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rnd2000v2 (readynas duo v2) upgrade to os 6
Hello,
I’ve an ReadyNAS duo v2 and I want to upgrade to os 6 or higher.
I’ve read that is possible, but I could’t find the correct steps as well the firmware?
I just use the ReadyNAS to store my photos, so I’m not concerned with the lower performance.
Does anyone know the limits in terms of storage?
I've RAIDiator 5.3.12 and I'm planning to increase the HDD's to 2x4TB.
Can someone help?
thanks ;-)
helnas wrote:
About going to OS 6, if i increase the RAM to 512MB, it will solve the slow performance?
You can't, since the RAM is soldered into the system board
helnas wrote:
I'm managing folders with photos and videos insiide, I'm not willing to define file permitions, but folders instead.
I've folder each year, and each months of the year inside.
For instance on Year 2016, I want to have the November month with read/write/delete but the others months no, and everithing inside the same year of 2016!
And to get the more complex:
- User 1: read/write/delete => to November folder
- User 2: read => to all folders
- User 2: read/write/delete => to all folders
One option is to use two shares - "current" which holds a folder for the current month, and "archive" which holds the folders for all previous months (use whatever names you want of course). Set up the share-level permissions to give user 1 full access to current, and read-only access to archive. Set up user-2 to have full access to both shares.
Then you add in a frontview backup job that copies current to archive. Run that manually at the beginning of each month. Then delete "november" from "current" and make a new "December" folder there.
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2x4TB should be fine with both OS 5 and OS 6. OS6 doesn't have any known expansion limits.
I've also seen one post that said upgrading the v2 products to OS6 is possible. It also said that performance would be poor.
The poster did not publish the procedure, and the conversion binaries you can download are all for x86 NAS.
Why are you wanting OS 6 on the v2?
- I want to change to OS 6 expecting to get more options. I'expecting to have permissions definitions in shared subfolders.
The ReadyNAS Duo v2 has an arm processor, Marvel 1.6Ghz. I don't bielaive that will work with x86 firmware.
helnas wrote:
The ReadyNAS Duo v2 has an arm processor, Marvel 1.6Ghz. I don't believe that will work with x86 firmware.Correct - that was the point of my earlier reply.
helnas wrote:
...expecting to have permissions definitions in shared subfolders.Not from the web UI. You can set them with windows explorer (Right-clicking on the files).
- Thanks for the quick answer.
Now I've got confused.
I setup my permissions in a level of users.
I've 3 users in my home.
One for me, another to my wife and oder called administrator.
With this setup, administrator can write or delete any folder, but myself and my wife just can read/write/delete some of them.
I don't believe that is possible on windows because it's managed by ReadyNAS!
helnas wrote:
With this setup, administrator can write or delete any folder, but myself and my wife just can read/write/delete some of them.
I don't believe that is possible on windows because it's managed by ReadyNAS!There are two different sets of permissions. One is "network permissions" and the other is "file permisisons". Network permissions apply to the entire share, and control which users have access to that share. File permissions apply to specific files. To access a file you need to have both sets of permissions.
You can make adjustments to file permissions in network shares from windows.. You do need appropriate permissions (both network and file) to the share and the subfolder the file is in.
The topic is confusing, and lots of users have trouble with it. There is guide for OS-6 here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29838 Unfortunately there is no similar guide for the v2 products.
helnas wrote:
With this setup, administrator can write or delete any folder, but myself and my wife just can read/write/delete some of them.My guess is that you'd prefer it if both you and your wife could read/write/delete everything. Is that correct?
256MB RAM is barely enough to run the OS let alone deal with actually using the box to store data on it. OS6 on the Duo v2 would run into the OOM condition very easily.
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