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"OS6" - a question or three
First, a direct question: I'm currently running my Pro BE's with 5 or 6 disks using "x-raid2" and "dual redundancy." (RAID6 with the xraid2 expansion scheme.) I downloaded the manual for one of...
I think that if you call tech support they may be able to migrate the data to a new NAS model if you put the unit in tech support mode. Not totally sure about that so you might as well ask them directly but if this is true this may have some importance on your choice I guess. Of course I will always advise a factory reset when possible.
You should also know that a major version is on its way. We don't know what will be in it (except for disk spin down) but we know that it should appear soon (apparently there won't be 6.1.10 unless there are security threats between the 6.1.9 release (actually RC11) and the 6.2.0, I believe this would put 6.2.0 to the end of the year or the beginning of the new one, no official date though). I would advise to wait till then before making a choice if this is possible. You will then have the complete list of the new functions and you will know what to do then.
I also believe that Netgear has another OS called readyDATA. Maybe a version over a ZFS filesystem would be a better fit ? This actually is the version that is aimed towards professionals, so you may have less eyecandy and more NAS professional features in it. I don't know much about it though.
I know that scheduled defrag / scrub has been asked (as a matter of fact, I sent a shopping list to Netgear before my 3 months chat ended and this was on it ;) I was told this was transmitted but have no idea if they will implement it or not and has you said we shouldn't count on it).
As for speed higher end desktop models have 10Gbit Ethernet and xeon CPU with 16Gb ram... Haven't had a look to rack models but I'm pretty sure they are also packed with lots of good things.
@stephen, ok, I may give it a go before updating to 6.2.0 (I plan to factory reset after the update anyway)
You should also know that a major version is on its way. We don't know what will be in it (except for disk spin down) but we know that it should appear soon (apparently there won't be 6.1.10 unless there are security threats between the 6.1.9 release (actually RC11) and the 6.2.0, I believe this would put 6.2.0 to the end of the year or the beginning of the new one, no official date though). I would advise to wait till then before making a choice if this is possible. You will then have the complete list of the new functions and you will know what to do then.
I also believe that Netgear has another OS called readyDATA. Maybe a version over a ZFS filesystem would be a better fit ? This actually is the version that is aimed towards professionals, so you may have less eyecandy and more NAS professional features in it. I don't know much about it though.
I know that scheduled defrag / scrub has been asked (as a matter of fact, I sent a shopping list to Netgear before my 3 months chat ended and this was on it ;) I was told this was transmitted but have no idea if they will implement it or not and has you said we shouldn't count on it).
As for speed higher end desktop models have 10Gbit Ethernet and xeon CPU with 16Gb ram... Haven't had a look to rack models but I'm pretty sure they are also packed with lots of good things.
@stephen, ok, I may give it a go before updating to 6.2.0 (I plan to factory reset after the update anyway)
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