Just ordered 3 drives from newegg. They will be here thursday.
quote:one of the things I noticed is that it seems to have a lot of pro level feature just beneath the surface, but the interface and help manual don't provide any instruction on how to use them.
Just posted my review for the RN104! I'd say all in all it is what I would expect from a black box home NAS solution. Great for the average user and for its price point.
quote:it always shows up in finder, but it is iffy whether or not it connects.
What do you mean by connectivity issues? My wife's Macbook Pro is connecting just fine.
I had to manually add it as a share drive since the "Finder" didn't find it, but it has worked flawlessly since then
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I wish OSX had a "map network device" function similar to Windows.
quote:oh nice, thanks.
OSX does...
http://osxdaily.com/2010/09/20/map-a-network-drive-on-a-mac/
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I'll entertain reasonable offers on the 1tb while I decide if I want to go with the new deal that was posted.
quote:Where are you located? I may be interested if someone is willing to part with one in DFW.
I'll entertain reasonable offers on the 1tb while I decide if I want to go with the new deal that was posted.
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Just got an email to test this guy!
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Just got an email to test this guy!
Me too
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I have submitted 3 responses to the survey and have not received 1 email at all. Not even acknowledging that I responded to the original survey. The survey said I would receive an email shortly.
Still nothing... Disappointed.
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I finally picked up a second 1TB WD Red NAS disk
I popped it in and the NAS is setting it up into a RAID1 configuration right now. If I've heard correctly though I have to wait until this is done, then manually switch it over to a RAID0.
quote:If you don't care at all about redundancy, and all you care about is capacity and performance, RAID0 is the way to go. There's little hope of recovery if a drive fails, but if you have everything adequately backed up elsewhere, you may not care about that.quote:
I finally picked up a second 1TB WD Red NAS disk
I popped it in and the NAS is setting it up into a RAID1 configuration right now. If I've heard correctly though I have to wait until this is done, then manually switch it over to a RAID0.
Why do you want to use RAID0?
quote:right now I only have 2 drives, so the speed is more important. I don't care much about redundancy at this moment, because it's mostly used to store movies and music.quote:
I finally picked up a second 1TB WD Red NAS disk
I popped it in and the NAS is setting it up into a RAID1 configuration right now. If I've heard correctly though I have to wait until this is done, then manually switch it over to a RAID0.
Why do you want to use RAID0?
quote:that article applies to using 1 disk to protect 6 other in a 7 disk array.
Another point about RAID 5 or 6 being or becoming pointless can be found in the following article. It lays out the mathematics of how at a certain capacity threshold a lost disk will probably result in an array failure due to the probability of a URE during the rebuild. Of course this applies mainly if you are hitting 12TB or more capacity.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162
ETA: WD Red drives do indeed specify 10^14 URE rate.