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ReadyNAS State of Union?
Over the years I have always wanted to play around/use one of the ReadyNAS units. Everything I read about them sounded great and over at AVSForum a ReadyNAS employee ran a power buy and offered suppor...
The HCL either needs to be updated more often or retired - it isn't particularly useful to see which drives worked last year.
Here is a solution - write an add-on that aggressively phones home to Netgear with drive stats, errors, crash-dumps, logs and anything else that is useful to the developers and I'll run it on the twenty or so ReadyNAS's I have access to. I'm sure there are quite a few others that would do the same. I've got 500GB drives on the low end and 4TB drives on the high end and maybe half are on the HCL but they are all running in a RN somewhere. If you get enough auto-responses back that lead you to believe the drive is functional make a new list and populate it with the data you get back. Essentially, leverage your user base for hardware testing. While failures may be hard on some they are most probably going to be using and failing drives anyway given the state of the current HCL. When you get data back that indicates an incompatibility buy one and determine what you can do to mitigate the failure.
This works for memory, USB and network UPS's and printers too.
Anyone else willing to grant that much visibility into their home or business storage device for the betterment of the community?
Here is a solution - write an add-on that aggressively phones home to Netgear with drive stats, errors, crash-dumps, logs and anything else that is useful to the developers and I'll run it on the twenty or so ReadyNAS's I have access to. I'm sure there are quite a few others that would do the same. I've got 500GB drives on the low end and 4TB drives on the high end and maybe half are on the HCL but they are all running in a RN somewhere. If you get enough auto-responses back that lead you to believe the drive is functional make a new list and populate it with the data you get back. Essentially, leverage your user base for hardware testing. While failures may be hard on some they are most probably going to be using and failing drives anyway given the state of the current HCL. When you get data back that indicates an incompatibility buy one and determine what you can do to mitigate the failure.
This works for memory, USB and network UPS's and printers too.
Anyone else willing to grant that much visibility into their home or business storage device for the betterment of the community?
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