Posts by backslash

    Depends really on the usage of that particular drive. I spin down drives which I only occasionally use during the week for e.g. streaming a movie in the evening or doing a backup once in a while. I don't see a point in having drives with such usage scenarios spin 24/7 and waste rather expensive energy here in Germany. Other things like OMV itself and docker services I serve from energy efficient SSDs anyway where spin down doesn't apply/matter.


    Of course you should make sure that your spinned down drive(s) don't spin up constantly during the day/night due tue misconfiguration and/or some kind of service which of course would be counter productive. Hd-idle is the only service which spins down HDDs reliably for me.

    By incident I got a very cheap used Ugreen DXP2800 without an actual need for a new NAS since my custom build NAS based on a J5040 CPU works just fine. But it was an offer I couldn't resist.


    The installation of OMV couldn't be more straightforward:


    1. I updated the preinstalled UGOS to the most recent version and did a factory reset (optional step)


    2. Did a backup of the internal eMMC (32GB) using Clonezilla just in case I want to restore the UGOS partition at some point in the future (optional step)


    3. Booted into BIOS (Ctrl + F2) and disabled the Watchdog


    4. Installed OMV onto the eMMC (OMV can of course be installed to any other device and the boot order can also be changed in the BIOS)


    5. Booted OMV :)


    Everything works perfect except for the HDD/LAN activity LEDs which can be fixed: https://github.com/miskcoo/ugreen_leds_controller It would be great to get the LED controller as a plugin at some point for OMV. Personally I don't care about the LEDs because I never look at my NAS once it is set up and running. The power LED works just fine out of the box.


    The Ugreen will of course replace my custom build NAS because it does everything I need in a very slick and silent overall package. :thumbup:

    Hey,


    this is how I configured the FTP service. Sorry for German screens but you should get the idea.


    OMV:



    Router:

    If you don't have a permanent external IP you will need a dynamic DNS service or use cloudflare etc.

    Forget hdparm and just use hd-idle. Only hd-idle spins down harddrives reliably.


    Sowas ist natürlich immer schwierig aus der Ferne zu lösen weil es an allem möglichen liegen kann. Daher vermutlich die geringe Resonanz. ;) Mit meinen Problemen wurde mir immer zügig geholfen.

    You will need a usenet provider like Eweka (the best one imo) and a downloader like SABnzbd that can deal with NZB files to download stuff (binaries) from the usenet. Some users prefer to use VPN in addition but I don't.

    I am using the onboard NIC and never had an issue with it. Neither while installing OMV nor while actually running it.

    Be carefull with that. At the time of server booting, the disk drives consume high peaks of energy and the system is also stressed. If you choose 4 large capacity disks with consumption close to 8 or 10W, you would get dangerously close to the limit of the power supply.

    It's not an issue with four HDDs. The bios makes sure that not all drives are being powered up at the same time when powering up the system. I am using this setup for many years now. But I agree, with more than four 3,5" HDDs one should utilize a traditional 300W ATX PSU at least.