I recently bought a 4tb Sharespace to replace a failing Buffalo Terastion… the main attraction was the built in Twonky media server and the extra storage.
First impressions were that it was much faster than the Tera, quieter and used less power than my old Terrastation (Raid 5 1.6tb) (I have it connected to a gigabit L2 switch)
After spending nearly two days copying all of my files over (including a large Mp3 collection), I rebooted the Sharespace and it decided to resync the Raid 5 volume… this took over 24hours… and to my horror when it was finished I couldnt access the shares I had created… and the data I had moved over…
After SSH’ing into the Sharespace I discovered that all of my data was still there and could see the volume had mounted ok etc… I could even access Twonky and play my MP3’s … I also could FTP onto the shares… but couldnt access it via any of my windows PC’s… after many hours messing about Googling others who had similar issues I still couldnt get it to work… Samba was working ok… but then I noticed that although in the Web Management the workgroup was set ok…Samba wasnt reporting the workgroup properly… removed the workgoup name in the web management and re-submitted and hey presto… started working again…
I have also moved the Twonky database etc as others have done… (due to the 35,000 mp3 files and 100000 jpegs )… it hadnt filled up the root file system… but didnt want to take the chance…
I have also disabled Mionet as it kept restarting , (Noticed it in my routers NAT table)… not sure how secure it is, but didnt like the multiple NAT connections it was making to Mionets servers…
Are there any other changes I should make to improve performance and resielance ?
Firmware is: 2.1.96 with MioNet 4.2.27
Best Regards
Craig
