Comments on: Review: Infrant ReadyNAS http://meanderingpassage.com/2006/08/22/review-infrant-readynas/ Experiencing and photographing the twist and turns of life Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:34:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Earl http://meanderingpassage.com/2006/08/22/review-infrant-readynas/comment-page-1/#comment-27911 Earl Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:17:46 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2006/08/22/review-infrant-readynas/#comment-27911 @Zzyzx Oh: Sounds like you got a nice setup and are happy with it. Great suggestion about cleaning the dust out. I regularly blow out all my computers, routers, switches and external storage units about once per quarter. @Zzyzx Oh: Sounds like you got a nice setup and are happy with it. Great suggestion about cleaning the dust out. I regularly blow out all my computers, routers, switches and external storage units about once per quarter.

]]> By: Zzyzx Oh http://meanderingpassage.com/2006/08/22/review-infrant-readynas/comment-page-1/#comment-27910 Zzyzx Oh Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:54:11 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2006/08/22/review-infrant-readynas/#comment-27910 I now have two of these ReadyNAS units in my house. In the older unit, I upgraded the standard 256MB of RAM very cheaply by removing only a few screws that connect the side panels and the top panel. Be careful snapping the new chip into place. Rumor says these run faster with 1GB, but I can't prove that. This unit is conncted to a dedicated 1GB interface on my workstation and you really can't tell that it is any slower than the internal hardware RAID in the workstation. My second unit is housed in a closet in the basement. It's used for rotating backups of the various computers (iMac, Ubuntu, WinXP) throughout the house. It also acts as the household web server and (eventually) BITtorrent host. I purchased this in December 2008 with 3TB of disk for under US$1000. Well worth that price. I recommend you open the case once a year and clean it out. When I changed memory in the older unit I found the top vent holes were clogged with dust. My house isn't dirty, so I assume this was pure airflow related. This was one of the units that had premature power supply failure fixed under extended Infrant warranty. These folks were great to deal with on that issue. One CON is the time it takes to recover from a power failure. If they aren't on UPS, a relatively full disk can take overnight to recover itself. I've had that experience more than once so I'm looking to establish an auto-magic power shutdown on power failure behind a UPS. I now have two of these ReadyNAS units in my house. In the older unit, I upgraded the standard 256MB of RAM very cheaply by removing only a few screws that connect the side panels and the top panel. Be careful snapping the new chip into place. Rumor says these run faster with 1GB, but I can’t prove that. This unit is conncted to a dedicated 1GB interface on my workstation and you really can’t tell that it is any slower than the internal hardware RAID in the workstation.

My second unit is housed in a closet in the basement. It’s used for rotating backups of the various computers (iMac, Ubuntu, WinXP) throughout the house. It also acts as the household web server and (eventually) BITtorrent host. I purchased this in December 2008 with 3TB of disk for under US$1000. Well worth that price.

I recommend you open the case once a year and clean it out. When I changed memory in the older unit I found the top vent holes were clogged with dust. My house isn’t dirty, so I assume this was pure airflow related. This was one of the units that had premature power supply failure fixed under extended Infrant warranty. These folks were great to deal with on that issue.

One CON is the time it takes to recover from a power failure. If they aren’t on UPS, a relatively full disk can take overnight to recover itself. I’ve had that experience more than once so I’m looking to establish an auto-magic power shutdown on power failure behind a UPS.

]]> By: Microsoft Windows Home Server may corrupt data » By Earl Moore » » Meandering Passage http://meanderingpassage.com/2006/08/22/review-infrant-readynas/comment-page-1/#comment-19358 Microsoft Windows Home Server may corrupt data » By Earl Moore » » Meandering Passage Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:43:42 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2006/08/22/review-infrant-readynas/#comment-19358 [...] makes my trusty old Linux based ReadyNAS NV network storage/media streaming device seem cutting edge, or at least not “bleeding [...] [...] makes my trusty old Linux based ReadyNAS NV network storage/media streaming device seem cutting edge, or at least not “bleeding [...]

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