DSM is definitely the way to go, on real or better hardware. Even Fox discontinued his work because of all the technical issues, hope just didn't translate into long term viable reality. The XPenology is just by far, all things considered, the best way to go, your own hardware, your own technical specs, greater support, or yes of course, a real Synology. The performance alone was reason to ditch it, even with the official WD software, forget using Plex with MKV files in many cases, transcoding was a bomb. Front LED lights, cooling fan all seemingly not working well and truth be told, grossly under-powered CPU and subpar ethernet connection. Two drives were to small for my needs.Ī fun and exciting challenge, yes. I went to a 920+ (recently) after using a 5 drive home built. IF I was to keep using the WD NAS, I would have left DSM on it. Incompatible devices will lose support on April 15, 2022.
Compatible devices must Upgrade to My Cloud OS 5 by January 15, 2022. We’ve developed a new OS to keep up with evolving security standards. Was it worth it? It worked better than the WD NAS software. Support for your My Cloud device is changing. The reason - "a fun and exciting challenge". If you do a simple upgrade from WD it was easy. The telnet thing was advanced recovery for it. Still, in case you want to go to town on it, you might like this: Synology software, straight forward, clean, intuitive and "it just works". Just setting up something simple like TimeMachine share, if you didn't know you needed to go into 10+ menu options/levels, only to have it NOT work - frustrating. I'm an IT professional for over 20 years, and just found those solutions to be undesirable. Most of those other Linux based OS solutions are excessively over complicated, too many levels of annoying granularity that much be configured just to do the smallest of things. I had tried sooooo many other things, RockStore, Windows Home Server, Open Media Vault, FreeNAS. I have an EX2, EX2 Ultra, but ultimately ditched them for their lackluster performance and application support, but got them for $99 so it was my initial stepping stone on my way to XPenology. Very likely the market share of these WD M圜loud EX product lines are pretty small and not worth the time and effort. Restoring 1 GB of video and photo files took about 17 mins that’s about 10 minutes more than what Acronis and Backblaze took. However, its download speed is nothing to rave about. It took 1 hr and 28 mins to complete my initial upload of 16 GB files. Having said that, though a fun and exciting challenge, I would say "WHY?!". IDrive uploaded data faster than other cloud backup solutions for Windows I tested. He is just one guy, I would imagine with this core of his work being available online and the crew of brainiac's around here, people intimately familiar with the inner workings of the software, they could very likely bridge the gap. I had been interested in the same thing as well, and for some time, had been following this 1 and only thread I could ever find of someone actually taking on the challenge. I can't flash it back unless I can get into it via telnet port 23. Password doesn't work for 101-0101, todays date calc, -, blank, admin.
Tried to Telnet into it using the root and the Synology password gen by date. Installs unto 57% before the corrupt file (13) appears. Reboots into the Synology Web Assistant and ID's fine. Flashed Firmware to Synology using wd to dsm.binįlash went fine. And it also works for WD My Cloud private share access denied if you are currently using a private network. Adding a Windows credential for this cloud storage is a good start. Set permissions cd /shares/user chown user. Solution 11: Use DHCP reservation for WD My Cloud Solution 1: Add Windows Credential for WD My Cloud.
Update user account to point to user share folder.Create repo folder and make group writeable.
Save it, and then do install it over "Install an app manually" link in AppStore tab. Open it in HEX editor - and change 4B 69 6E 67 73 43 61 5A (KingsCaZ) to 47 72 61 6E 64 54 65 5A (GrandTeZ) at first string.