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OS6 on ReadyNAS Pro 4 (RNDP4000)
Is OS6 supported on legacy ReadyNAS models, specifically the RNDP4000? The NAS in question currently runs RAIDiator 4.2.31 ... but the lack of support for SMB2 (SMB1 appears to be the only SMB protoc...
My RNDP4000 was running 6.9.5 and automatically received both the 6.9.5 Hotfix1 and today the machine updated to 6.10.0. As luck would have it I had just ordered a 2G memory chip for it which arrived today as well. For some reason after installing the memory upgrade drive 1 degraded but after a few hours everything resynched. I'm not sure what is "new and improved" with 6.10.0 but the machine has been up and running just fine. I have the PHPSystemInformation app installed and was surprised that the system is reporting 94% memory usage with the 2G memory upgrade. I had the 1G chip installed when it upgraded to 6.10.0 and it reported to be using the same amount of memory. Maybe the system just uses as much as you give it.
Just thought I would report that 6.10.0 didn't blow it up.
Edw_CPA wrote:
Maybe the system just uses as much as you give it.
Generally that is the case. "Surplus" memory will be allocated for caching the RAID arrays.
Where you get into trouble is when the memory used by the readynas software itself and apps (including file indexing and antivirus) exceeds the physical memory. There isn't a big swap area, and the swapping will kill the performance.
As a general rule do folks turn on the indexing and antivirus features? We have a couple of users and 200GB (4% usage) of files, All the machines have antivirus turned on and we don't use any of the apps that would bring files onto the NAS. I'm wondering if I shouldn't turn off the antivirus and indexing. Thus far we have no performance issues.
Thanks for any feedback.
Edw_CPA wrote:
All the machines have antivirus turned on and we don't use any of the apps that would bring files onto the NAS.
I'd turn it off then (and it is off on my ReadyNAS).
Edw_CPA wrote:
As a general rule do folks turn on the indexing ...
Indexing allows you to do file search from the admin web ui. Personally I turn that on, but you could turn it on later if when you find a need for it. The main consequence is that you'd have to wait for the indexing to finish before you could search.
So far the antivirus feature has been a huge mess. It regularly flags files which no other antivirus flags, tested via virustotal.com. It also uses up 100% of cpu usage most of the time. Regardless I have left it on for now and put up with reporting the false positives to clamav.
Just a quick question. Do the RAID disks (I have 6 installed) get erased? Is any data lost from those disks?
I'm assuming the upgrade is just the firmware on board the CPU board, and the storage disks are left untouched. Is that correct?
Thanks, Brendan.
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