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And that's Qontest with a "Q" fellas...so you know it's the real deal.

To enter the contest simply "Like" this topic. The winner will be chosen by a secret method known only to me™...and will be announced in this topic when the Qontest ends. Shipping will be free.

Yeah, it's an ancient hunk 'o iron...probably better used for a door-stop, or for plinkin' with your AR15...but what the heck, eh...it's free and I could use the likes.

This unit will be shipped "as is" with no drives installed. I never booted this thing and I cannot guarantee if it's functional, although the previous owner indicated that it works as designed.

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Geez Louise Bummer Brian...I did say "...Yeah, it's an ancient hunk 'o iron...probably better used for a door-stop, or for plinkin' with your AR15...but what the heck, eh...it's free..."
 

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I guess someone could put a sticker on it that says "Security Video Recorder" and leave it in plain sight for the burglars.
 

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OK...I've taken enough abuse austinou.gif This Qontest is Qlosed. And that's Qlosed with a "Q" fellas...so you know it's really over. It's over and I declare the dumpster the winner!
 

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I would have still tooQ™ it. I want to get a NAS but I just spent 1500 on all the other cam related stuff lol. So I have to wait a bit.
 

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Woohoo! Free Qrap! I snoozed and loozed I guess. At least someone gets to enjoy it. And here I am about to order a NAS myself. Guess I'll have to buy one without the "danger" of a 4 hour erection as per the disclaimer.
 

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DafuQ? I posted about the 4 hr erection and guess what popped up for the first IPCT site ad after clicking send? Plenty of Fish! Too funny...
 

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Said disclaimer
No electrons were harmed in the making of this disclaimer. In the event of a Woody that persists longer than 4 hours, the patient should seek immediate medical assistance. Have a nice day.
The disclaimer made me laugh (And no Woody involved):

My fave Woody (see below), is running for "medical assistance" as Quickly as possible. I thought maybe I need a new low-hanging belt to hold/conceal my "guns", even tho I'm not a Qowboy.:


Tongue firmly in cheek,
Respectfully, Fastb
 

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Possibly could make a good room heater.
I have poor insulation so that works! Haha at least through the winter and then I can decide if I want to upgrade or ditch the idea if for some reason I don't like the idea of a NAS on my network (not sure why I would come to this conclusion but idk).
 

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@Q™

Got the NAS today. Fired it up and it appears to work. Display shows an error at boot that no drive is detected or something of that nature. I ordered a compatible hard drive for it today that should come in next Tuesday. I'll let you know how it goes but it appears to be in working order as far as I can tell so far. Thanks again! Q™ da man!
 

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Good deal bro. It's a nice hunk of hardware and I really hope it works out for you Phil. View attachment 23361
Alright @Q™,

So I got a compatible drive in yesterday and fired this sucker up. Max drives it supports are 2TB, but that's OK. That's still plenty for my needs. Everything is working fine and dandy. The transfer speed on this thing is a little slow, so I will not be using it for a file server, but it seems to work fine to point my blue iris clips to after the internal drive(s) fill up. I'm only getting about 100mbps out of this thing (not 100mBps) but I think it's just the device. I can copy from other servers to other servers and get close to gigabit speeds. I tested playback of clips that had got sent over to the NAS and they seem to play just fine!! Which is awesome!! I can even skip ahead and fast forward X64 or whatever the highest setting is and Blue Iris doesn't seem to mind the 100mbps connection. I may try to add more ram to this thing and see if that changes anything.

This thing is going to hold me over until I can purchase a proper desktop with internal space for one or two large (6-8TB) WD Purples. You see I already had an R710 that I was using as a file/SMB server. You see I have been playing around with Hyper-V over SMB, and this server has worked well for these needs. The server came with 8 x 500gb 2.5 inch laptop hard drives and after RAID and my SMB shares etc, I only had 500GB left for Blue Iris which was a whole 4 days of video and I am adding another camera as soon as it gets here from Andy.

So long story short this NAS will give me adequate storage (thinking I am going to buy one 2TB drive per pay check to fully populate it) until I can switch over to a proper desktop, which will have to be after Christmas time as my wife just transitioned to a lower paying job to have more flexibility as we had a baby 4 months ago.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know I am putting this thing to good use. My hope is that if anyone ever did break in, they would grab this thing and the footage of them stealing it would be on my R710. I have 2 X R710's so I doubt they would want to take the time of loading up two 50+ pound servers. They could try to destroy them I guess but I think that would take even more time, especially since the front face plates are locked and would have to be pried off.

Here are a few screenshots.

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Thanks again Q™!!! You Rock!

 
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