Need help, almost ready to return this thing

perfectdark wrote:
The first day took me almost 2 hours just to get to the FrontView as the lack of installation documentation is rediculous.

There are manuals at http://www.readynas.com/docs and a FAQ at http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq

perfectdark wrote:
Yesterday (day 2) i finally got my hard drive recognized and began the setup of users and shares, fTP etc. I wanted to FTP my data from my USB drive to the default "media" folder but access is denied for writinig to this share. I have no idea where as the settings are set to read/write just like every other drive.

May wish to read http://sphardy.com/web/readynas/how-to-setup-readynas-permissions/

perfectdark wrote:
Both DUO v1 and DNS-320 can do torrent clients but the built in ones are terrible.

The BitTorrent add-on hasn't been updated in a long time and is no longer included in the firmware and is no longer supported.

perfectdark wrote:
I wanted to use transmission or another similar client but didn't want to bother with the DNS-320's fun_plug and long installation process whereas, the DUO V1 has a simple add-on installation process.

Transmission is a good choice.

perfectdark wrote:

Which brings me to the next issue and my current concern. I have transmission running and successfully downloaded 1 torrent. However, when i try to load the transmission web interface it is extremely slow. And sometimes will not load at all, amy take 3 or 4 times of refreshing to get a response. And also the DUO V1 frontview is slow to load and when loaded is really slugish when changing settings. The reboots of the DUO v1 take allot longer than my old DNS-323 and I am worried that if I keep this box I am in for a world of headaches in the future.

The v1 has a slow CPU and 256MB RAM. It's got limited resources. Try changing the settings.json to limit the resources Transmission will use up.

perfectdark wrote:

For example, I left the FTP running to trasnfer my data fronm USB via laptop over network to Drive 1 on Duo v1. I went to bed around 10pm and at 10:31pm i received an email from the Duo as follows "A SATA reset has been performed on one or more of your disks that may have affected the RAID parity integrity. It is recommended that you perform a RAID volume resync from the RAID Settings tab ( accessible in the Volumes page => Volume tab in FrontView ). The resync process will run in the background, and you can continue to use the ReadyNAS in the meantime." Now I have no idea when i received this message and I dont have RAID setup at all.

This is a standard message when an issue like this occurs. Sounds like one or more of your disks may have problems. Could you power down, remove disks (label order), hook up to SATA port in PC and check using vendor tools?