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Safe tu update to 6.5?
After the 6.4 update debacle, I swore to never update my RN516 again. I lost days trying to get things running again, and after several chats with Netgear's support staff, it's been working perfectly...
It has been working well for me on my RN102 and RN202. I like the custom snapshot feature - in particular the ability to set a max retention for snapshots. The performance of directly attached NTFS USB drives is greatly improved. There are also some security patches.
The only new issue I've found is that I needed to disable spindown when I scheduled the custom snapshots.
But I am seeing some risk (beyond ReadyCloud). Some here are reporting issues with SMB access after the upgrade. In some cases, SMB is simply turned off on the NAS and can't be turned back on. In others SMB appears normal on the NAS but some people still are having trouble connecting. A few other users are reporting "inactive volumes".
Like 6.4.x, Netgear is saying not to downgrade to earlier firmware.
I don't advise leaving the NAS down rev forever, but there is some merit in being cautious on a new release. If you are happy with your current performance and your NAS is not exposed to the internet, then perhaps monitor the forum for a bit longer before taking the update.
Thank you for your input Stephen. I'm going to err on the side of caution this time and wait it out. Loosing SMB access would be a nightmare, we have about 20 users accesing files from the NAS.
for commercial use of a 516 with lots of dynamic data it may be wise to get a 2nd nas for backup
cpu8088 wrote:
for commercial use of a 516 with lots of dynamic data it may be wise to get a 2nd nas for backup
I agree. Lost productivity would be far more expensive than a backup NAS. It could be a RN316 if price is a problem.
DO NOT UPDATE TO FIRMWARE 6.5.0
I have two ReadyNAS 3130's, well, used to have two of them...
Firmware 6.5.0 was supposed to resolve the Anti-Virus slowdown issue with 6.4.1. After installing the update I soon lost all connectivity to ADS on my domain. None of my users could access any of their data on the ReadyNAS. User and group permissions were lost on all shares. I contacted support and they said they were aware of the problem and had no resolution as this time.
It's been two weeks since I contacted support. No fix or workaround has been released. This is a major issue and a deal breaker as far as I'm concerned. Too many issues from day one with my 3130's.
I have managed to migrate all of my data onto other servers and have shutdown my ReadyNAS systems.
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