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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...
For what it's worth I ended my ReadyNAS adventure. WOL never worked and after going through my initial hard drive issues I came to find out the replacement (which was listed on the HCL) needs a certain firmware revision to be supported. Of course this was only posted several months after the drive was placed on the list (without any notes).
I ended up throwing my data on a PC I'm using for Windows Media Center (OTA DVRing). Certainly there are a few disadvantages but at least I don't have to worry about my drives not being supported down the road or any data corruption from drives that really aren't supported even though they are listed as such... at least for the moment.
Fry's continues to blow them out the door (DUO v2 $105 (with rebate)) but I'm going to resist for now. If drive prices ever drop (to any degree) I'll take another look and see how things are going...
I ended up throwing my data on a PC I'm using for Windows Media Center (OTA DVRing). Certainly there are a few disadvantages but at least I don't have to worry about my drives not being supported down the road or any data corruption from drives that really aren't supported even though they are listed as such... at least for the moment.
Fry's continues to blow them out the door (DUO v2 $105 (with rebate)) but I'm going to resist for now. If drive prices ever drop (to any degree) I'll take another look and see how things are going...
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