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After 4 1/2 years. Disappointment.
The Ultra 2 Plus has been a very good companion over 4 years but seems that it's time for retirement. When I decided to go for the ultra 2 PLUS one at 400+ $, it was for the reliability, expansion an...
On forums the small number of users having problems tend to be the most vocal. You will see the same thing for any product from any vendor.
Btw the Ultra 2 Plus (RNDP200U) has a 3 year limited hardware warranty, not 5 years. The Pro 2 (RNDP2000) has a 5 year limited hardware warranty. So it's surprising support gave you an RMA. An RMA with an expired warranty is going well above and beyond.
Can you send me your logs (see the Sending Logs link in my sig)?
If I look at your case I see that you setup your unit back in October 2011 and that your volume is 85% full.
If you haven't already I would think backing up your data, putting in some new disks e.g. SeaGate NAS disks, and restoring your data from backup would be advisable. I would also suggest keeping your volume usage down to around 80-85%.
Your ST2000DL003 disk has CC32 firmware which is known to have issues for NAS use (unfortunately SeaGate hasn't made a firmware update for drives with CC32 firmware).
After one month trial and error and lots of observation, here's what I've experienced.
- Latest Chrome (version 49.x.x.x) and Firefox (v44.x.x) browser, on MAC, freezes when opening the "installed" section of the add-on.
- Safari on a MAC does open the "installed" add-on page with some delays (30 seconds for the page to load).
- The ReadyNas DLNA server somehow disappeared from the available sources of my 3 year old smart tv, but was correctly available on another Smart Tv. Then I tested today that it was due to activating the ethernet "teaming" capability on the NAS. Now, both ethernet ports operates independently and DLNA appears again as a Tv source.
- When I was having issues, I did a config Backup and Restored everything after formatting. It somehow restored all problems with it. The good practice was to backup the data, format, restore data and reconfigure from scratch. I.e. setup each and every share folder, permission and users. Now everything is right again.
Am just happy that all services are up again. I've realised how dependent everybody was on the NAS.
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