[Tfug] Western DIgital MyCloud

[Leo Przybylski]

I also got a pogoplug and a drobos mini. I want to compare the 3 and
see which is a better NAS. Obviously, they have different markets, but
there is some crossover.

Leo

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Leo Przybylski <r351574nc3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow! That's some coincidence. I just got the EX4.
>
> I haven't modified mine yet, but I did snoop around. It runs a twonky
> media server and lighttpd, so this opens up a whole world of
> possibilities. I've heard in the community that the lighttpd app for
> management will crash because of hung processes like convert. My guess
> is that when you flip the switch for media serving on your share, it
> will run scripts against files once they've been copied. This is
> probably for the twonky media server and the cloud sharing. Their
> scripts are probably buggy and don't handle simultaneous executions
> very well or at all. Sooooo... the plan is to do some hacking and find
> out why the crashes happen and fix it. Also, I want to get rid of
> twonky and replace it with something like plex while still having the
> benefit of the cloud.
>
> Leo
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:54 AM, JD Rogers <rogersjd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone else played with these? I just bought a 4TB MyCloud because I wanted
>> cheap NAS with low power consumption. I confess, in an uncharacteristic
>> impulse buy, I didn't really 'read up' very thoroughly before ordering. So
>> when I started getting annoyed with the web interface after 30s, I was
>> pleased to find I could ssh to it (as root) and use rsync.
>>
>> Then I started poking around and was surprised when I found a
>> /etc/apt/sources.list that points to debian wheezy. An ARM processor running
>> debian out of the box. Sweet. When you enable ssh, you have to acknowledge
>> that "modifying" the system voids the warranty, but I figure it is worth it.
>>
>> Has anyone here done anything cool with one of these? I was thinking of
>> trying to get dmcrypt/luks working, or maybe just encfs and some cron
>> tweaks.
>> JDR
>>
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