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ReadyNAS 314 - a year of hell and now lost 10years of data!
I bought a ReadyNAS 314 when they were new in the market back in April 2013. I bought it partly because I wanted to safeguard my increasing data storage with redundancy in case of disk failure, and al...
I take the above replies on board, and am well aware that backups are the ultimate solution.
But having spent 9 years (potentially pushing it) and never having any of this data fail due to a disk going down. I find it incredible that when I spend thousands on a solution within a year it is all potentially lost. Strangely the JBOD that it was on before have not failed and still operate to this day!
Ergo, spend a lot = lose data. Do nothing = data would still be safe.
Yes I know that is not the correct outlook. But in reality it is the case!
I'm sure there will be plenty of "you should have made a backup" replies to this. As I have given this advice plenty of times myself.
I have no economical way of taking an offsite backup of this data. Wihtout doubling up the outlay, which looking at it would be about as much use as a chocolate fireguard anyway as there could be a disk error there and in imminent failure too!
So, without spending the thousands I did on this cr@p I probably could have got a subscription to online storage which would have rectified this problem easily if a disk had failed.
However, when you go from a "potentially lose it all" situation, to a "sold because your data is safer" situation, you don't expect to lose it all pretty damn quickly!
What strikes me is the speed that 2 disks can fail (in this case les than 45mins!)
Even if I was onsite at the time it would have skipped me as I would have been asleep as it happened at 01:07am, so really can anyone justify the expense wasted on this?
I would have been better off with a single big disk, and an online backup... I'd still have my data (even if the disk had failed), wouldn't have spent anything like as much, and wouldn't have spent a year testing an incomplete product for Netgear!
Come on Netgear - let me know your thoughts?
Doesn't seem to be a well rated product by it's users wherever you look...
But having spent 9 years (potentially pushing it) and never having any of this data fail due to a disk going down. I find it incredible that when I spend thousands on a solution within a year it is all potentially lost. Strangely the JBOD that it was on before have not failed and still operate to this day!
Ergo, spend a lot = lose data. Do nothing = data would still be safe.
Yes I know that is not the correct outlook. But in reality it is the case!
I'm sure there will be plenty of "you should have made a backup" replies to this. As I have given this advice plenty of times myself.
I have no economical way of taking an offsite backup of this data. Wihtout doubling up the outlay, which looking at it would be about as much use as a chocolate fireguard anyway as there could be a disk error there and in imminent failure too!
So, without spending the thousands I did on this cr@p I probably could have got a subscription to online storage which would have rectified this problem easily if a disk had failed.
However, when you go from a "potentially lose it all" situation, to a "sold because your data is safer" situation, you don't expect to lose it all pretty damn quickly!
What strikes me is the speed that 2 disks can fail (in this case les than 45mins!)
Even if I was onsite at the time it would have skipped me as I would have been asleep as it happened at 01:07am, so really can anyone justify the expense wasted on this?
I would have been better off with a single big disk, and an online backup... I'd still have my data (even if the disk had failed), wouldn't have spent anything like as much, and wouldn't have spent a year testing an incomplete product for Netgear!
Come on Netgear - let me know your thoughts?
Doesn't seem to be a well rated product by it's users wherever you look...
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