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thecus opinions ?
Hi –
just had an opportunity to install a Thecus NAS. With minimal reading of the manual, it seems like an easy box to get into, and setup. However, I found the following quite bizarre, as what should be VERY easy things to configure. I am sure that it is my ignorance of the product.1) you can enable the AFP network service, but you still can’t connect via AFP, or mount via AFP. If you do smb://192.168.1.100, it connects with no issue, but if you do afp://192.168.1.100, it won’t connect – EVEN THOUGH AFP is enabled, and the system was restarted
2) for the life of me, the system would not allow me to assign a static IP address. You go into the network settings. You see the default is 192.168.1.100. You change the IP address (I changed it to 192.168.2.150), applied it and rebooted. Now I could not get back in. I could not ping 192.168.2.150, with the computer subnet changed to match. Thinking that I made a mistake, and it did not save, I switched back to 192.168.1.xxx, and tried to ping the 100 address, and no luck. I could see on the front panel menu that the 192.168.002.150 was the address, but I could not get in. I had to do a factory default reset, which brought it back to 192.168.1.100, and then everything was fine.
Has anyone experienced this ? I am not sure what the exposure to Thecus products there are on this forum.
bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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Hi –
it’s amazing that when you UPDATE THE FIRMWARE of the Thecus, all of a sudden, all the stuff that doesnt’ work, starts to work. I installed the 10G card (which I could not get to work for the life of me), and now that the firmware is updated, the 10G card is seen, and I can assign an IP address, and everything communicates via AFP for SMB without issue, and it’s fast.My only regret is that it took so long to figure this out, as there is no direct support from Thecus, and the manual was not verbose enough.
but it’s a great unit.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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I’m using a pair of the lower end models to backup “on-line” content. One was DOA and had to be returned, but since the RMA, both have been fine.
They don’t seem super robust in construction, but it’s a lot of storage and features for the cost.
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I’m curios which model you installed (would recommend). We are thinking of using a N16000 PRO as near line backup / disc archive of our SAN. The next contender is the OWC Calypso – but I’m starting to loose faith in OWC as we currently use Mercury Rack Pros as our direct connect – and they are one by one dying – and OWC wont support the sets in their new enclosures (you can’t even mount them!) Time to get the media off before our last two enclosures die! Obviously – I’d also be curious if anyone knows of an enclosure that may let us slide in our current RAID sets (shouldn’t any JBOD enclosure work?)
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Hi Rick –
I guess that is why you are speaking with me. I can tell you all about the Thecus, and what you should and should not do (as well as QNAP and Synology).Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com
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