r/asustor

Is anyone having issues since updating to this version?

Ok home Asustor. I am looking for some input.

I have a reasonable home lab, but I am disappointed with my NAS. Its a Asustor Lockstar Gen2 6 6706t.. 6x14tb, 64Gb ram, a 4Tb SSD.. Nice.. Raid 5.

However when doing thumbnails it sucks, very laggy, and really seems to be hit hard with raid 5 thrashing.. My AI image server is pointing to this, so generating hundreds of large many Mb images, and then when trying to view all the mess its making the thrashing for thumbnails. It can take 20-30 seconds to get one thumbnail (but then lots come in pretty soon I assume its creating 10 thumb nails at the same time and not caching writes.).

I was looking at using 2 x 16Gb Optanes as cache (you need two under raid, although it will do Raid5 with 3 - but I want to keep my 4tb NVME as a workspace, and I have 10GbE AQ113 nvme to add 10GbE to it).

I thought the ram would solve my problem, but it doesn't seem to be caching writes, and it doesn't solve the raid 5 problems with small files. Seems great for reads.

Is 2 x 16Gb Optane enough, it would seem to be enough for small files ~30mb, low latency, high endurance. I have some 512Gb PCIE4 NVME I can use, but that seems like a waste for just cache, and honestly I worry about write cycles.. I have loads of ram for network buffering and read buffering, but the write stuff particularly with small files across a 6 drive raid 5 is painful. Sustain writes are fine..

These 16Gb Optane are cheap.. $10 USD delivered. Would this solve my problem and does anyone else use them? While 16Gb isn't that big, its still almost a minute of 2.5GbE bandwidth. So when writing lots of small files intermixed with reads, or thumbnailing etc it would seem to offer a big performance boost. It has lots of ram, the disks are fast, and I have 4tb nvme in there anyway.

Is anyone else using these?

Hi All,

As the title says it all, I have an ASUSTOR 1102TL. I installed NextCloud and was set up and worked. I was able to access the shared folder using the URL and uploaded files remotely without any issue.

All of a sudden, the NextCloud shared folder is inaccessible via URL. I see it installed through AppCentral, but cannot open.. I attempted to uninstall and reinstall and still cannot open.

Any ideas how to get NextCloud working again? ADM firmware is current. NextCloud version current.

I've had an Asustor for about 5 years, for simple home / family use, happily doing its thing and backing up to a cloud service (BackBlaze) daily.

I noticed by chance last week that the backup jobs have been failing for about a month and although I have it set to email system alerts, this didn't apply to the Cloud Backup Centre app. Having a dig around it appears that the app places an entry to the System Log for job creation / job deletion, but not job started / completed / failed. The app does record these events but it seems to do it in another database, accessed from within the app.

My request is to have these log entries sent to me, but I can't figure out how (without going down the line of writing a cron job to read the app log and email me).

(The other side of the problem is there was an issue getting data to BackBlaze that they weren't helpful in resolving. I fixed that in the end by simply creating a new bucket (didn't change any other settings), which indicates the bucket on BackBlaze was not as it should be.)

EDITED : As it turns out the functionality isn't in the product, I created a script to read Cloud Backup Centre's log database, format each job (success or failure) into a readable line and runs every morning at 06:00 via cron, emailing results (remembering what has already been sent). Works a treat