NV+ won't boot with new harddrive in

mdgm wrote:

sfreemanoh wrote: Would running a backup from the NV+ to a new NAS be any different functionally than just doing a straight file copy? The advantage of a backup is that it goes direct. If you do a file copy via Windows Explorer on your PC it copies from the NV+ to your PC then onto the new NAS. sfreemanoh wrote: Do you have any recommendations for a new NAS? It's just for home use, but it needs a decent amount of expandability, and my NV+ already has over 5GB's on it, plus I use it extensively for streaming HD media off of, so performance is a factor (something which the NV+ never quite measured up to). I'm going to start seriously researching my options tomorrow, and I've turned off my NV+ for now to hopefully preserve it until I get a replacement. Well I'd suggest considering e.g. the 316 or even the 516. The 6 drive bays provide greater expandability though I choose to use RAID-6 to provide some protection against dual-disk failures. It depends on what you need to do. With the 516 I can transcode (convert on the fly) 1080p video to stream to my iPad. If your clients can play back your video as is (or if you are willing to use a PC to handle the transcoding) then the 300 series should be fine. The 300 series uses an Intel Atom CPU. The 516 uses an Intel i3 Ivy Bridge CPU. They are much, much faster than your NV+. Your NV+ uses the same CPU and memory as a product released in February 2006. Early NAS units with gigabit could get better file transfer speeds than 100Mbit at least for reads, but could go nowhere near saturating gigabit. If you want high performance getting a NAS with an Intel CPU is the way to go. The 300 series can transcode some low bit-rate 720p. So whilst not as good as the 516 for transcoding it can still do some. It can certainly handle remuxing audio. Your NV+ is limited to 4x2TB drives max. Our 300 series and 516 already have the WD RED WD60EFRX 6TB on the compatibility list. The 716X uses a quad-core CPU and has 10GBase-T, but seeing the 516 can handle any 1080p video the 716X is overkill.

Well, I use a 2nd PC when I'm in my office, and a WD HD Live Hub in my living room (which so far has been able to play every kind of file and encoding type I've thrown at it), so transcoding isn't really a huge concern for me. Plus, if I needed to, I could just convert whatever file won't play natively on the WD into a new format.

Basically, if it has enough storage, that'll be good enough for me. If I can run Plex on it natively, that would be icing on the cake (which it appears I can do on the 316, if this info I'm looking at is still correct). And actually, if I can host VMWare VM's on it, that would be awesome as well...I'll have to see if the 316 supports that (or worst case the 516, but I would rather not pay the extra $400 for the 516, especially since I'll also have to purchase new drives for it...all that adds up).