasa dosnt work with RAW nicely.
It turns out readyNAS does its Job, I mapped the share as a network drive and Zoombrowser recognizes it nicely. The slightly bad point is my Wireless Router dosnt support Gigabit lan (my PC does, and ready nas does but my PC is in a different room to my Router and NAS. what a pain), other then that its smooth sailing. Loading time is still on the slow side (i cant blame that since im the one using Megabit lan). If im sorting or editing 8-11 megapixel RAW's i still copy them on my harddrive before hand and not edit them straight off the readyNAS.
The only REAL problem i have is the basic FTP and HTTP/S functions, and when i mean basic it really is Basic. Having done loads of event photography for various organizations loads of people regularly ask for photos, I would like to be able to set permissions and users/groups to just be able to "access" a certain sub-folder in the share with the ability to set attributes as "read-only/read and write/etc". In a way i could do that to a certain extend with the ReadyNAS nv but its not ideal and at most times quite a pain. The thing i do now is i have Bulletproof FTP server running handling all my FTP user/group allocations and with the "photos" Share mapped as a network drive it works just like any other directory. But the downside with that is my computer has to be on, i have thought of converting a old scrap pc somewhere into running ubuntu server, or depending on how scrappy a lighter version of linux..but ultimately it would be still a waste of power resources.
The new "Power Management" options are sweet but that PSU fan still winds me up, makes me want to get a silence kit. Obviously 1TB is enough storage for any photographer out there, but it does fill up pretty fast with all my DVD (vob) rips and CD (wave) rips. For a photographer, or MOST people the photos are more important then some dvd you brought in the store the other day so burning of DVD's is still just important so far. And i thought my NAS would make Burning another DVD obsolete.
One small request at the end, why not try make a ReadyNAS with the cheaper 3.5" HDDs? I would definitely go for a cheaper but slightly larger thing :P. I tend to turn my NAS off when i don't use it since the idle mode isnt exactly the best, i would like a "standby" mode as well where it turns off everything but the ram much like how windows does standby and where this "standby" mode could be interrupted as soon as it detects a incoming packet or TCP request much like How Wake-On-Lan works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN.
But overall the readynas is a sweet product, you made me happy. I'll look forward to your next products.
Anyone think the option of being able to connect the readynas to a pc or laptop by a usb 2 or firewire so it acts like a BIG external hard disk a nice option as well?
It turns out readyNAS does its Job, I mapped the share as a network drive and Zoombrowser recognizes it nicely. The slightly bad point is my Wireless Router dosnt support Gigabit lan (my PC does, and ready nas does but my PC is in a different room to my Router and NAS. what a pain), other then that its smooth sailing. Loading time is still on the slow side (i cant blame that since im the one using Megabit lan). If im sorting or editing 8-11 megapixel RAW's i still copy them on my harddrive before hand and not edit them straight off the readyNAS.
The only REAL problem i have is the basic FTP and HTTP/S functions, and when i mean basic it really is Basic. Having done loads of event photography for various organizations loads of people regularly ask for photos, I would like to be able to set permissions and users/groups to just be able to "access" a certain sub-folder in the share with the ability to set attributes as "read-only/read and write/etc". In a way i could do that to a certain extend with the ReadyNAS nv but its not ideal and at most times quite a pain. The thing i do now is i have Bulletproof FTP server running handling all my FTP user/group allocations and with the "photos" Share mapped as a network drive it works just like any other directory. But the downside with that is my computer has to be on, i have thought of converting a old scrap pc somewhere into running ubuntu server, or depending on how scrappy a lighter version of linux..but ultimately it would be still a waste of power resources.
The new "Power Management" options are sweet but that PSU fan still winds me up, makes me want to get a silence kit. Obviously 1TB is enough storage for any photographer out there, but it does fill up pretty fast with all my DVD (vob) rips and CD (wave) rips. For a photographer, or MOST people the photos are more important then some dvd you brought in the store the other day so burning of DVD's is still just important so far. And i thought my NAS would make Burning another DVD obsolete.
