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Your problem is not that complicated but i think you left few key details out, which previous post highilghts. If you have a public IP then you will need to port forward to your server (machine's IP), which then internally be mapped to VM's port. This way exposes your machine to public (internet), to secure it you can use VPN. In my opinion exposing your network to internet is just an invitation to problems. If you dont have a Public IP or are behind carrier grade NAT (CGNAT) then this becomes more difficult to do without using other advanced ways. I am also behind CGNAT and currently use tunnels to host internal apps to public. Cloudflare has a an excellent free tunnel implementation called Argo Tunnels. You can give it a go if you have a domain parked with them.

my laptop (Ubuntu server) is of following config: ACER ASPIRE 5740 G laptop: (external link) Intel Core i5-430M 2.26 GHz @ 2.53 GHz 4 GB Ram DDR3 (i think 533MHZ) i see where you are going with CPU bottlenecking however any CPU with more than 1 GHZ speed should be capable of handling gigbits speed. We are talking approx 100MB/s speed for network transfer. it looks the buck stops at the NAS214. i will get another laptop with gigabit card to do some testing and will report further. Thanks all

Ok valid point, i shall do a drive speed test to see if they can perform at a certain expected level. Any suggestion how should i check data transfer within NAS, without moving it files to another system. Sorry bit newbie here. EDIT: this NAS is configured to run as JBOD and not RAID as the speed was a concern more than safety of data

Firstly, thank you all for the response. i was travelling and could not get back to this post sooner. Let me reply to all the post in sequence. Definitely LAG is something that i will take a look at, i think i just need to bridge both ETH0 and ETH1 connections post IP assignment. However this NAS version does not show up the graph as your does, however i am disappointed throughly on this NAS214, if it can provide write speed of at least 100MB/s that it not useable as usb 3.0.....

Thanks mate for the detailed explanation. However i highly doubt that CPU bottleneck could be the issue, refer to spec sheet. It can stream 1080p stream real time with transcoding and mentions "Maximize simultaneous throughput with up to 200MB/s read and 160MB/s write speeds" Also can not ssh into the device else the warranty will be void, and it is a new unit. However i will still try to follow your steps and if i am able to do it, will reply soon.

umm.. not really sure how to find load per say, the only thing the readycloud shows is the temp and fan speed... i am guessing this aint what you are looking for

currently it is sitting at idle

Hi All, In my home network, i have a gigabit switch (Model: TL-SG108E 3.0) plugged into the wireless router (Tp link Archer C20' lan port). I have my home Ubuntu server, NAS (ReadyNAS 214) and other devices plugged into the ethernet port of the switch. All these devices have gigabit NIC. I assumed that any device connected on switch will be capable of gigabit speeds however when i transfer files between my NAS and my UBUNTU desktop, the speeds are not that fast. I used RSYNC to show the speed, and i have NAS partition mounted on UBUNTU server under /media/test/T1 here are the transfer results:

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I know that is generally true, but if you run the hardware in well ventilated unit and run it under voltage it will not give any prob. I know this as few of my friends are doing it already. My concern as mentioned above is how to run usb 3 hdd(s). can they be run off the odd sata port using port multiplier... this is something that is bugging me

Hi Thomas, Thanks so much for sharing this information. I agree with Linux with being better option, but i have never worked on Linux till date. but i guess one can always learn, why not ! I think i got a pretty understanding of how the software side will look and what to use. But hardware seems to be my bottleneck. I dont really agree with that, the thing is this laptop has 1 gbps lan on board, so instead of using usb 2 why not use sata 2 on board which has better speed. now i can either use sata port multiplier https://www.newegg.com/global/in/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124072&cm_re=sata_port_multiplier-_-16-124-072-_-Product or something like this for usb 3: https://www.newegg.com/global/in/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124177 only thing is i am not sure if either of these will work on my laptop or not !

is bumping allowed on this forum. is there no one to help and guide here... where are the moderators tho ?

Well setting up VPN is a multi step process, you will need a router in home network that acts as an interface for VPN, some high end home wifi routers have this inbuilt option. If you do not have one of those than check if you can use custom router firmware that provides this capability. Such as DDwrt OpenWRT or Tomato [Use this article for ref: External LINK ] If your ISP has provided static IP than it is ok, else you may have get Dynamic DNS to avoid change of IP every time, again this can be achieved in multiple ways. Most wifi router have option for DDNS or DYNDNS in built. i suggest NO-IP dynamic dns provider, it is free and easy to use. you can ignore this if static ip is provided. All you would have to do is get port forwarding enabled. for VPN on server get Open VPN (AS) from the OPen VPN community downloads, you will have to create certificate and keys for the home VPN and client cert file. [Found this great article that will help for UBUNTU External LINK] use client cert file on any open vpn device, it can be macosx, windows, android, just get the client app and use client cert file to connect Well it more easy said than done, i have never tried it on home network as my ISP does not allow port forwarding and i can not get DDNS work. But i have used it on a old remote Centos based server in past and on that i do not have to configure any router, just Open VPN as and cert files and keys. I have very limited exposure to this but hope it helps and pushes you in right direction.

Hi y'all amazing people. Prelude: Today i present to you a dilemma i am dealing with since few weeks. Let me explain (skip to TLDR for shorter version ) I moved from Windows platform to Apple few years back simply because it is more user friendly, i still use a windows computer for office use but personally i have moved on. Since my Windows laptop was getting slower every day and eventually started to give problems i thought to get a new one altogether and bought a Macbook Air. My personal usage at the time was in line with hardware Macbook Air has so it was doing the job.... Until i ran out of space, on the very small SSD (128GB). So i decided to hook up my Seagate External Hard drive to create backups and move my music and videos files over. Since it was bulky to carry around i got a wifi router with USB to plug it in and now i can access the files without any hassle. Eventually i ran out of space and bought a couple of more external drives as there was a sale. TLDR: i have a TP LINK Archer C20 AC750 wifi router (with usb support), with Seagate 2 TB external HDD (NTFS format) plugged into it. With few other external HDDs (both NTFS and Journaled HFS+ format) Problem statement: So here i am with couple of external hdd drives with One USB (2.0) port on the wifi router and i need to keep swapping HDD back and forth. On top of it, the router does not support my HFS+ format HDD. Solution: Create a home NAS using my existing old windows 7 based laptop. But i do not know how i will connect the external drives. Details of the hardware ACER ASPIRE 5740 G laptop: (external link) Intel Core i5-430M 2.26 GHz @ 2.53 GHz 4 GB Ram DDR3 (i think 533MHZ) TP LINK Archer C20 AC750 wifi router (will be used to plug in NAS on lan port) also a spare router running DDWRT, if it helps 2 x USB 2.0 External HDD (2 TB each) 3 x USB 3.0 External HDD (two with HFS+ format) 4TB EACH I am thinking of taking out the hardware out of the laptop case into some thing more breathable so that it can run 24x7 Questions: Which OS should i run, should it FreeNAS or NAS4Free, do they support media server or streaming within home network. I like idea of having windows so that i can take remote of the PC (team viewer) etc and see whats going on, also i can set it to download files off the remote servers without me being in the house I understand the chipset has only USB2.0 support, how do i get my USB 3.0 hard drive to work without loosing on speed. In Future should i buy normal 3.5" HDD as they are cheaper.?? will it be more sensible ? Biggest problem: i have no budget, like nothing at all !! 0$ Any and all help is appreciated and sorry for bad english, it is not my first language.