My ReadyNAS Story . . .

Chris-Boston wrote:
Latest and greatest, first thing I did last week was update the firmware.

Hi Chris,
thanks to your posts, I am embarking on a very similar path, I've just bought a new ReadyNAS Pro 2 ( the 5 year warranty swung it for me) and I inserted 2 x 3TB drives which will be configured with X-Raid2, I am going to place it out of the way, as I have Cat6 all over the house, so I don't have to worry about the fans.

the first thing for me is getting Squeezebox up and running on the Pro, I have six Squeezebox Duets around the house, the Pro 2 is my replacement for a very old ReadNAS 1000 ( Sparc rackmount with 4 drives) , once I have the music library singing I need to turn my attention to Plex for video playback to a Samsung LCD ( which I have not bought yet, but I have heard they play nicely with DLNA and Plex ) . It would be nice to eventually upgrade all the TV's in the house to Samsung, so I can move from room to room and still watch the video without too much interruption.

the backup software, I'm going to try the Acronis 10 ( 90 day trial ) and see how that goes before I make my mind up on that one, I don't need tarsnap, just something local, as all my important stuff is also copied to my laptop, to a 1TB USB drive at work, and another in the car, to lose all 3 copies would be really unlucky, plus now I will have a 4th copy on the Pro 2 :-)

cheers
Peter