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reburns
Jul 06, 2015Aspirant
UPS recommendation for two NAS's: Pro Pioneer 6 and RN316
Hello, I have two units in the same area for my home office: ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer 6 running 4.2.27 ReadyNAS RN316 running 6.2.4 I need a new UPS and am wondering the best choice. I am wonderin...
reburns
Jul 28, 2015Aspirant
Update:
I went the easiest route for now on the UPS's: replaced the batteries on my old, pure-sine SUA1000 UPS for $60. That unit has some surge protection, so I'm running directly from that. I have the UPS plugged into the RN316 vis USB and then the Pro Pioneer 6 monitoring the IP address of the RN316. I very much stumbled around with the settings and that's what I could get to work. I'm not sure why but I do get relatively frequent "UPS communication error" messages from the Pro Pioneer. ??? Any ideas? Below are two screenshots of the setup.
I bought a more effective surge protector to use to protect my home TV & stereo from SurgeX. I went around with tech support and bought a SX-DS-156... I had thought that space was an issue but in reality it is not and I'd consider the SA-966 if I need another (i.e. to plug in the SUA1000 for real protection).
For broadband cable I installed: L-Com AL-FFFF-9 (cheap)
And for the main breaker box: Eaton CHSPT2ULTRA (cheap enough)
For CAT6 lines: L-Com RMSP-CAT6T-12 (not cheap)
Also because some CAT6 lines run outside the house between floors, I added a second CAT6 surge supressor at the far end I added a APC PRM4/PNETR6 because I got one cheap...
Here's the UPS settings for the two ReadyNAS units:
StephenB
Jul 28, 2015Guru - Experienced User
Are you also connecting the switch (or router) to the shared UPS? If not, you need to do that - otherwise when the power fails for real, the pro won't get the message.
I am thinking your power schedules are a possible cause. Are these messages happening around the scheduled shutdown or startup time?
Another thing to try is to temporarily disable disk spondown on the RN316.
What firmware are you running on the two NAS?
- reburnsJul 28, 2015Aspirant
*Everything* powered by the UPS: modem, router, network switch and the two NAS units.
I think both units are running the latest firmware: Pro Pioneer: RAIDiator 4.2.27 and RN316: Firmware 6.2.4
I'll experiment with turning off power scheduling and disk spindown on both units.
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