SOHO NAS

Today the mailman brought me the NAS device I recently ordered. It is a nice and shiny Synology DS-101J with a 320GB disk:

The device will replace the recently broken WinXP Desktop machine for all its network related storage and UPNP serving. Next to this we’ll use the device for making backups of my wife’s laptop; it comes with an agent which can be installed on machines to periodically backup them.

Installation using of the management tools on OSX was a bit bumpy (the installer requested me to select ‘a path’… after trying a couple of times I discovered it wanted to know the path to a .pat file on the root of the CD) but the tools work quite well.

So, of to moving all media from my laptops to this device!

—– UPDATE ——
I managed to start the telnet deamon and login to the device. It looks a nice linux setup:

DP-NAS> uname -a
Linux DP-NAS 2.4.22-uc0 #385 Sat Sep 23 01:01:48 CST 2006 armv5b unknown

Amongst the pre-installed software are:

• apache (with php)
• rtorrent
• rsync (!!!)
• ssh
• imagemagick (convert)
• postgres
• mysql

And much more… kewl!