One small request at the end, why not try make a ReadyNAS with the cheaper 3.5" HDDs? I would definitely go for a cheaper but slightly larger thing :P. I tend to turn my NAS off when i don't use it since the idle mode isnt exactly the best, i would like a "standby" mode as well where it turns off everything but the ram much like how windows does standby and where this "standby" mode could be interrupted as soon as it detects a incoming packet or TCP request much like How Wake-On-Lan works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN.
But overall the readynas is a sweet product, you made me happy. I'll look forward to your next products.
Anyone think the option of being able to connect the readynas to a pc or laptop by a usb 2 or firewire so it acts like a BIG external hard disk a nice option as well?
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- "Obviously 1TB is enough storage for any photographer out there"
Nope, not me.
My first 2TB NAS covers 1995-2007, the second will perhaps manage 2008-2009.
Over a race weekend I may take 1500 shots, more when working accredited.
At an F1 test session, maybe a week out in Jerez or Barcelona, there'll be more.
I've found that Picasa2 handles Canon RAW files for display and does it very quickly. Far quicker than Zoombrowser or even Lightroom.
But for conversion and first pass editing I'm using Lightroom.
And of course the management and keywording I leave to Lightroom.
ReadyNAS does the job of storing the photos well. Though it's not proof against an idiot user pressing the delete button !
My big problem is how to back up two 2TB NAS (and a third on the way) to prevent against that idiot user ... - Agree mapping the drive works...but all the pictures are "protected"...i.e. read-only...so you can't organize pictures on the network drive or move files to the share etc.
I checked the priviledges and I think I'm all OK at the file system level...
Using Zoombrowser 5.7.0.74 on Windows XP SP2
Any idea why Zoombrowser won't allow me to make changes to pictures on the network share and any idea what I can do about it?
Thanks - Hello,
ReadyNASUser wrote: Any idea why Zoombrowser won't allow me to make changes to pictures on the network share and any idea what I can do about it?
Do You know answer for yours question? After I have all picture from my USB-Disk to NAS copied, i have this problem, too :-( Kamcio wrote: Hello, ReadyNASUser wrote: Any idea why Zoombrowser won't allow me to make changes to pictures on the network share and any idea what I can do about it?
Do You know answer for yours question? After I have all picture from my USB-Disk to NAS copied, i have this problem, too :-(
Nope...still no solution... I'm fairly certain its zoombrowser...so I can only hope Cannon fixes it in a later release.- Ok, thank You.
now I think this is ZoomBrowser, too. It has general problems with the files in network. - Try this with version 6.1.1.21 (free upgrade):
Close ZoombrowserEx if running.
Make a backup of zblocalvolumedevice.dll in the ZoomBrowser Ex\Program folder.
Then open zblocalvolumedevice.dll with a hex editor (for example VXI32).
Search for the sequence 83 CO FE 83 F8 01 and in each case replace the final 01 with 03.
Save the change, restart ZoomBrowserEx, see if network drive magically no longer protected. - Hello Mizts,
Thank You for Your answer and that You have so exact showed how I should do this!
I have found only sequence with C0 (zero), with CO (O how other) wasn't any sequence.
OK, now I have any key more, but I still can't use, for example, quality filter. mizts wrote: Try this [snip] see if network drive magically no longer protected.
Yes it does...fantastic....
I would be fascinated to know how on earth you figured this out...what is your secret?
Thanks again...- I did it. You have to search for 83 C0 FE 83 F8 01. There is a typo in the advice above. It's C-Zero, not C-Oh.
I used XVI32.exe. It takes 2 minutes, and use the Find feature, paste in 83 C0 FE 83 F8 01. It appears twice. Just click or double-click on 01, and type Zero-Three with your keyboard. Then save the file.
Now I can browse network shares easy enough. But what I like is acquiring images, and for that, I am supposed to use the sub-module 'CameraWindow' software, which is included with ZoomBrowser EX, and called up when clicking 'Acquire & Camera Settings'.
The problem for me is CameraWindow does not see my network shares. This is not a problem with 'read-only', the network shares simply don't appear - even if, the network shares are attached network drive letters. What DLL do I have to edit to fix this problem?
Regards. - I've got 6.2.0.29 running and tried this, but no luck. Didn't seem to cause a crash or anything (yet), but still not seeing the LAN.
Any help would be appreciated!
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