Not a good start with the Duo V2

PapaBear wrote:

You should have posted about the screws earlier, as the Jedi many times will send out packets of screws. Of course sometimes the gremlins seem to find inventive places to hide the screws. Sometimes they are in a packet in the bottom of the box, sometimes taped to the inside bottom of one of the trays (my NV+ 4 1/2 years ago) and sometimes included in the packet with the warranty card and install CD (my two NVX units 1 1/2 years ago). There have been some documented cases of external drives displaying incompatibilities with ReadyNAS system even on the USB2 ports. It would help if you find the same situation on the replacement chassis, to post back with the drive make and model. That post should also be in the Hardware and Hardware Compatibility forum.

Wish I would have known about the Jedi then. Yeah I made sure to triple check all the Styrofoam and other packaging before calling. I bought a scanner last year and thougt I only had a European power supply until I looked in a hole in the bottom of the foam packing. I will definitely update the HCL with my findings, good and/or bad.

mdgm wrote:
Please also update to RAIDiator 5.3.2 before testing USB speeds. If you get a diskless unit and connect it to your network, put one or more disks in it and then turn it on, it should automatically download the latest firmware and give you a clean setup on that. What filesystems have you tried? I would suggest trying both NTFS and EXT3

First thing I did was update to 5.3.2. I have a ton of drive screws so I used a few to set up one drive just to test things out initially. They don't fit flush with the module so I'd prefer the intended hardware. I went back to factory settings a few times too. My USB 3.0 hub or some snag caused USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices to not be recognized and/or disconnect and not re-establish connections on any ports early on. After that I went into the diagnostic tool from Seagate and changed the disk time out to hours instead of 15 minutes. I also removed the USB 3.0 hub and no more disconnects just pathetic speeds. I have only tried NTFS so far. I will try EXT3 in a few. Page 69 of the software manual for 5.3 of the DUO V2 explicitly states that only Fat32 and NTFS can be used on external drives so I didn't try. I saw some folks posting about success with Ext4 too but information on those things on the Duo V2 is limited.

It's not an entirely negative experience though. I love the form factor and hardware. Time Machine support is nice. Unfortunately I will have to wait for Twonky since my Sony's DLNA support is butchered. ReadyDLNA works with everything else (phones and tablets) nicely. I just happen to have solutions for these other services in place already. I guess as I feel more comfortable about update timelines I will feel better. I'm fairly certain the WD drives I'll be adding internally will get 70-85MB/s over Gigabit Ethernet. The Seagate 5400rpm SATA I with maybe a 8mb cache I'm testing with does 60MB/s.