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Help! Repeating RAM Error
Hello, I own an NV+. It had been acting finicky for a few weeks (shutting itself off after a few hours of uptime) and eventually (after a memory test that it never finished) stopped booting, coming...
Thanks for your reply mdgm.
I went ahead and tried some RAM that had been recently removed from another ReadyNAS that I found on Craigslist. It didn't work. Now that two modules have failed, I think I can be sure that there's an issue with the socket and/or motherboard. I contacted tech support, but my devise is longer under warranty as it was purchased in February of '07, so they can't really do anything to help me.
At this point I'm just looking for some general advice from folks who have a lot of experience managing large amounts of data; shifting it around, etc. I'm going to go ahead and ask intentionally basic questions.
As I see it, I have to replace the unit, but I'd prefer to take this opportunity and upgrade to an Ultra, NVX (as I read they're quieter and faster), or maybe even a Promise Pegasus. But, I understand that, unfortunately, it'd have to be another NV+ if I am to just swap the discs into a new NAS.
I do have a backup, but I have yet to figure out how current it is (this is a bit of a pain because it's formatted with ext3 and I keep my linux machine at work). I tried to run one as my NAS was starting to act up and am not sure if it took.
The good news is that I have access to a ReadyNAS NV+ at work in the evening--but I really don't want to take any risks with it. Would it be smart to just swap out its disk trays for my personal ones and copy everything onto another disk via USB....so if I do upgrade to a new NAS, I can easily copy my files onto it? If I'm dealing with about 1TB, is this something that's going to take 14 hrs, or can I get it done pretty quickly if I enable fast USB writing? Any tips or warnings here?, from transporting my personal disks to copying the data off the NAS.
As for upgrading, is the NVX a good bet? I always found the NV+ a little slow (even with a gig of RAM).
I went ahead and tried some RAM that had been recently removed from another ReadyNAS that I found on Craigslist. It didn't work. Now that two modules have failed, I think I can be sure that there's an issue with the socket and/or motherboard. I contacted tech support, but my devise is longer under warranty as it was purchased in February of '07, so they can't really do anything to help me.
At this point I'm just looking for some general advice from folks who have a lot of experience managing large amounts of data; shifting it around, etc. I'm going to go ahead and ask intentionally basic questions.
As I see it, I have to replace the unit, but I'd prefer to take this opportunity and upgrade to an Ultra, NVX (as I read they're quieter and faster), or maybe even a Promise Pegasus. But, I understand that, unfortunately, it'd have to be another NV+ if I am to just swap the discs into a new NAS.
I do have a backup, but I have yet to figure out how current it is (this is a bit of a pain because it's formatted with ext3 and I keep my linux machine at work). I tried to run one as my NAS was starting to act up and am not sure if it took.
The good news is that I have access to a ReadyNAS NV+ at work in the evening--but I really don't want to take any risks with it. Would it be smart to just swap out its disk trays for my personal ones and copy everything onto another disk via USB....so if I do upgrade to a new NAS, I can easily copy my files onto it? If I'm dealing with about 1TB, is this something that's going to take 14 hrs, or can I get it done pretty quickly if I enable fast USB writing? Any tips or warnings here?, from transporting my personal disks to copying the data off the NAS.
As for upgrading, is the NVX a good bet? I always found the NV+ a little slow (even with a gig of RAM).
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