NASLite Network Attached Storage

Is there a way to copy data directly between drives on the nas? Im currently doing it on my xp box but gonna take a while to copy 200gb @ 8Meg/sec

That is the only way other than booting a live CD of a linux distro like Knoppix and using it to do the copy. You will have to SU and set the drives as writable to do the copy. The drives are mounted read only initialy.

Mike

Browse to my network places and drill down to the NAS box and select 'shares'. Copy between the drives here and it doesn't come back over the network at all. Just copies between the NL drives - much much faster!

Didn't know about that. Are you sure? I will have to give that a try.

Mike

Yes I am sure, just did it! If you copy from a mapped network drive OR one of the drives on the NL box to another, all traffic will pass from the NL box to your PC and back again. I asked this question a while ago and this was the answer I got. Copy between the SHARES and it will remain within the NL box. I'm assumimg you have XP on your PC? Open explorer and go to My Network Places and go down until you get to the NL box itself shown as Network Storage on mine. You will see all the disks listed and also a folder marked Shares. go into this folder and do the copying WITHIN this folder between the NL disks.

Works and works well. When you move or copy within a share, the server handles the transfer locally. That’s the equivalent of a local file manager with all the GUI bang of Windows.

WELL S#!T, I been doing it the hard way once in a while.

Thanks for the info, I stand corrected and am VERY happy to have been wrong this time.

Mike

And why shows the Taskmanger a network-load form about 50% ??

Here's to "Learning something new everyday....."

Tried this without success!

Opened "My Network Places" then "Microsoft Windows Network".
The NASlite server was there and under it I had 4 disk shares, Disk-0 to Disk-3.

I dragged and dropped a file from one disk to another but it went through the network.

Am I doing something wrong.....?

Just tried and got the same result as well, what did we do wrong?

Mike

Someone correct me if I'm wrong ...

Moves within the same share (for example from one folder to another on the same shared volume) do not result in data crossing the network, but copies and moves from one share to another (for example Disk-0 to Disk-3), always cross the network.

I haven't tried it with NASLite, but that is standard Windows Explorer behaviour and as far as I know, Explorer neither knows nor cares what the host at the other end of the network is.

NASLite-2 exports a share called “Shares”. Map that on your windows client. Within it, you’ll see all drives as folders. Moving and copying between those will not result in network traffic. The rule is within a share and not between shares.

The significance of the “Shares” share is that with remotely hosted storage, transfers of files between volumes (remote or local) can be done via the client GUI without content streaming through the client.

It’s a powerful feature and should be fully exploited.

Thanks Tony.
That makes it a bit clearer.

Hi:

Ok ... this great "new" feature confused me for a while ... because it did not seem to work for me at first ... now with a little experimenting under my belt, I have the following question(s).

Please clarify what is meant by (Tony wrote:) "Moving and copying between those will not result in network traffic. The rule is within a share and not between shares. ". What does "those" mean ? And if you have only one NASLite box, should you have only one "share" (but with 1 or more drives) ?

Are you saying a] copying a file between two different NASLite HDDs ( both located under "\\NAS\Shares" ), or b] copying a file between different folders on the SAME harddisk, will NOT result in network traffic ?

What happens for me (650MB file) under a] is NO network traffic, but my music being streamed from one of the three NAS HDDs at the same time takes a performance hit by pausing. Under b] I get the normal Network Traffic and client CPU use.

Thanks in advance for clarifying.
Georg