notanatheist Wrote: > If I had the money I'd love to play with an Infrant ReadyNAS. All things > considered, all I spent (on Ebay) was $250 for the parts I didn't > already have (motherboard with 64bit PCI and 3Ware RAID card).
notanatheist Wrote: > If I had the money I'd love to play with an Infrant ReadyNAS. My collection is hosted on a ReadyNAS NV with 4x500GB drives, yielding 1368GB of storage (61% of which is already used!). Based on my experience I'd say the NV is not yet ready for the mainstream unless you have a lot of patience. Many users, myself included, have experienced performance issues in terms of read and write speeds. I've owned mine since March and have only recently managed to get data throughput to useable speeds - it took a firmware upgrade on the NV. That said, my throughput speeds are still only 50% of that touted by Infrant. I am using Infrant recommended Intel gig-e NICS and switch. Other users have been luckier and gotten close to the advertised speeds. The other thing I'd make sure I do if using the NV is have a robust backup solution - there have been some posts in the user forums that scare the absolute crap out of me in terms of the potential for data loss. The product shows promise, but there is no way in hell I'd currently rely on it as a sole store of anything I value. By the end of this weekend I hope to have the NV hooked up to my SB3 in the lounge (bypassing my PC), but not before I've made that backup. If I didn't want a standalone unit in the lounge I'd build a RAID box running Linux to store all my audio - it would perform better and IMHO my data would be safer. With the benefit of hindsight the best solution for me would have been the Linux based RAID box hard-wired to my SB3 and network DVD player. That way I could easily update the audio and video libraries at high speed and not have to cringe everytime someone in the house uses the microwave. -- egd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25340 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
