will it work properly if I use it attached to a USB port of a synology NAS or it MUST be plugged to a Win or OS X machine?
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Initial setup should be done by connecting to your PC. Once that is complete you can use it as a 'normal' external hard drive.
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I have this running on a 9821W right now. Works well. Foscam cameras are a bit average and it drops out sometimes and loses image occasionally, but I purely blame the camera. Lots of Foscam cameras are identified in the Synology Surv. setup.
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Mine is hooked up to a PC, mapped to the network (Windows for all its sins does this pretty well in the Control Panel), and I just drag and drop to it from my Mac all the time. I partitioned it before use. Most seamless thing ever.
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Yes, firewire works perfectly (on Macs at least, I'm fortunate not to have a windows machine to be able to test this on). Enough power is supplied via the firewire cable to run the drive. USB is a different matter ... a single USB cable from a Belkin hub attached to my Mac Mini will NOT spin the drive up. The light goes on, but the drive never mounts and it remains invisible on 'Disk Utility'. I was worried this would be the same story on my laptop ... however, a single USB cable works just fine with a 2 year old MacBook Pro. I suspect that it depends how much power the USB delivers, and that newer machines may deliver sufficient. So, USB doesn't suck ... it just depends what you attach it to. I've tried this on a Belkin hub attached to my Mac Mini and on a 15" MacBook Pro.
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Yes. I did exactly that when I purchased my Synology NAS. The BlackArmor NAS was a piece of crap, but the drives are fine and the Syno. NAS will play well with them.
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I used a Synology ds 1513. But i think qnap and most others will support this camera. Just check the campatibity in the nas documentation.
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You can access the drive from any machine on the same network. I have used the NAS with Win 7, Win 8.1, Android, Samsung TV and Ubuntu. If you are asking if the bundled application works with Win 8, sorry mine is installed on a Win 7 machine. Psst, after initial setup you won't need that software at all. Everything can be managed from the Web console.
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They are compatible with Synology. I believe you might need to be running v5 of their os for full compatibility. I am using them with my DS214+
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You don´t need install any software on your PC/Mac. The NAS has the most popular protocols: SMB and CIFS (Windows PC), FTP, NFS (Linux) and AFP (Apple computer). It also has media server protocol (multimedia streaming in smart devices like cellphones, smart TV, game console, etc), and time machine feature (Apple network backup) but I couldn´t make that works :-(. The device came with some application (mostly backup utilities and NAS networks discovery), but the instalation is optional.
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So far I only see compatibility with Windows and Apple operating systems, that's with the Buffalo NAS Navigator software. You might need to contact Buffalo tech support. I am sure there is a way to make it work, because at the end of the day its a storage drive. ;)
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I am not sure of the model of drives you have but you can check it here at the link below.I have used incompatible drives before with no issue. Keep in mind compatibility just means they have tested and are sure that it functions the way it should with your NAS. http://www.synology.com/en-global/support/hd/model/DS413j
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Yes. It works well with 12.04 and newer. It also works well with the NAS4Free variant of FreeBSD.
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plug it into the network as you describe. have each machine install the synology assistant setup software (link came in manual) which adds access to the NAS for each individual computers. There are more direct ways to add the network to each machine without the assistant software, but you need to know how to map a network drive. You can then have them drag their files to the NAS as if they were copying files on their machine.
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The specifications on the website seem to indicate it can work under 240V: http://www.synology.com/products/spec.php?product_name=DS213%2B&lang=enu#p_submenu It uses a power brick that a standard PC power cord plugs into. The power brick says 100V-240V input as well. The output going to the Synology is 12V.
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They should work. However, you will want hard drives that are made to be used in a NAS. I used cheap hard drives in a NAS (not Synology) once and when there was a failure all the data on all the hard drives was lost.
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I have this running on a 9821W right now. Works well.Foscam cameras are a bit average and it drops out sometimes and loses image occasionally, but I purely blame the camera.Lots of Foscam cameras are identified in the Synology Surv. setup.
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Price?? This is cheap compared to my Synology NAS that I use for shared storage. This particular device is great for network storage or as a backup device for a 1:many scenario. It is not difficult to setup, just read the documentation. I have had mine running now for 2 years without a hiccup. If you have problems call tech support up. The tricky part is understand one has to claim a volume before one can use it.