Synology USB Station 3-in-1 SOHO Server - Review, Prices
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- Toshel on 2007-11-30 - Tags kvrech-storage
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Getting USB Drives Ready for Sharing
Before you think you can start streaming DivX over the LAN from a USB HDD connected on the USB Station, there's one more step to do and that's formatting. The USB Station mandates all USB storage larger than 2GB (max. 500GB) to be formatted into EXT3 file system or 'native' format as Synology puts it. The EXT3 is for security purposes on Linux. If all you are sharing is a 1GB flash drive, you can keep it in FAT, and every client on the network will see it as 'usbshare'. On the contrary, the USB Station will show an EXT3 shared drive in 'admin', 'private' and 'public', each of which folder has its own permission settings.
Before you think you can start streaming DivX over the LAN from a USB HDD connected on the USB Station, there's one more step to do and that's formatting. The USB Station mandates all USB storage larger than 2GB (max. 500GB) to be formatted into EXT3 file system or 'native' format as Synology puts it. The EXT3 is for security purposes on Linux. If all you are sharing is a 1GB flash drive, you can keep it in FAT, and every client on the network will see it as 'usbshare'. On the contrary, the USB Station will show an EXT3 shared drive in 'admin', 'private' and 'public', each of which folder has its own permission settings.
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For USB performance, I tested with a relatively fast 23MB/s read, 14MB/s write Kingston DataTraveler 1GB, and a 4200-rpm 20GB 1.8" USB hard drive.
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