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ReadyNAS 1100 Unsatisfactory
I only recently learned how it felt to configure my ReadyNAS 1100's, because previously my sys-admin had been the one doing the work. We invested in 2 ReadyNAS 1100 units a couple of years ago. One...
Hi mdgm, I didn't see your reply before posting my followup.
I never got an alert about anything besides the fact that there was an update available. Trust me, any alerts about drive / NAS problems would have been dealt with immediately, the NAS was storing months of valuable backups from an Oracle database.
I didn't realize the Sparc version was so much slower. Now that I've had a bad experience, I am not sure whether to put these back into production, or just sell them. The purpose of using such a product is for low overhead maintenance, and everytime I've tried to fiddle with the RAID setup on these, it has resulted in a brick wall.
It seems that RAIDar starts out with an initial RAID build that could go for 10hrs+ and I cannot interrupt it to build a 3 drive RAID 5 + hot spare.
I definitely do not want a 4-drive RAID 5 because the failure I mentioned cost me a lot of time and money. It is not so much space that I need, but redundancy. That is why I prefer 2 RAID-1s or RAID 5 + spare. I just cannot seem to get there.
I never got an alert about anything besides the fact that there was an update available. Trust me, any alerts about drive / NAS problems would have been dealt with immediately, the NAS was storing months of valuable backups from an Oracle database.
I didn't realize the Sparc version was so much slower. Now that I've had a bad experience, I am not sure whether to put these back into production, or just sell them. The purpose of using such a product is for low overhead maintenance, and everytime I've tried to fiddle with the RAID setup on these, it has resulted in a brick wall.
It seems that RAIDar starts out with an initial RAID build that could go for 10hrs+ and I cannot interrupt it to build a 3 drive RAID 5 + hot spare.
I definitely do not want a 4-drive RAID 5 because the failure I mentioned cost me a lot of time and money. It is not so much space that I need, but redundancy. That is why I prefer 2 RAID-1s or RAID 5 + spare. I just cannot seem to get there.
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