[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
Some interesting information above. I'm wondering how quiet the Ready Nas NV actually is. I'm considering getting one and putting it in my living room. How many fans does it have and are they noisy? Is it comparable to having a pc on? Is it as quiet as an Apple mac mini ? Thanks in advance. -- dannyd dannyd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
HST Wrote: > 1. Storage > I have just installed my 1TB TeraStation and copied my MP3. Hours later > ... I wanted SlimServer to search the new mapped network drive > (X:\Music) but SlimServer tells me "Ups ... not valid. Try again." > > What am I doing wrong? (Any Ideas or Links, please.) Use a UNC style path instead of a mapped drive letter. When the service starts up, it won't know the mapped drives that you've set up for yourself. A UNC share name looks like: \\MachineName\ShareName\folder\... The \folder\... part isn't needed if your library is in the root directory of the share. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
1. Storage I have just installed my 1TB TeraStation and copied my MP3. Hours later ... I wanted SlimServer to search the new mapped network drive (X:\Music) but SlimServer tells me "Ups ... not valid. Try again." What am I doing wrong? (Any Ideas or Links, please.) 2. SlimServer on NAS? Can I avoid keeping my PC on all the time? Thanks -- HST HST's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6161 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
I've had a ReadyNAS 600 that I bought without drives last August. I populated it with four 320GB Western Digital WD3200JD drives, giving me about 872 GB of RAID5 storage. After some initial strife getting the drives installed and set up the way I wanted (mostly my own fault) and one failed drive in the first month, the thing has run pretty much flawlessly. I tried running Slim Server on it, but wasn't impressed with the performance, so canned that idea. I also tried using their included backup software, but ran into issues, so switched to using NTBackup and now back up PCs on my network that way. At this point I use the NAS for absolutely nothing but storage and have all of the included software services disabled. Performance isn't mindd-boggling, but it's adequate. Adding a 1000 Gbps switch to my home network helped a lot, plus I've found the performance of the PC doing the reading or writing to the NAS plays a large factor. To give you an idea of up time, my NAS has been shut down exactly _once_ in the last six months, when I upgraded its firmware in March. Looking at the logs, it ran continuously from 20-Oct-2005 to 16-Mar-2006. Almost five months without so much as a hiccup. I think you could successfully use it wirelessly with a USB wireless adapter, but I'd have two large reservations about doing this: 1) Troubleshooting Slim Server problems, particularly wireless issues if you use your SB wirelessly, will be compounded by having your storage connected wirelessly. 2) Library scanning will take a performance hit. While I think the wireless storage connection will be more than adequate to keep a few Squeezeboxes fed a music stream, the scanning will be slow. If you only scan occasionally, this may not be an issue, but if you're like me and constantly adding new music, you'll want to scan fairly often and may not like waiting. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
Jetlag Wrote: > You may want to spend some time reading the posts on the Bufallo forum > vs. the Infrant forum. Quite a difference and it is what made me > choose first the X6, then follow that up with an NV. I have had 0 > issues with my units. > > My NV has been "up" for over 4 weeks, running SS non-stop. I do not > know how to write Linux, so home-grown was not an option and I've never > had my PC up for 4 weeks without a reboot (even if it is just for a > security patch re-boot). > well, for all that reasons I was almost decided to buy a ReadyNAS NV. That was when I still thought it would cost 688 Euros, which is already a lot. Now I found out that this price was without VAT and the only German distributor sells it for 800 Euros (which is around 1000 Dollars!!!). That is empty, no HDs included. These prices are just insane, I am definitely not going to pay that... Maybe I will have to go the DIY way after all... Pricing in Germany has already been a topic in the Infrant forum. If I knew anyone in the US who could buy one for me, I would definitely take that option Can anybody give more information/experiences about the Terastation Pro? I heard about a Mac OS X filename issue (15 characters limitation) with the old Terastation. Has this been fixed? What other alternatives do I have? Thanks again, Andreas -- AndreasG AndreasG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4834 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
Please don't misinterpret my post. Installation and configuration was a breeze. And performance is good. This is a very slick product. It /is/ technology. There is a lot to potentially go wrong, and it has to get along with other gear. Most of the support threads on the Infrant forums show good interactions with the company and have happy endings. In most cases, the fault and the fix seem to be with associated equipment. In my case, it was the router's fault. Or more accurately, the router's wall wart's fault. Others have had issues with bad cabling, NICs, NIC drivers, etc. Just the nature of the beast. For most users, I'm guessing this is their first foray into GigE. I give Infrant credit for corralling a host of potential issues and putting out a highly usable device. And since finishing my setup and writing some robocopy scripts I've not had a single issue. --rt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
