readynas observations

I recently bought a readynas to use as slow storage on my network for 16TB as opposed to faster storage on my 3ware hware raid6 card which can squeak out close to 1TB/sec. Having read all kinds of things about slow cpu,lack of memory etc i was keen to get my hands on one and see how it felt. Im actually rather impressed and think on the whole netgear have done a good job. Naturally after patching it, i decided to ssh in and have a play before really using it. I found it was quite amenable to modifications having built a linux toolchain on it that supports hardening ala gentoo ( i couldnt be asked to use cpu resources to cross-build it...). So its nice to know its customisable in the future when netgear stop supporting it. Anyway after playing around...i factory reset it. installed the other disks, and set to adding it to my domain controller with the active directory accounts which is nice since it now sits at nas.domainname.local with a nice cert on it from my certificate services. Its double nat (i dont want external access) to the outside world so sometimes it likes to abort installing apps. I agree with the comments readynasd is a bit enthusiastic in its cpu use, and some of the features run obsessively despite not being needed like x-drive checking for more drives.... and the attempts at downloads sometimes run every hour for AV or firmware upgrades but on the whole it does just what i want. Oh one thing i am curious about on my box SATA 4 is LED 1 , and LED 4 is SATA1 oddly enough!!!.... maybe someone in the factory wired it round the wrong way...

i'll try to add my twopennys worth from time to time. all the best

Bunny