Network Attached Storage 1

I got my NAS a couple weeks ago, and it's nice having it, now that have a redundant copy of my files in a centralized location.

It was a roller-coaster learning it though... After the initial setup, I did the quick setup which I couldn't figure out how to set up RAID1 and it ended up setting it up with the "Synology Hybrid RAID" whatever that is. After that I figured it out and deleted the hybrid RAID and set up RAID 1 like I wanted. It had to do some sort of disk/parity check even though it was RAID1... took a few hours to complete, but luckily, I was setting it up before work, so I just let it do it's thing while I went to work.

I attempted to fiddle with the settings to try to make it accessible over the internet, but to no luck. I'm not horribly concerned about it, since I mainly want to access it via LAN.

I had also set up the blocking feature, where I thought would just block IPs with bad logins.... but it turns out that it also blocks a login with a different IP/OS combo... In other words, the first instance I was making users for each of the computers (since you can't log "user a" on multiple computers at the same time), from Mei-chan. After making the first one, I got booted out and couldn't log back in as the admin... So I had to boot Melty back on to get into it and make a secondary admin account and unblock Mei-chan. Second time it happened, I was in openSUSE with Melty, and was trying to access the files and it locked me out, both admin accounts. Rebooting to windows didn't help, so I had to boot up Mei-chan and clear out the block and turn the feature off. If it had worked like I wanted, it would've been nice, but it was more of a hassle than it was worth. (By the way, I had it set to 1 login attempt within a 10 hour period with a 1 day lockout)

The on/off schedule is nice as well, I set it to be off while I'm at work, since there's no point for me to have it on when I'm not accessing it.