Readynas-102-not-backing-up-and-freezing......continued! #26140511

I just thought that I would post and inform everyone that the problem has been solved satisfactorily and everything is working now, in fact better than it ever has been.

The problem with slow back ups both to USB drives and NAS to NAS has been a curse ever since my firmware was upgraded from 6.2.5 to 6.4.0 and beyond. Although about a month ago the USB backups were back to normal taking about 1.5 hours instead of the 5 hours under 6.4.0 the NAS to NAS backups were still taking a day. The front socket refuses to work at all failing completely for some unexplained reason.

Yet for the sake of repeating myself all used to work absolutely fine under 6.2.5.

By the way, during the course of digging out some paperwork I discovered the original advert for the 102. I says it's suitable for home and small business use so the comment on here from a Netgear 'expert' some months back that I shouldn't be using the 102 for my small business use was utter horlicks.

So how did I solve the issue you may be wondering?

I took advice and based on that after 8 months of pointless hassle, much of it here with seemingly little hope of ever resolving the issue, I rejected the 102 as being unfit for purpose,  I had the unit returned for a full credit and am now running a Synology NAS.

So Netgear can stick their kit where the sun don't shine.

Have a nice day.