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File Corruption after power failure.
We use the ReadyNASRNDX4250 as a central repository for our Office files - Word and Excel - opening these files from the NAS and then saving them back to the NAS. However, sometimes there is a power c...
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Perhaps I'm being naive, but when I write or save a file on the PC it's then safe whatever happens to the power supply to the computer. If the computer crashes and then re-starts, the file is still there and undamaged. On the NAS this doesn't appear to be so, in that a crash can have the effect of corrupting a file even if it was saved to the hard disk on the NAS some hours previously. Is this how it's meant to work? And why?
I will buy a UPS if this is the only way to protect the files, but it seems strange to me.
Perhaps I'm being naive, but when I write or save a file on the PC it's then safe whatever happens to the power supply to the computer. If the computer crashes and then re-starts, the file is still there and undamaged. On the NAS this doesn't appear to be so, in that a crash can have the effect of corrupting a file even if it was saved to the hard disk on the NAS some hours previously. Is this how it's meant to work? And why?
I will buy a UPS if this is the only way to protect the files, but it seems strange to me.
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