I've had a ReadyNAS 600 that I bought without drives last August. I populated it with four 320GB Western Digital WD3200JD drives, giving me about 872 GB of RAID5 storage. After some initial strife getting the drives installed and set up the way I wanted (mostly my own fault) and one failed drive in the first month, the thing has run pretty much flawlessly.
I tried running Slim Server on it, but wasn't impressed with the performance, so canned that idea. I also tried using their included backup software, but ran into issues, so switched to using NTBackup and now back up PCs on my network that way. At this point I use the NAS for absolutely nothing but storage and have all of the included software services disabled. Performance isn't mindd-boggling, but it's adequate. Adding a 1000 Gbps switch to my home network helped a lot, plus I've found the performance of the PC doing the reading or writing to the NAS plays a large factor. To give you an idea of up time, my NAS has been shut down exactly _once_ in the last six months, when I upgraded its firmware in March. Looking at the logs, it ran continuously from 20-Oct-2005 to 16-Mar-2006. Almost five months without so much as a hiccup. I think you could successfully use it wirelessly with a USB wireless adapter, but I'd have two large reservations about doing this: 1) Troubleshooting Slim Server problems, particularly wireless issues if you use your SB wirelessly, will be compounded by having your storage connected wirelessly. 2) Library scanning will take a performance hit. While I think the wireless storage connection will be more than adequate to keep a few Squeezeboxes fed a music stream, the scanning will be slow. If you only scan occasionally, this may not be an issue, but if you're like me and constantly adding new music, you'll want to scan fairly often and may not like waiting. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
