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Looking for suggestions on setting up my ReadyNAS314, and choosing the right RAID setup
I've been using my ReadyNAS 314 for a long time now, with 4 x 3TB WD drives, in a RAID 5 configuration. Recently I started running out of space, so I bought a single 10TB drive to replace one of the ...
That's the thing, people don't. And you can't expect every user to become and want to become experts in every device they have. And that's true at every level. Even if you think you know everything, maybe one day you'll meet a storage Engineer that will explain that you're not doing it the right way. Would you like if he told you that you should have researched it first? You can't know everything and be right about everything.
Improving usability and user friendliness of a device is never a bad thing.
The ReadyNAS UI is made to be usable even without advanced knowledge in network, storage or even computing. Adding features to help users understand what's happening or will happen surely isn't a bad thing.
Also, reverting a bad setting on Samba or changing an option in a backup job is easy. But you can't go back once the volume started an expansion. I almost think it would be a good thing for the NAS to wait 10 minutes before using any newly inserted HDD while showing in the UI what will happen, so it gives the opportunity to the user to either change the settings or pull the HDD.
Improving usability and user friendliness of a device is never a bad thing.
The ReadyNAS UI is made to be usable even without advanced knowledge in network, storage or even computing. Adding features to help users understand what's happening or will happen surely isn't a bad thing.
Also, reverting a bad setting on Samba or changing an option in a backup job is easy. But you can't go back once the volume started an expansion. I almost think it would be a good thing for the NAS to wait 10 minutes before using any newly inserted HDD while showing in the UI what will happen, so it gives the opportunity to the user to either change the settings or pull the HDD.
jak0lantash wrote:
I almost think it would be a good thing for the NAS to wait 10 minutes before using any newly inserted HDD while showing in the UI what will happen, so it gives the opportunity to the user to either change the settings or pull the HDD.
That's similar to my built-in expansion planner tool idea. Not sure you need a 10 minute window, it'd probably be better to wait for the user to see the result and then confirm the expansion.
jak0lantash wrote:
And you can't expect every user to become and want to become experts in every device they have
Yes I agree. Plenty of users stumble on this, and that should be enough to indicate that the UI could use some work in this area.
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