On 17/07/2019 17:28, T i m wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:50:49 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

snip good info

As it happens,
for daughter, the ability to access work photos that she may have been
processing at home, from work (or anywhere) might actually be useful
to her.

The whole "personal cloud" thing is something they push these days.

It's just yet another ongoing cost (if not limited or on your own kit
etc).

Well the point about the personal bit is using your NAS as the storage,
and just providing access to it like it were in the cloud. So it does
not as such represent an ongoing cost other than the lekky to run the
NAS (which you would be paying anyway).

I think they have all suffered the same "progress" to an extent. They
started with very simple GUIs which were basically hierarchical lists of
tasks, and have got more elaborate with time. My current QNAP has a full
blown windowing GUI running inside a browser window.

And that's fine, if they are well designed but it seems much of this
stuff is coming directly from China with a Chinglish manual and
'bitsy' UI. I think the Synology boxes have a bit of a reputation for
the latter, with some utility overlap confusing the issue.

One thing the above tech spec isn't clear about is the standby power
consumption and how you wake it from standby? It mentions the WOL
power consumption but would that mean you would have to send it a WOL
packet to regain access to the shares?

You can schedule power on times. Normally they will wake when something
tries to access them though.

And that would be ok, but I wasn't sure if it was the same thing as
the specific mention of WOL he

https://www.netgear.com/home/product...px#tab-techspe

"Power Consumption - Wake on LAN 1.0W"

I might have considered it to mean 'wake on access' if they hadn't
specifically used the term Wake on Lan (which I have set / used etc)?
I might just be being wary because I've experienced cheap NAS's in the
past that require 'special software' to use them fully (that then
becomes an issue when using numerous machines and Linux etc).

Sounds like its real WoL :

https://kb.netgear.com/23119/What-is...storage-system




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Cheers,

John.

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