BrickfulIan

Hey LinusForumTips! I'm looking for some help, setting up my Synology DS1817+ NAS box for FTP access. I'm based in LA (where the NAS is located), but I'm currently in Boston on a job (I'm a filmmaker). I want to be able to send footage back to the office in Los Angeles for processing. Tried using Google Drive but it didn't like doing hundreds of gigs a day. And S3 is cost prohibitive for the amount of video I'm sending. I have used the EZ-Internet application built into the Synology Disk Station Manager to port forward. I have IP and user accounts set up. However, I can't figure out how to connect to the server using Cyberduck. I've used Cyberduck before to upload to Amazon S3 buckets, but want to send files directly to the NAS box this time. Can someone provide some advice for connecting to my Synology box with Cyberduck over FTP for large file transfers? Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

Definitely a bit pricey, but would be a great tool for gaming, movies, and video editing in my small apartment. Not too much space for big TV sets and desks for LAN parties in an apartment!

I would love to utilize a Kova unit for gaming, but most importantly the feature film and documentary projects I am working on at the moment. Having a more comfortable mouse would definitely be helpful when editing for hundred and maybe thousands of hours!

Is there a particular NAS brand you would recommend? At my current technical knowledge level I'm not sure I want to be experimenting by building a NAS I would use for my work. Thanks for replying so quickly! Ian

Hey Forum! I am considering adding a Silverstone FS305 (5x3.5" Linus used in NAS/gamingpc build) to my workstation with a bunch of WD Blacks for video editing. I want to have four of the drives in either a RAID 5 or a RAID 6 setup and the fifth drive as a hot swappable drive for archiving projects to 3.5" HDDs. Should I be using a pci-e RAID Controller for this type of setup? Recommendations on RAID Controllers? Or is software raid good enough? System specifications at the bottom of the post. Many Thanks, Ian BrickfulIan System specifications MB: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad Core Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 1TB Seagate ST4000VN000 4TB WD Black 4TB RAM: 4x8GB G.Skill Ares Series DDR3-1600 Memory GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX770 2GB Sound: Asus Xonar DSX 24-bit 192 KHz Case: Raidmax Vampire ATX Full Tower Wireless: Intel 9260HMWDTX1 802.11ac OS: Windows 7 Ultimate, though considering upgrading to Windows 10