I've spent months trying different disks etc in my NV+ v2 thinking it must just be a disk problem because the Nas couldn't be this bad. But I've given up now, here is my problem:
Anytime the NAS is under any sort of load, most of the time downloading and unzipping/copying/moving at the same time, or even a few times when I'm streaming from it to my WDTV it crashes. All the lights stay on, can't ssh, can't ping, can't http. Power button doesn't turn it off(power button has never worked to turn it off???), have to pull the power to boot again. Most of the time it gets stuck on "booting", the only way I've found around this is to pull ANY disk and it will boot from one then resync later when I insert the 2nd disk. I've tried different network cables, switches, modems, routers etc. Everytime I actually get into the NAS there are no current logs, my previous netgear support ticket was because Radiator 5.3.5 didn't install properly and the NAS stopped logging about a month before that....so they couldn't tell why.
The disks are on the HCL, my first set weren't which is why I specifically went out and bought these Hitachi ones. Although nothing seemed to change getting these HCL compliant ones.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, too much time and money has gone in to getting this right.
Good luck getting any response. I have an NV+ V2 with 4 x 2TB disks and it is absolute crap. Same symptoms as you describe, any kind of load makes it crash hard and the only recourse is to power cycle the device. What a piece of junk this is. NetGear used to be a name that could be trusted for decent quality but they're really slipping. Tech support is a joke. Not impressed at all with NetGear any longer.
Yep. Pretty sad when a DLink at half the price outperforms the NetGear kit. I'm lucky (?) enough to have both. A DLInk at home which I routinely transfer gigantic files to and from without issue, and a NetGear at work which is nothing but problems at double the cost.
