If you spend any time at all at the Linux command line, you need tmux. Period. It makes you orders of magnitude more effective, there’s just no excuse for not using it.
Given that the RN312 NAS is x86 based and using Debian Wheezy, there’s an already compiled package for it. Installing it is trivial. Just ssh into the NAS, then issue:
apt-get intall tmux
That’s it. Copy in your favorite ~/.tmux.conf file, and you are set.
My RN312 has worked flawlessly since the upgrade from the standard 2 GB RAM to 4 GB ditto. I would however like to run some memory intensive applications on the NAS, so an upgrade to 8GB would be nice. Turns out this is not as easy – might not even be
Seems Netgear just released firmware version 6.1.2 for those products that support the new UI (I believe UltraNAS and other non-Intel based devices does not get the benefits of the new version 6 and above firmware – or maybe they have reconsidered – not sure). Updating is always a
As discussed in a previous post, the ReadyNAS might run out of disk space on the 4 GB root partition if you install software other than that provided by NetGear. In my case it was CrashPlan’s cache and log files that were filling up the root partition, with warning