ReadyNas Duo v2 - Installation & Setup

StephenB wrote:
If the D-link isn't gigabit, then this is a really bad idea.

Thank you for your further response - I overlooked this fact :( When I ordered Sky Broadband last year, they promised me an up to date router - they failed on that promise sending me a D-Linkl DSL-2604S, which as far as I can make out, is not a Gigabit or N-Draft router. I don't use it for wireless anyway but anticipated it being a Gigabit model. Yes a small Gigabit switch is going to have to be my next purchase - thanks for the advice.

I have another worry now........................

Syncing started straight away at about 156MB/Sec and it suggested about 4.5 hours to complete or thereabouts. I left for work leaving the ReadyNas syncing, assuming that when I got home the syncing would have completed and the disks spun down (as I changed the power down option to 5mins of disk inactivity). However when I actually arrived back home late last night, the blue light, just under the power button, was still flashing away and with a miniscule speed of a a very small fraction of a MB/Sec it was going to take 123 hours to complete! IIRC I turned off the PC, before leaving for work but left the ReadyNas doing it's thing - was this a bad step? Should I have left the PC on too? Anyhow, I pulled the plug because I couldn't turn the damn thing off using the power button and decided to return to the problem this morning.

This morning, switching the ReadyNas back on, it fired up ok and went into "Recovery Mode" rebuilding, presumably, the second disk? I played about with the configuration to set some new folders, renamed one and changed the host name, leaving the ReadyNas "recovering".

Again when things started off speed was around 150/160 MB/Sec but right now as I post this, the speed has dropped to 120MB/Sec with 18.9% completed and over 5 hours to complete, whereas at the beginning it was going to be 4.5 hours as yesterday.

What is happening please? Am I going to experience another slow-down of speed today as recovery progresses? I am worried that I will be in the same boat this evening as I was yesterday. I haven't transferred any files to the ReadyNas yet and whilst my PC has lost the connection to it, this is because of the Host Name change (RAIDar and RAIDiator are still seeing it) - I daresay when things have completed and I reboot all will be well - but when will this be lol?

Thanks again for your help

roz