What are you doing with your Qnap?

[shaymcc76]

i have twonky 6 for 40 people on the network, surveillance station for my garage, about 3 websites and transmission running constantly at full throttle. with a ts-410, i am surprised that i have no bottlenecks or problems. everything seems to be running great, i am very impressed with this unit! of course, it may be something to do with my new gigabit network setup and my new draytek modem router

one thing i am missing though.. subtitle streaming to xbox 360. alternatively, i hear that the ps3 server works with 360 as well, but of course not on ARM models. will there be a release for ARM?


cheers guys


Shay

[internaut19]

@shaymcc76 - No PS3 QPKG for the ARM platform due to the fact that the ARM platform doesn't have enough processing power to transcode video files. Have a look on the forum for Serviio or TVMOBILI QPKG, those are available for the ARM platform.

Cristian.

[luddy]

1) QBack to backup file changes on the fly from a few networked PCs in my home.
2) Stream media to my DLINK Boxee Box
3) Tried using it for Backup of LAN laptop with wireless connection but too slow
4) Biggest disappointment was Surveillance Station and my Cisco WVC210 which I returned and now QNAP finally supports it...a year later.
5) Additional storage for networked PCs

[mackconsult]

http://www.mackconsult.com/

Running latest version of wordpress.
FTP
telnet - to play with unix commands; and other maintenance activities.
File server - Samba
Streams pictures, music, & video to other devices around my house
Encryption of important data
Download station

and soon it will be providing video surveillance at my house

[forkless]

Primary use for me is file storage, web & mail services and media transcoding.

[Teks]

I use my TS-119P II for:
- Transmission BT
- Squeezebox Server
- Windows file server
- FTP

[fedoralinux]

ts-119P II
Transmission
Sabnzbd
Mailserver
Storage

[Crush]

TS-419PII
Main use is as a file store:
Stores machine backup files
Runs Mediaserver and Twonky for serving to mobile devices and EM7285.

That's about it. I won't compromise stabilty messing with lots of QPKGs

[wogstallion]

TS-410
Stores my multimedia files.
Store PC backups
Torrent downloader
Media server to my PS3

Nothing too fancy

[Harv]

I got thinking about this last night after enabling it as a Zarafa mail-server - exactly what it does. It's only after stumbling upon this topic that it made me write it all down!
I can't believe how much I have managed to squeeze out of a simple NAS device.

My QNAP is legitimately used as/for:

-Central storage (obviously!)
-DHCP server (via dnsmasq as I want the leases given linked to the DNS server below)
-DNS server (via dnsmasq too - so that i can browse the web-sites and pick up mail/browse calendar on wireless inside the flat and out without having to change where to point to)
-VPN server (thanks, qnap, for the latest firmware update!)
-FTP server (occasionally give access to my sister for files)
-Syslog server (consolidates logs from the QNAP, my firewall/router and my IP Camera)
-Xdove SMTP server (used to notify me of any syslog warnings or errors, outbound smtp for the Zarafa Mail server and used by the Camera to alert me to movement - attaching JPG stills)
-Zarafa Mail server (used for shared calendar access rather than emails. Both myself and the Mrs use z-push on our smart phones pointing at the QNAP to share a calendar.)
-Web server (3 web-sites - 'Gallery' for my photography hobby, 'Wordpress' for the Mrs's blogging, and an old HTML site i created years ago for posterity)
-MySql server (managed by MyPHPadmin and houses databases for Gallery, piwik, Zarafa and wordpress)
-Backup server (multiple backups to external hard drives for about a month's worth of retention)
-Remote replication server (used to mirror my data to my dads qnap on the other side of London, and his data to mine acting as an off-site backup for both of us)
-iTunes server (for the Mrs's iPhone/iTunes!)
-UPnP media server (for access by my Windows Mediacenter and Xbox)
-Photo gallery (specifically used for friends and family photos for publishing)
-Bit-torrent client (with the QGet installed on my PC as a front-end)
-Surveillance station (on constant record in case of a break-in!)
-WOL tool (I put my computer in standby to save energy. Can't send WOL over the internet, so I ssh into the QNAP and use the installed IPKG wol tool to wake up the computer before using RDP to connect to it. All of that can be done from my WP7 too).

I think I've got my moneys worth out of my TS-410.
Still looking for new ways of using this QNAP though!

[wogstallion]

Wow! Thats heaps for a TS 410. Whats the performance like regarding uPnP streaming? Do you stop any other services when streaming?

[Harv]

Wow! Thats heaps for a TS 410. Whats the performance like regarding uPnP streaming? Do you stop any other services when streaming?

I know what you mean, but performance hasn't been too much of an issue so far (amazing given it only has a 800MHz cpu).
Streaming media does not seem to affect it that much, so stopping services for that isn't neccessary. There are some things that would benefit from having the TS-419pII cpu and RAM though - namely AV and the web-service.
I used to run the built-in Clam AV service and had it scheduled for over-night but it started to take just too long - with it over-running to the next day for only 5-10GB worth of data. I didn't mind that too much - but whilst it was running, everything else was dog-slow (including any UPnP streaming), so had to kill it as a service.
The other thing that runs too slow for my liking are the PHP websites (Gallery and Photostation get hit the worst). I think this is purely down to the CPU speed though given that regardless of what the NAS is doing - it's never as fast as my old Win2K3 server running Gallery on apache. Not complaining though - I've always appreciated the fact that this is sold simply as a NAS (with bonus features!).

[Aussie]

What are you doing with your Qnap?

Currently treading lightly learning to use a few of its features hopefully without killing it. Although I haven't done much with it yet, I am surprised how quick the Marvell 2Ghz processor runs, I expected it to be more laggy than it is. The first disappointment I have is the lack of upgradable RAM in all these lower end units, however I did know this before buying my TS-419P II. One would think with the price of RAM these days, it wouldn't be much to have the upgrade option with all the units as standard, either that or a bare minimum of 1gig of RAM through the entire range, then have the upgrade option on the middle to higher end models for additional modules.

I have wanted a Qnap for a few years, but while looking into my options I discovered the Synology. I needed a decent NAS quickly, and since the model of the Synology I wanted was more than I could afford at the moment, I decided on the Qnap 419P II. I'm thinking I might save up and buy the Synology, then I will have the best of both worlds. I found like many others, I cant be bothered building another NAS myself, my FreeNAS box was beginning to break down too often.

[kessi]

http://www.mackconsult.com/

Running latest version of wordpress.
FTP
telnet - to play with unix commands; and other maintenance activities.
File server - Samba
Streams pictures, music, & video to other devices around my house
Encryption of important data
Download station

and soon it will be providing video surveillance at my house

I do nearly the same, but I don't use it often for wordpress

[ppb]

I use my TS-112 for
* local fileserver
* BT download
* backup for media (photo, home videos, ...)