I have a 1GB Terastation connected to a SlimServer on an old EPIA Eden based machine. I want the later as I use AlienBBC an awful lot. The Terastation has been fine for me so far, speed is more than adequate. - it can happily stream to Slim server, Twonky server (for a netgear MP101) and video to a machine with no dropouts. The Pro looks better in a couple of respects - 1 it is easier to swap disks - they are caddy's whereas the non pro is a complete dismantle. The Pro also works with ADS whereas the non pro does not. Mac connectivity is fine as it is a standard SMB connection.. I do backup my data onto an external USB HDD. I have seen a massive difference in performance in backing up between choosing EXT3 and FAT. You can read the former natively under OSX, but under windows you will need an additional driver. -- poyntzj poyntzj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2628 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
You may want to spend some time reading the posts on the Bufallo forum vs. the Infrant forum. Quite a difference and it is what made me choose first the X6, then follow that up with an NV. I have had 0 issues with my units. My NV has been "up" for over 4 weeks, running SS non-stop. I do not know how to write Linux, so home-grown was not an option and I've never had my PC up for 4 weeks without a reboot (even if it is just for a security patch re-boot). My neighbor and good friend also has an NV, and his has also been trouble-free. He is running 4x500, and my HDDs are 4x300. YMMV -- Jetlag Jetlag's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1012 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
...I just realised that the prices listed for the ReadyNAS NV at the German distributor's site are *without* VAT. So this means that the empty unit costs 800 Euros, not 688. Ouch... What makes the huge price difference between the Terastation Pro and the ReadyNAS NV? Andreas -- AndreasG AndreasG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4834 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
Hi again, thanks for all your answers. I did think about DIY, too, but at the moment I have very little free time, so I decided not to go that way... Hearing about the problems of the ReadyNAS gives now me some doubt again. The whole point of buying the ReadyNAS would be to save some trouble and not having to spend time configuring it... Andreas P.S.: Can anybody say anything about the Terastation *Pro*? -- AndreasG AndreasG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4834 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
Robin Bowes Wrote: > > In the end, it's a trade off - cost vs. time invested. If you buy and > off-the-shelf NAS solution, it will likely be more expensive but you > will not have to spend much time getting it working. With a custom > solution, it will be cheaper but you'll have to spend time > building/configuring it. I've purchased two NV's and I can tell you they're definitely not plug and play nor trouble free. If I had to do it again I would definitely opt for an old PC with a RAID controller and a few hard drives rather than spend weeks troubleshooting what should be a plug-and-play device. The PC is likely a cheaper option too and you will get substantially better performance. A key issue with the ReadyNAS products is slow throughput even across gigabit ethernet. I'm still trying to solve my throughput issues:7-8kB/sec whereas the same PCs do a server to server copy at close to 6x faster than that. Infrant support is assisting, however, if you're thinking user error I'm definitely not the only one experiencing these and a host of other issues. Look carefully at the ReadyNAS forum posts before deciding on a course of action. -- egd egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
thanks again. I just read on the Infrant / ReadyNAS homepage: > > Wireless ready. > Because an ReadyNAS solution can be typically smaller and more portable > than comparable NAS, you may have a tendency to take it with you to show > off your new collection of games, music, pictures, or videos. Why carry > a cable with you and be restricted to putting the ReadyNAS close to a > switch, away from the action? Carry a USB wireless controller and cut > the cord, because with RAIDiator, the ReadyNAS can be wireless. > Sounds interesting. Andreas -- AndreasG AndreasG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4834 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
Yet another question out of curiosity: Is there any way to make such a thing wireless? You'd need a wireless bridge (eg. a SB2/3 ;-)), often sold as "Game adapter", or an access point which you can put in bridging mode. -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
...thanks for your reply Michael. Yet another question out of curiosity: Is there any way to make such a thing wireless? I know this is not practical for all uses (i.e. transferring large amounts of data), but if you only want/need music playback, wireless bandwith should be sufficient. Is it possible to connect something like an Airport Express to the NAS and then connect to it wirelessly? Andreas -- AndreasG AndreasG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4834 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
