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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...
mdgm wrote: What model drive was this?
Western Digital Caviar Green 3 TB SATA III 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD30EZRX
I documented the issue(s) I ran into on the Forum as it played out. Rightfully or wrongly the HCL presents a large reflection of ReadyNAS. Some what repeating myself... When I started to go down the NAS path my business was ReadyNAS' to lose. Simply from my past impressions. As I started to research current offerings I saw other manufacturers recommended higher and overall found them to be more up-to-date. Once again repeating myself... such as supporting roughly 5 times the number of drives.
Frankly, after the couple weeks I spent resolving drive issues (for a drive that was once on the list) I have zero interest in using one that isn't. I can just see as I add that fourth drive a year from now the entire array blowing up. :) Why would one want to risk such when there are clearly alternatives.
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