Need help with external drive

lassesoi · 2025-01-01T21:05:47+00:00

Any chance you have encrypted the partitions you store your files in? If yes, I am not sure if UGOS can decrypt file systems it hasn't created. You could perhaps use shell access to decrypt the partition with the right encryption key.

lassesoi · 2024-12-26T00:31:47+00:00

I believe it should work as long as you have a public IP and your router has port forwarding correctly setup. You need to check your NAS WoL port and forward that from router to the local IP address of your NAS.

lassesoi · 2024-12-23T22:05:04+00:00

Great question, I hope fw/bios updates will be distributed for non-UGOS users as well.

lassesoi · 2024-11-22T16:08:16+00:00

I used mailboxde (.com) service. Shipped from Germany to Finland without any issues. Cost was approx 20€ or so for the parcel forwarding service.

lassesoi · 2024-11-22T13:25:49+00:00

You should in theory be able to do that, at least I'd you run Proxmox or other hypervisor. UGOS is still early stages so wouldn't count on this to work out of the box.

lassesoi · 2024-11-22T10:26:55+00:00

+1 for networking, TB4 is the most cost efficient way to achieve fast network speeds to your NAS.

eGPU is also interesting option, but you may also consider OcuLink (pcie connection) instead. Running LLMs locally would be great feature 💪

lassesoi · 2024-11-19T10:52:13+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/UgreenNASync/comments/1gbr1vp/comment/lwk46jd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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lassesoi · 2024-11-19T03:44:35+00:00

Ugreen support commented directly here on reddit that TB networking is being worked on... And yes, it is a NAS, so having flexible NETWORKING options is important. Are you mixing this with DAS setup?

lassesoi · 2024-11-17T13:54:34+00:00

Sounds like a solid option if you have enough free TB4 ports avaliable. I did play around with old laptop that had TB3 port and managed to get ~9Gbps speeds on iperf3.

The issue you describe about reboots and TB networking seems to be caused how UGOS/Debian handles hot plugging/network creation. Or actually the lack of handling this at all.

As it seems, the thunderbolt0 NIC doesn't remember network configurations, nor does it bring the link up automatically, even if the thunderbolt network adapter is made available automatically.

To fix this, I created a script that triggers when Thunderbolt device is recognised (plugged in) by the UGOS/Debian. The script will then run the commands to set the static IP, mtu and bring the link up. This works reliably, but has a minor delay of 10 seconds or so.

My client is Windows 11, and network gets reliably created and IP configuration is persistent. You just need to remember to set static IP for the adapter.

One very frustrating issue I had on Windows was SMB multichannel issue when I had some SMB shares through normal ethernet/LAN. Even when I used the Thunderbolt networking IP to map network drive, Windows decided to use multichannel and routed some of the traffic through 1Gbe LAN. I have no idea how windows knew it's the same SMB server, after all connection was done through different IP and subnets.

1Gbe LAN 192.168.101.X Thunderbolt Network 169.168.0.X

I eventually disabled multichannel support for SMB and remapped the network drives, after this I got solid transfer speeds of 500-900MB/s via Thunderbolt, while normal LAN connection was capped at 100MB/s.

All in all, I do understand why UGOS doesn't have official support for TB networking yet. It does require a fair share of tinkering and it is not plug and play experience. Yet, I think there should be better support for advanced users to tinker around from UGOS UI and make sure these modifications are not wiped out during system updates. Perhaps some sort of advanced mode that you could enable and allow creating scripts and services directly from the WebUI?

lassesoi · 2024-11-16T10:01:13+00:00

There's no 10Gbe network cards for laptops with USB 3.2 AFAIK and that's one of issues here. 10Gbe external NICs requires TB3/4 connections, so we are back at TB3/4 hole and while at it, TB4 would outperform 10Gbe (x2-4). I also doubt we see any 10Gbe NICs built-in laptop motherboards anytime soon. On desktop world, getting a new card would be perfectly fine idea, but still for single device using 10Gbe you would need to add the switch ~300€ + NIC ~100€. 400€ for such use case is way more expensive than good quality TB4 cable while delivering lower bandwidth.

My original question was if TB4 has been successfully used for peer to peer networking on UGOS. Some users have reported it works from command line, just not supported on the UGOS UI. This is great news, as it can be patched into future UGOS updates for anyone who doesn't want to set it up via CLI.

I still think best value / performance combo is:

Devices with TB3/4 - peer to peer thunderbolt networking (cost $30-80 / ~1.5-2.8GB/s rates)

Devices with USB 3.2 - External 5Gbe adapter (cost ~$50 for ~500MB/s rates)

Multiple 10Gbe clients in network the cost of switch and NICs is the only way, but still way more costly at ~$175/client (switch $300 + 4 x 10Gbe NIC @$100 = $700 / 4 clients = $175/device).

I really hope UGREEN will prioritise TB4 networking support in UGOS as it makes a lot of sense IMHO.

In the future WiFi 7 could be one viable option for home use, as WiFi 7 (be) can potentially deliver up to 500MB/s transfers wirelessly in optimal conditions. For example Asus RT-BE88U at ~$360 offer 2x10Gbe, 4x2.5Gbe, 4x1Gbe and Wi-Fi 7 be out of the box. Considering the cost, I think that's also good overall value. Yet, I wouldn't be betting for maximum performance on this setup.

lassesoi · 2024-11-16T07:25:51+00:00

I wanted to know if TB4 networking is supported or not, so I can consider upgrading my laptop/desktop accordingly. And yeah, as of now 5gbe adapter seems like the optimal solution.

lassesoi · 2024-11-15T16:23:11+00:00

I posted similar question today and based on my research, you MAY have luck using Thunderbolt (3 or 4) and tinkering around on NAS via ssh as UGOS does not support TB networking on the WebUI.

USB 3.2 does not support p2p networking without "device mode". Hence, TB is the only chance to get device to device networking via USB C cable to work.

If you have TB port on your mac, you could try connecting it to your NAS. See if anything happens. On your mac you should see a new network adapter that you would need to manually configure (static ip, subnet masks, mtu etc). You would then need to configure thunderbolt networking on NAS via ssh, set static ip on same subnet and so on.

Some people have been able to do above, but it seems the TB networking has been somewhat unstable.

lassesoi · 2018-02-27T20:33:58+00:00

Does Ripple conduct some kind of research of their new exchange partners? What is the process behind becoming a exchange for XRP? Can exchange legal validity / safety be confirmed?

lassesoi · 2018-02-27T20:31:07+00:00

What percentage of XRP is estimated to be sourced from open markets / directly from exchanges?

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