Hi everybody 
We have a few terabytes of photos (raw and jpegs, for the most still to process and organize), videos and personal documents, with relatives backups, scattered across several external HDs bought over the years.
Obviously, working on old files when I have spare time is a pain, not to mention to backup whatever changes I make. Plus, in the family we have an ipad, several android devices, a mac, an ubuntu laptop and a windows virtualbox to backup and stream to.
So, I decided to move to a NAS. Currently I am running a raspberry pi with raspbian and samba, hooked via lan to modem and to a few usb hds . This works fine and can double as media center hooked to a tv, but it's slow for file access.
I never expected to process photos directly from the NAS, but even browsing jpeg previews to change metadata is painfully slow.
The best I can get between raspberry pi and laptop, via ethernet is 25mbit/s, and less via wifi.
I am not a gamer or heavy streamer. With our cheap provider offpeak internet speed is 11mbit/s download and 1.1mbit/s upload, it's slow but I am fine with it.
What I would like is a relatively fast network to access the files in storage.
What I have now:
- Laptop, acer 1810tz, no usb 3.0 or pci slots for upgrading, centrino n wifi adapter and, good news, a gigabit ethernet port. Running ubuntu, and windows via virtualbox.
- Raspberry Pi B+, so latest version, 4 usb 2.0 and one 100/Mbits ethernet, wifi adapter n. Running raspbian.
- Several usb 2.0 drives quite full, some ntfs, others FAT32
- A Technicolor modem with integrated router, b/g/n, 4 ethernet 100/mbit. Admittedly rubbish as for wifi coverage, particularly with my laptop.
What I was considering getting:
- A new router, future-proof, not necessarily an integrated modem/router, given my ADSL only gives me 11mbit/s. So, I was considering ac models with gigabit lan ports, at least one usb 3.0 and with a very good range, playing nice with non ac enabled devices too. I am not necessarily looking for integrated software (torrent clients or else). I would appreciate any advice as for which model to get.
- An ac dongle for my laptop, even if not having usb 3.0 would put a bottle neck possibly.
- A few usb 3.0 external hard drive, either 2gb 2.5 or 3gb 3.5 with external power source, given they cost the same.
- Powerline extension, something rated at 600mbit/s, to connect via LAN from another room if the ac speed is not good enough.
The idea would be to plug one 3gb hd as main storage directly to the new router, and the router to the powerline via lan (I suppose the router should have two lan ports, so to attach the modem to the other one?) That point I could access my photos directly via ac wifi and the lan, through usb 3.0, so the only bottleneck would be the disk speed.
The other drive would go to the raspberry PI via the modem slow 100/mbit lan. It would only serve as a mirror backup of the main drive, to be updated every night, so low speed is not an issue.
I'll also plug another of my drives to the router, to store anything I can risk loosing in case of HD failure.
I was hoping to get 160-180 Mbit/s via Lan.
Do you think the above makes sense?
We have a few terabytes of photos (raw and jpegs, for the most still to process and organize), videos and personal documents, with relatives backups, scattered across several external HDs bought over the years.
Obviously, working on old files when I have spare time is a pain, not to mention to backup whatever changes I make. Plus, in the family we have an ipad, several android devices, a mac, an ubuntu laptop and a windows virtualbox to backup and stream to.
So, I decided to move to a NAS. Currently I am running a raspberry pi with raspbian and samba, hooked via lan to modem and to a few usb hds . This works fine and can double as media center hooked to a tv, but it's slow for file access.
I never expected to process photos directly from the NAS, but even browsing jpeg previews to change metadata is painfully slow.
The best I can get between raspberry pi and laptop, via ethernet is 25mbit/s, and less via wifi.
I am not a gamer or heavy streamer. With our cheap provider offpeak internet speed is 11mbit/s download and 1.1mbit/s upload, it's slow but I am fine with it.
What I would like is a relatively fast network to access the files in storage.
What I have now:
- Laptop, acer 1810tz, no usb 3.0 or pci slots for upgrading, centrino n wifi adapter and, good news, a gigabit ethernet port. Running ubuntu, and windows via virtualbox.
- Raspberry Pi B+, so latest version, 4 usb 2.0 and one 100/Mbits ethernet, wifi adapter n. Running raspbian.
- Several usb 2.0 drives quite full, some ntfs, others FAT32
- A Technicolor modem with integrated router, b/g/n, 4 ethernet 100/mbit. Admittedly rubbish as for wifi coverage, particularly with my laptop.
What I was considering getting:
- A new router, future-proof, not necessarily an integrated modem/router, given my ADSL only gives me 11mbit/s. So, I was considering ac models with gigabit lan ports, at least one usb 3.0 and with a very good range, playing nice with non ac enabled devices too. I am not necessarily looking for integrated software (torrent clients or else). I would appreciate any advice as for which model to get.
- An ac dongle for my laptop, even if not having usb 3.0 would put a bottle neck possibly.
- A few usb 3.0 external hard drive, either 2gb 2.5 or 3gb 3.5 with external power source, given they cost the same.
- Powerline extension, something rated at 600mbit/s, to connect via LAN from another room if the ac speed is not good enough.
The idea would be to plug one 3gb hd as main storage directly to the new router, and the router to the powerline via lan (I suppose the router should have two lan ports, so to attach the modem to the other one?) That point I could access my photos directly via ac wifi and the lan, through usb 3.0, so the only bottleneck would be the disk speed.
The other drive would go to the raspberry PI via the modem slow 100/mbit lan. It would only serve as a mirror backup of the main drive, to be updated every night, so low speed is not an issue.
I'll also plug another of my drives to the router, to store anything I can risk loosing in case of HD failure.
I was hoping to get 160-180 Mbit/s via Lan.
Do you think the above makes sense?
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