More on CPU specs of the ReadyNAS Pro

mdgm wrote:
Different users have different needs. Choose the capacity that's right for you.

It isn't a capacity issue, SATA-300 devices are reverse-compatible with SATA150 busses,
but sadly (Confirmed on many tech sites) SATA-600 drives flubble on SATA-150 busses,
they reverse-comply often to unrealistic buss speeeds sadly, and suffer
(NetGear COULD firmware this problem a bit though / retain SATA-300 speed).

Not a good idea on a RAID-Enabled network solution,
as people have refered to this list with failure !

They are designed to, and mean to play on them,
but are proving to be oddly slow compared to native drives.
(I suspect architecture compliance, and an algorithm issue).

The very fact that (again, not a max addressability issue)
there is no build-specific way to address critical update data


So knowing the interface is much more important then selecting capacity overall.

Lets face it, older drives speaking (what was) current speak-ology
work best on their current adddressabilty and their legacy buss.



I (only) know some 2-TB drives listed (Business Edition )are received well without issues,
and 3-TB platters seem fine when introduced, but fail upon filling them above ~1.85-TB.

mdgm wrote:
Currently I have 6x1.5TB disks and I'm using X-RAID2 dual-redundancy which gives me about 5.4TB of space.

Is your device a native -100 or -200 device please ?
(Sorry, reading a day or two would yield this info too...)


Again, I wanted someone to reply with confirmed 2-TB drives,
as most 3-TB are to far ahead the spec-wavr for a -100 unit.

But that they (NetGear) transitioned poorly with mixed hardware content
(like my -100 board with newer 16-pin VGA ports, and additional jacks)
makes my newest/bestist HDD not such a clear path for me...

Is that (Pro Business) list for a board with (ancient) 12-pin VGA ports,
or my transitional 16 -1 pinout later board that was re-firmware'd -200 ?


This has been one of the weakest points in the release of all these models,
and I am now sure the "Scripted" info (from the board manufacture) is in error
for the staff that answer the support phone daily sadly.

Most other manufacturers of computer product in the consumer division
are at least database'd into "build's" by exact serial number to prevent the
downloading of incorrect drivers and introduction of incompatible hardware.

This leaves me back at the point I was trying to make.

No one can tell me what I have, even the re-distibuter (NetGear)
of a device that is clearly made outside of our country (USA)
then sold in the USA causing these support staff being uninformed.

This seems like a rant, and possibly anti-NetGear in basis,
but I feel bad for the support staff that has no idead what
what we were shipped to all of us by the retail re-sellers.

As emaple (All I want is):

1 - What exact board (maker/model) do I own,
what is the maximum bios level for the model tier ?

2 - what is the exact data/app-load on this system ?

3 - What exact HCL (as they put different MB in the -100 line...) do I use ?

3 - how can they (during warranty calls) determine if parts are available ?

There are many more questions,
but those are core questions asked,
and are never NetGear answered due to
being (propritoty) info (they say....

I'll rip it apart, I'll know with certainty,
but this IS NOT the consumers job,
only a serial should be needed.