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RN104-Utility to tell what it is processing/doing?
Greetings, My RN104 has run well but I hope this is the right section to as a nagging question I have. I am familiar with the reporting/log area where the readynas logs major events like making a sn...
StephenB,
Thanks for the suggestion....I am more than into tweaking things (I build my own PC's), however I would like to keep my RAID "stock" and a little nervous about installing some of the items required to run those utilities. I did research it but am hopeful there is a way to figure it out with standard Netgear tools (perhaps an add-in?) or windows-based utilities that look at the hard drive via the network.
Since my unit has that LCD display is there anyway to get IT to display what is going on? My snapshops are noted in the log and are not happening during the day when I see the access. I have antivirus turned off as I was concerned about it's impact on speed so that is not it.
The blue "act" light is either constantly on or blinking. Now the only device that directly should be looking for the RAID on a regular basis is a WD live device which is usually off. I also pulled the network cable and nothing changed.
The Ver6 web page says all is healthy with disks and CPU temps, etc. so maybe I should just ignore the "Act" light! :) And this is my first RAID so perhaps this is "normal" behaviour.
I wonder if having it auto turnoff once a day would help, although I assume there are the same arguements about turning RAID's on and off and just keeping them on that there are with servers and PC's.
Just curious if you have any other suggestions.
Also, is there some kind of RAID throughput test to run? I was having flawless HD playback from the 104 to a WD live player. However after my router went south and I installed a new one (and based on tests it was at least as fast if not faster and everything is wired), now I am having some intermittent buffering on my WD live player from the RAID. Could be a coincidence, network traffic, the router, or RAID, but at this point I can't figure it out.
Thanks,
BJB
Thanks for the suggestion....I am more than into tweaking things (I build my own PC's), however I would like to keep my RAID "stock" and a little nervous about installing some of the items required to run those utilities. I did research it but am hopeful there is a way to figure it out with standard Netgear tools (perhaps an add-in?) or windows-based utilities that look at the hard drive via the network.
Since my unit has that LCD display is there anyway to get IT to display what is going on? My snapshops are noted in the log and are not happening during the day when I see the access. I have antivirus turned off as I was concerned about it's impact on speed so that is not it.
The blue "act" light is either constantly on or blinking. Now the only device that directly should be looking for the RAID on a regular basis is a WD live device which is usually off. I also pulled the network cable and nothing changed.
The Ver6 web page says all is healthy with disks and CPU temps, etc. so maybe I should just ignore the "Act" light! :) And this is my first RAID so perhaps this is "normal" behaviour.
I wonder if having it auto turnoff once a day would help, although I assume there are the same arguements about turning RAID's on and off and just keeping them on that there are with servers and PC's.
Just curious if you have any other suggestions.
Also, is there some kind of RAID throughput test to run? I was having flawless HD playback from the 104 to a WD live player. However after my router went south and I installed a new one (and based on tests it was at least as fast if not faster and everything is wired), now I am having some intermittent buffering on my WD live player from the RAID. Could be a coincidence, network traffic, the router, or RAID, but at this point I can't figure it out.
Thanks,
BJB
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