Linksys E3000 + USB hard drive (advice please)
Posted: July 28th, 2012, 3:22 pm
This has nothing to do with SAB but, I figured some smart minds in here may have some advice so I'm giving it a shot!
I recently replaced my old router with a Linksys E3000. I also bought a Seagate 2TB USB drive to go with it. My setup is basically that I've got a family desktop which runs (freshly installed) Windows7, and this is also the machine which runs SAB and SB daemons. Its sort of the mission control computer. I have my SAB download folders on the USB hard drive attached to the router (R:).
Some weird things have been happening lately and I'm not sure what to blame it on. First off, MOST NZBs download correctly, the tv shows are processed by sabtosickbeard.exe and the movies just download flat out. Ok, on to the issues. Sometimes a movie or show fails. The last time this happened SAB labeled it as a CRC Error and conveniently gave me a link marked "retry". So, I clicked that and I immediately got a new browser window with a warning and error. something regarding cherry pie. sorry, I already cleared the queue but I'll post a scrape of the error when it happens again. Anyhow, it was something about not being able to create a folder that already existed. So, I went into my \incomplete folder and deleted the failed show folder. Then when I resent the NZB from sickbeard, I got "Failed making (R:\NEW_DOWNLOADS\Incomplete\<myshow>". So, what I did was go on nzbmatrix and manually download a different NZB. All well and fine.
Despite the fact that R: is a mapped drive, it seems like there is an intermittent permission issue between my SAB/SB machine and this USB hard drive. One thing I really hate about the E3000/USB hard drive setup is that for some reason, I have to administer the hard drive (creating folders, etc) through the linksys firmware GUI. Its not very nice and very confusing.
Here are a few questions:
1) since SAB and SB are on my family desktop but SAB is set to store downloads on the USB hard drive attached to the router, does that present a logistical difficulty for SAB? I mean, it takes a while to move a 3GB movie file from one machine to the other via 100Mb ethernet connection.
2) Is this router basically the gatekeeper of the hard drive and all permissions go through it?
3) would I benefit from an alternative firmware such as tomato or dd-wrt in a permissions sense? Would I have more flexibility of control over this hard drive?
So, I'm looking for advice from you all. I never had any of the these problems when I just hosted the media files AND SAB/SB on the same hard drive/machine. I was considering alternative firmware for the router and, I was also considering making a light linux box out of an old dimension2400 (I have two) and running this hard drive right from there. Maybe that would allow me to assign EVERYONE>FULL CONTROL to the hard drive, basically NO permissions. Sort of a poor man's NAS.
What are your thoughts?
thanks in advance.
I recently replaced my old router with a Linksys E3000. I also bought a Seagate 2TB USB drive to go with it. My setup is basically that I've got a family desktop which runs (freshly installed) Windows7, and this is also the machine which runs SAB and SB daemons. Its sort of the mission control computer. I have my SAB download folders on the USB hard drive attached to the router (R:).
Some weird things have been happening lately and I'm not sure what to blame it on. First off, MOST NZBs download correctly, the tv shows are processed by sabtosickbeard.exe and the movies just download flat out. Ok, on to the issues. Sometimes a movie or show fails. The last time this happened SAB labeled it as a CRC Error and conveniently gave me a link marked "retry". So, I clicked that and I immediately got a new browser window with a warning and error. something regarding cherry pie. sorry, I already cleared the queue but I'll post a scrape of the error when it happens again. Anyhow, it was something about not being able to create a folder that already existed. So, I went into my \incomplete folder and deleted the failed show folder. Then when I resent the NZB from sickbeard, I got "Failed making (R:\NEW_DOWNLOADS\Incomplete\<myshow>". So, what I did was go on nzbmatrix and manually download a different NZB. All well and fine.
Despite the fact that R: is a mapped drive, it seems like there is an intermittent permission issue between my SAB/SB machine and this USB hard drive. One thing I really hate about the E3000/USB hard drive setup is that for some reason, I have to administer the hard drive (creating folders, etc) through the linksys firmware GUI. Its not very nice and very confusing.
Here are a few questions:
1) since SAB and SB are on my family desktop but SAB is set to store downloads on the USB hard drive attached to the router, does that present a logistical difficulty for SAB? I mean, it takes a while to move a 3GB movie file from one machine to the other via 100Mb ethernet connection.
2) Is this router basically the gatekeeper of the hard drive and all permissions go through it?
3) would I benefit from an alternative firmware such as tomato or dd-wrt in a permissions sense? Would I have more flexibility of control over this hard drive?
So, I'm looking for advice from you all. I never had any of the these problems when I just hosted the media files AND SAB/SB on the same hard drive/machine. I was considering alternative firmware for the router and, I was also considering making a light linux box out of an old dimension2400 (I have two) and running this hard drive right from there. Maybe that would allow me to assign EVERYONE>FULL CONTROL to the hard drive, basically NO permissions. Sort of a poor man's NAS.
What are your thoughts?
thanks in advance.
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