Guys,

  I have searched a little and cant find a recent answer for these questions that is clear. Im considering buying a box and would like to know if you can help. Im thinking of getting a TB-1200.

 

Little background: It will be used by ME ONLY as a backup server and media server mostly for movies/TV (bluray). Will be used in conjunction with my current synology 409+ (which has web server, FTP, etc).

 

1. Is the S3 feature enabled and available on these boxes or will it require custom coding (Im not a linux guy)?

2. Can you set a internal network web server (on my synology for example) to send the WOL command?

3. When you enable and do the S3 mode, does it spin up all drives when it comes out of standby?

4. How Do these boxes perform serving media? Can it serve a full bluray (25 gb) fast enough to my WDTV live?

 

Im really intrigued by this rather than buying an expansion module for my synology box since this is only a couple hundred more but has way more expansion capability..

 

Thanks!

 

Reed

 

I believe that you meant the RB-1200 which I believe is sold out.  So you could either recreate this build on your own or have one of the more advanced users on this forum build a server for you.  Perhaps they will reply to your post here.  Where are you Rajahal/prostuff1?

 

1. Is the S3 feature enabled and available on these boxes or will it require custom coding (Im not a linux guy)?

S3 is a user script so my guess is you'd have to do it on any HW supplied by Lime-tech but it is really easy as long as you can follow the instructions on the forum.  I did it and I don't know any linux.  If someone builds it for you they would probably set it up for you if you asked.

 

2. Can you set a internal network web server (on my synology for example) to send the WOL command?

Not sure but I can send WOL from all my windows PCs no problem.    Sorry no help for ya on this one.

 

3. When you enable and do the S3 mode, does it spin up all drives when it comes out of standby?

I believe so.  I say this because I'm not using sleep now but IIRC when I was using S3 all the drives did spin up after waking.

 

4. How Do these boxes perform serving media? Can it serve a full bluray (25 gb) fast enough to my WDTV live?

unRAID does a wonderful job streaming media. You will have no problem streaming full bit-rate BR.  In fact you'll probably be able to support several streams.  I have read posts from numerous users reporting success streaming 2 BR/HD and 1-2 SD signals simultaneously.

So you could either recreate this build on your own or have one of the more advanced users on this forum build a server for you.  Perhaps they will reply to your post here.  Where are you Rajahal/prostuff1?

I am around, thanks for the plug wsume99.

mrbadss: As wsume99 mentioned the RB-1200 is sold at from Limetech.  If you want to recreate it yourself then go for it, it would be a very good learning experience.  If you don't want to mess with it feel free to private message Rajahal and/or myself and we can discuss building one for you.

 

1. Is the S3 feature enabled and available on these boxes or will it require custom coding (Im not a linux guy)?

There is an S3 script available from the community, but it usually takes some tweaking to get it working for each setup.  I have bother to set it up on my unRAID servers as they are constantly on and always doing something.

 

2. Can you set a internal network web server (on my synology for example) to send the WOL command?

That I do not know, it would be a question to as over on the synology forum.

 

3. When you enable and do the S3 mode, does it spin up all drives when it comes out of standby?

Having never used it before, I am not positive but I do believe a sync command is sent when the server is woken up so all drives do spin up when WOL occurs.

 

4. How Do these boxes perform serving media? Can it serve a full bluray (25 gb) fast enough to my WDTV live?

You will not have a problem, granted everything with your network is set up correctly.  With a Gigabit network you should be able to stream mulitple BluRays at once.

where is the s3 script?

 

thanks!

 

Reed

You can find it on the Setup Sleep (S3) and Wake on Lan (WOL) page.