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My ReadyNAS Story . . .
Day 1... After a month going back and forth between manufacturers, and then finally between the Pro 2, 4, and 6, I order the 6 from Amazon on Tuesday along with two Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA...
One Week In . . .
I promise this isn't going to be a regular thing, just an excited NAS-Newbie :wiggle:
The unit froze on me, which I wasn't too excited about one week in, but I have been throwing at a lot at it. Long Story: Three or so days ago I walked over to it and hit the power button so that the little display would pop up and tell me how much of my 1.8 GB was in use and nothing happened. So I pushed it again (expecting the "Press Pwr again ..." msg), but nothing. Fan was running normal speed, not oddly hot, no weird noises, just nothing coming up on the display. I hit the backup button - I have no idea why - and obviously nothing happened their either. Went over to my laptop and pinged it (by IP), no response - also no connection over https or ssh. I gave it 4-5 hours or so and still nothing so I hit the power switch. Thankfully it came right back online and did a resync. I checked the health screen and everything was on the up and up. Looked in the logs and it didn't note anything bad happening... however it did throw the message about how to setup the backup job from about the time I hit the button. So, it seems the OS continue to run it just wasn't on the network? I wonder if I pulled the cable and put it back if it would have reconnected - who knows.
For future reference, since it does appear that it continued to run, is there a "soft reset" - something that just makes the OS reboot?
Other than that, Plex has been great. I got all my movies finally copied over and I've watched a couple on my mobile just because I could. I put my MP3s up there, too, and since I buy almost all of mine from Amazon, they're all DRM free and play without any issue, even over 3G from work. That said, I don't really like Plex as a music interface, so I'll probably just stick with keeping them local and in the Amazon Cloud. I've started to move my pictures over into Plex, too, and like the music, not a perfect interface, but not terrible either. I keep recent photos on my phone itself so I can share, so I'll probably continue keeping recent stuff local and the rest up on the NAS for somewhat easy access.
Finally, I implemented tarsnap as a backup solution. I even documented it here as a thank you to everyone who has helped along the way with my decision to purchase the ReadyNAS and help getting it setup. I'm a developer and ex-linux-wannabe-geek by hobby, so I'm thinking of trying my hand at making an addon for this if someone doesn't beat me to it and it's OK with the service provider. For things that aren't private, I let tarsnap just encrypt the data and upload to S3 since they seem to have a strong handle on encryption (at least of what I know about it). For financial documents, tax returns, etc., I store them in a TrueCrypt volume that I then upload, for that little bit of extra protection.
I promise this isn't going to be a regular thing, just an excited NAS-Newbie :wiggle:
The unit froze on me, which I wasn't too excited about one week in, but I have been throwing at a lot at it. Long Story: Three or so days ago I walked over to it and hit the power button so that the little display would pop up and tell me how much of my 1.8 GB was in use and nothing happened. So I pushed it again (expecting the "Press Pwr again ..." msg), but nothing. Fan was running normal speed, not oddly hot, no weird noises, just nothing coming up on the display. I hit the backup button - I have no idea why - and obviously nothing happened their either. Went over to my laptop and pinged it (by IP), no response - also no connection over https or ssh. I gave it 4-5 hours or so and still nothing so I hit the power switch. Thankfully it came right back online and did a resync. I checked the health screen and everything was on the up and up. Looked in the logs and it didn't note anything bad happening... however it did throw the message about how to setup the backup job from about the time I hit the button. So, it seems the OS continue to run it just wasn't on the network? I wonder if I pulled the cable and put it back if it would have reconnected - who knows.
For future reference, since it does appear that it continued to run, is there a "soft reset" - something that just makes the OS reboot?
Other than that, Plex has been great. I got all my movies finally copied over and I've watched a couple on my mobile just because I could. I put my MP3s up there, too, and since I buy almost all of mine from Amazon, they're all DRM free and play without any issue, even over 3G from work. That said, I don't really like Plex as a music interface, so I'll probably just stick with keeping them local and in the Amazon Cloud. I've started to move my pictures over into Plex, too, and like the music, not a perfect interface, but not terrible either. I keep recent photos on my phone itself so I can share, so I'll probably continue keeping recent stuff local and the rest up on the NAS for somewhat easy access.
Finally, I implemented tarsnap as a backup solution. I even documented it here as a thank you to everyone who has helped along the way with my decision to purchase the ReadyNAS and help getting it setup. I'm a developer and ex-linux-wannabe-geek by hobby, so I'm thinking of trying my hand at making an addon for this if someone doesn't beat me to it and it's OK with the service provider. For things that aren't private, I let tarsnap just encrypt the data and upload to S3 since they seem to have a strong handle on encryption (at least of what I know about it). For financial documents, tax returns, etc., I store them in a TrueCrypt volume that I then upload, for that little bit of extra protection.
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