ReadyNAS Device Compatibility List

Plugged in Brother HL-2040 USB printer to my NV
Worked perfectly straight away.

Ahh, the joys of good quality gear. :D

madfiddler wrote:
No problems with an Epson Stylus Photo R320

I'd better note, that whilst the printer works through the NV the Epson Status Monitor software does not.

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Not sure if this is the right thread to post this, but my ol' HP 940C printer worked with my NV+. I had to supply the driver on the computer itself (instead of being available on the NV+), but I was pleased to see that it worked nonetheless.

madfiddler wrote:
I've now got two Netgear GS105 (giga) switches on the network... everything appears to be working fine...

Very peculiar... I've had two Netgear GS105v2 switches, neither worked. Both failed with similar symptoms: reading from NV is *very* slow (0..1 MB/s). I assume cabling is fine, since direct connection works as expected. Can't be anything wrong with NICs - they're both Intel Pro/1000 - right?

The second one is still sitting on my desk - I'll return it just like the first one and swear never to touch Netgear products again.

A year ago when I bought my X6, I put in 3 WD400YR drives. I was happy with their performance, so when I needed more space, I ordered the same RE2 family from NewEgg, the WD500YS, without even a thought (stupid, I know). After some issues with the new drive failing, I belatedly checked the Infrant website only to learn:

* Western Digital JS/KS/YD/YS - These models of Western Digital disks may return inaccurate temperature causing intermittent warnings and possible forced shutdowns, and we cannot recommend these disks at this time. In addition, the YS model does not support the Secure Erase command which is required for X-RAID expansion. * Western Digital YS - The YS series is known to drop out from RAID sets intermittently. Western Digital has posted a firmware update that fixes this, although it has not yet been verified by Infrant. Please see Western Digital YS Warning.

I have updated the firmware, but I still have the problem that the YS drives don't support Secure Erase.

I'm assume that this is a critical problem & I'll have to replace my new drive. But before going through that I wanted to ask if Secure Erase is required or if it is just a security measure that (as a home user) I don't need to worry about.

If you have the latest 3.01c1-p6 firmware, we'll get around the Secure Erase problem.

Yoda, thanks for your quick response:

If you have the latest 3.01c1-p6 firmware, we'll get around the Secure Erase problem.

Just to confirm, I can go ahead and use my WD500YS with the WD's updated firmware as long as I am running firmware 3.01c1-p6 (or later, I assume) on my RAID?

By your response, "we'll get around the Secure Erase problem", I take it that by not having Secure Erase support, my X6 will be slower when doing a X-RAID expansion. Will day to day usage (read/write) performance be effected as well?

srsamms wrote:
Yoda, thanks for your quick response: If you have the latest 3.01c1-p6 firmware, we'll get around the Secure Erase problem. Just to confirm, I can go ahead and use my WD500YS with the WD's updated firmware as long as I am running firmware 3.01c1-p6 (or later, I assume) on my RAID?

Yes, that should work. Please do keep in mind that our QA has not blessed this drive with new firmware yet.

By your response, "we'll get around the Secure Erase problem", I take it that by not having Secure Erase support, my X6 will be slower when doing a X-RAID expansion. Will day to day usage (read/write) performance be effected as well?

It'll be slower only during the initialization phase of the expansion.

I have two product compatibility questions for the NV+

1- Patriot 1GB SODIMM memory module model PSD21G6672S. Is this compatible with the NV+?

2- DLink DIR-655 Router/switch and DLink DGS-2208 Switch - any issues here with the NV+?

Thank you!

SteinyD wrote:
I have two product compatibility questions for the NV+ 1- Patriot 1GB SODIMM memory module model PSD21G6672S. Is this compatible with the NV+?

If it's not in the hardware compatibility list, then it'll be up to you to check it with the built-in memory test. Typically if it passes 3 times in succession, you're probably OK.

2- DLink DIR-655 Router/switch and DLink DGS-2208 Switch - any issues here with the NV+? Thank you!

There hasn't been any report of incompatibility with the DIR-655, however, our lab did find slowness in 10/100 mode with the DGS-2208 (works fine in gigE though) -- this is noted in the HCL.