I'm not exactly sure. I wasn't home when the power went out and I have had problems with the NAS not powering down or rebooting after telling it to manually from the web interface. It never seemed like a big deal then, because I always ran the device 24/7 and rarely rebooted it. I spent about 2 weeks using utilities both linux and windows based trying to recover and restore the missing partition info on drive #2, and scanning all the other 3 drives for surface and data errors (they all appeared fine). The array should have been able to function without this drive, but apparently one of the other drives had corrupted data also (I was never able to indentify which one). I finally gave up on week 3, reformatted and started reloading all my data.
If you check the readynas forums, I'm not the only one that has had a problem like this. This is why I decided to run a single TB drive on win2k Server to serve files, and keep hard copys and a readynas copy of all my videos. The raid sounds great, but when it's not as redundant as you think - it sucks to find out the hard way. lopaka Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's no good. How did a power outage corrupt the data? Didn't the NAS shut down? I don't have backups of a lot of my data like TV shows and Photos - the RAID IS my backup. I know that's poor network design, but unless I can afford twice the NAS I need it's all I've got. ----- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: > Also, something to consider is that the readynas, although touted as a > redundant data device is not without occasional catastrophic problems. I had > a power outage that outlasted the UPS and data got corrupted beyond repair > although none of the hard drives were flawed. My second 500GB drive had no > partition data after the power outage and I was unable to recover it using > various utilities on XPPE, Hirens Boot CD, etc. Luckily I had hard backups > of about 80% of the movies and shows. I was 2 weeks from the end of my > warranty and they upgraded me to the NV+ since the NV is no longer > manufactured. It was assumed that the firmware was corrupted but when I > received the NV+ and installed the drives, the same problem recurred and was > not an issue with the nas, but a data loss on my drives. Neatgear will do > data recovery in cases like this but is fee based and probably not cheap. > > lopaka > > Brian Weeden wrote: Right now I'm using the > TwonkyMediaServer to serve content from my HTPC to > my D-link DSM-520 and it works beautifully, as long as the whole browser > election thing isn't disrupting the entire network. Would I be able to > install that on the ReadyNAS? Or would I need an actual full windows > install? The 520 is listed as supported on the Infrant Wiki but I found > the > D-link media server software to be horrible and the Twonky one much > better. > > The ReadyNAS NV+ with no drives is about $900 on Newegg as a "sale" price. > They are $1,050 on Netgear's site. Figure you need another $1200 for 4 1 > TB > drives. Pretty pricey for just a plain box, could build a full windows > home > server for that much. > > I have been using IP addresses to map all my shares for a while now as > well > and it works fine, except for random network-wide drop outs which I am > pretty sure are related to browser elections. > > ----- > Brian Weeden > Technical Consultant > Secure World Foundation > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Robert Martin Jr. > wrote: > > > Thankfully I bought my ReadyNAS NV while Infrant was still in charge. > Now > > that Netgear owns them they raised prices on everything without actually > > improving any of the technology. I paid $550 2 years ago and got > upgraded to > > an NV+ about a month ago when my NV started having problems. They cost > twice > > as much now ??? > > > > It generally works very well as long as you're using supported hard > > drives. I serve media to 2 Xbox media centers, 2 computers and one > network > > DVD player (Avel Linkplayer2) > > > > I have run in to similar issues with the name resolution, so I only use > IP > > addresses when mapping drives and shares. I have no MAC experience so I > > can't be much help there. > > > > I also have a DLink DSM-G600 but although it works well as a standard > NAS, > > the media server is not recognized by my network DVD player. The XBMCs > can > > use it fine by just mapping the shares. I believe the DSM-G600 only > supports > > a 500GB drive though, although some users have higher capacity drives > > running fine. > > > > lopaka > > > > Brian Weeden > wrote: I've posted here before about > > this problem and really haven't solved > > anything yet. For those that haven't heard my ranting before, the issue > > with the Windows on a peer-to-peer network and browsing. If you have a > > server that is actually managing a domain, that server will maintain a > > list > > of which computer name is associated with which IP address on the > network. > > So if I tell my machine to connect to "media" the domain server says "oh > > that's actually 192.169.0.4" or whatever. If there isn't a domain > > controller (ie the network is just peers) one machine will maintain the > > browser list of all the mappings. If something happens, the computer > will > > force an election and the new machine will be the browser. > > > > Sounds great in theory but my experience it has been absolutely > horrible. > > Over the last few years I have had off and on problems, ranging from > > simple > > annoyances like not being able to see any machines listed under "My > > Network > > Places" to massive network slowdowns and inability to transfer even 20MB > > files due to browser elections dropping connections. I have tried many > > solutions with the current being to change the registry in all my > machines > > save one to never maintain the browser list and disabling the browser > > service as well. The one machine which is my media server has that same > > registry key set to "always" and has the service running. > > > > But recently I've found another issue - my wife's MacBook has started to > > participate in this whole mess. A couple of days ago I was going > through > > the event viewer trying to figure out why the network had gone to hell > and > > saw an entry saying that the MacBook had denied access to an IP and > forced > > an election. Getting the MacBook to stop doing that is beyond my > limited > > OSX knowledge. > > > > So, now I'm looking for solutions. I need to rebuild my HTPC / media > > server > > and wanted to see if I could find a solution in that. I really want to > > (try) and cut down on the power used so I was thinking of replacing the > > whole thing with a NAS box and a small set top like an Apple TV or > D-Link > > box. I was doing some research and noticed that all these NAS solutions > > support different filesharing protocols, like CIFS, SMB, AFP, NFS, etc. > > What's the different between these and the normal protocols that are > used > > when you share a drive within Windows? Do they result in more efficient > > use > > of the network bandwidth? > > > > Why are the ReadyNAS boxes so darn expensive (almost $1000 on Newegg for > > diskless NV+)? What are other good options? I need something that will > > support at least 3 TB of storage (ie 4x 1TB SATA drives) in RAID 5 and > > preferably something can I can daisy chain another to to hit my goal of > 6 > > TB > > (ie 4x8 1TB SATA in RAID 5). > > > > Aside from setting up a domain controller, can anyone think of other > ways > > to > > help with my problem of the master browser issue and overall poor > network > > performance? Would running a Windows Home Server box help at all? Or > > would > > a *nix server be better? I have some experience with *nix (specifically > > Ubuntu)? > > > > ----- > > Brian Weeden > > Technical Consultant > > Secure World Foundation > > > > > >
