Comments on: Setting Up A Low Cost NAS Using Tomato

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:36:52 +0000

I formatted my drive into two partitions, one fat32 and the other ntfs. I can mount my fat32 partition easy enough in tomato, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to access the drive from my computer. I am using windows 7 ultimate 64bit with the Asus 520gu. Ive gone under network and see the router itself and that is it. Clicking on the router just brings up access denied. Can anyone help me get this working?

Thank you in Advance,
Tim

By: FJ

FJ — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:58:03 +0000

Hi,

I wonder if there are available programs out there that can also do mirroring (back up). It’s like hooking up 2 hard disk (HD) in your Asus router. First HD is for NAS. Second HD will act as back up of the First HD in case it fails.

By: H K

H K — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:29:55 +0000

Hi,
I am currently using D-Link DNS-321 as a NAS, but it’s woefully slow. I am streaming HD videos to PS3, which requires upto 20Mbps, however, DNS-321 tops out at 10Mbps.
If I setup a wl-520gu with a usb connected hard-drive, what are the expected read/write speeds?
Thanks for your response.

By: sandy

sandy — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:25:38 +0000

I was sucessful at setting up the NAS on a Asus 520gu. However, I just recently reformatted my HDD from fat32 to ext3. Now, I am having trouble accessing my files. I know it has to do with permissions. On my Ubuntu machine, I used sudo chown –R username:username /media/movies and I was able to access my movies files, but I don’t know how to set this up in tomato. I am assuming you need a script in the “Init” section before accessing the HDD. I am able to mount the HDD. There are 2 partitions (ext3 & NTFS). I can access the files on the NTFS partition. I also have a swap partition. I’ve searched a few forums and google, but can’t find any help. Thanks!

By: karbonkel

karbonkel — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:44:53 +0000

solved

started with 1 partition ext3, didn’t work
then saw the post of foobar and made a second partition fat 32
however forgot to enable FAT File System Support in tomato
stupid
after enable it worked fine

By: karbonkel

karbonkel — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:50:23 +0000

works great with my 4gig thumb usb
however tomato cannot mount my 500g lacie
tomato recognises my lacie but when i try to mount it it asked if it’s powered on
i’ve made a fat32 10g partition, the other partition, about 460gig is formated ext3
is there a limit of gb that tomato can mount or am i doing something wrong?
spend houers already, please help

dirk

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:10:19 +0000

Would like to repeat Misc’s questions:

What are the options to make attached USB HDD accessible over internet from remote locations? And also being secure. So I can upload and download files from any remote location.
Is it possible?

And ask my own:

Is anyone using any backup software like Crashplan, GFI backup, allwaysync, Comodo, etc. to automatically backup computers on the network to the NAS?

Files backed up on the NAS should have read and write capability, correct?

Thank you in advance!

By: admin

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:15:55 +0000

USB2 + 802.11b by itself is slow. NTFS on top of it will make it even more slower. EXT3 I would assume would definitely be faster than NTFS.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:36:59 +0000

Thanks for the awesome guide!

One question though. ND is now releasing a firmware with NTFS support. Since my drive is already in NTFS, I just plugged it in to get it working, but am considering formatting to ext3. I know in a previous post you said NTFS is a pretty bad performing file system, but is it bad enough to be a bottleneck in this system (ie, will the NTFS hold back transfer speeds? Or will the USB 2.0, or 802.11b/g hold back speeds more?)

Thanks!

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:31:15 +0000

This is a fantastic post, thank you so much. I was looking for this since long time. Once i use your post it work like charm.

Thanks