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Which drives to get for new ReadyNas?
So I need a new NAS. This is going to be expensive... TL:DR at bottom of post A bit of background info first. I have an NVX Business edition that I've had for a little over 2 years. I got it wit...
Right. Just got a new NV+. Starting to regret it already...
Ended up getting the Seagate Barracuda XT drives, since the Ultrastar drives shot up in price before I could get them. Seems like they are working fine. Not so much for the NV+.
After setting everything up, testing the memory, syncing the drives and making every setting as close to the other NV+ I have as possible, I ran the update that the thing was nagging so much about. Now it's on 4.1.7, and going poorly. I have some shares on my old NV+ that I wanted to back up first, before getting to the NVX. Call it a test.
It failed. Miserably.
Right before updating to 4.1.7 I tested the built-in backup without any problems. Grabbed a small share with ISO files with ease from my old NV+. After the update, I went in and tried to modify the old backup job to point to a different share. Should be easy, right? Well, no matter what I did, it refused to connect. Cancelling out and reloading the original backup job still wouldn't let me connect to the old NV+. Both of them are accessible from my windows machine, but the new NV+ refuses to see the old one anymore. Tried every permutation possible for how to write out the path string, to no avail.
Testing from the old NV+ to the new one still works. The old one is on 4.1.6 though. So apparently the 4.1.7 update broke the backup service.
At this point I can't even trust a brand new NAS to handle a backup job. This is getting ridiculous.
Ended up getting the Seagate Barracuda XT drives, since the Ultrastar drives shot up in price before I could get them. Seems like they are working fine. Not so much for the NV+.
After setting everything up, testing the memory, syncing the drives and making every setting as close to the other NV+ I have as possible, I ran the update that the thing was nagging so much about. Now it's on 4.1.7, and going poorly. I have some shares on my old NV+ that I wanted to back up first, before getting to the NVX. Call it a test.
It failed. Miserably.
Right before updating to 4.1.7 I tested the built-in backup without any problems. Grabbed a small share with ISO files with ease from my old NV+. After the update, I went in and tried to modify the old backup job to point to a different share. Should be easy, right? Well, no matter what I did, it refused to connect. Cancelling out and reloading the original backup job still wouldn't let me connect to the old NV+. Both of them are accessible from my windows machine, but the new NV+ refuses to see the old one anymore. Tried every permutation possible for how to write out the path string, to no avail.
Testing from the old NV+ to the new one still works. The old one is on 4.1.6 though. So apparently the 4.1.7 update broke the backup service.
At this point I can't even trust a brand new NAS to handle a backup job. This is getting ridiculous.
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