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jhyland
Oct 20, 2015Tutor
ReadyNAS becomes unresponsive - could it be tied to FW6.4 and backups?
I own a ReadyNAS 104. I currently have four 3TB drives in it in X-Raid. (5.86TB free of 8.17TB total). I have a 5TB USB 3.0 drive plugged into the front USB Drive. It is formatted as EXT4. I am ...
Absolute1
Mar 04, 2016Aspirant
We've had problems with OS 6 since the beginning. 3 seperate Cases (which all get closed despite no fix).
In both cases it's with large backups, like other have mentioned, once you try to back up 2+Tbs to an external drive the system locks up, shares and files being worked on drop off.
What we've narrowd it down to is as soon as the backup starts (regardless of the backup drive being pluggedin) the system goes slow or just stops sharing.
the client has a 516 and we've cloned his settings and data to a 104 in our workshop, and like others all went well until we restored the entire 5Tb's of data and tried to backup.
Hi Netgear: these are the case refs incase you can reopen and sort. (includes some 106 e-mail responses)
September 2013 #21894601
December 2013 # 22117684
October 2015 #25896827
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