Hi all, I know this is a bit off-topic, but is anyone else using the QNAP's Q-RAID feature? I recently bought a cheapo external disk enclosure and a 500GB drive (the same model as in the QNAP) in order to use Q-RAID and my initial impressions/thoughts are:
1) I didn't realise that the QNAP had an external (eSATA) socket rather than SATA (they're a different shape) so had to order an SATA to eSATA cable. Doh! 2) Once I received the cable I had to cut down the rubber part of the eSATA end to get it to fit into the QNAP case, which seems to have a recessed connector. Even then it doesn't seem to fit very securely. 3) Once everything was connected there were no problems getting Q-RAID to work - just switch it on in the eSATA Disk page and hit Apply. The disks then chuntered away for a while (several hours) with the progress being shown on the eSATA Disk page. 4) Now that I have the external drive switched on, both disks seems to spend most of their time chuntering away, even when nothing external is accessing the QNAP, which means they don't sleep as much (or maybe at all - I've not been paying much attention). You can 'eject' the drive (from the eSATA Disk page) and switch it off, and it will re-sync when you next turn it on, but that's not an ideal solution. 5) There also seems to be a large discrepancy in the reported free space between the internal and external drives. As I write, the internal drive has 423427MB free versus 378517MB for the external drive. I would have expected them to be the same(?) Should I have formatted it as FAT rather than EXT3? I wouldn't have thought so as I expect the internal drive would be EXT3 as it's Linux-based (I think). I'd be interested in anyone's thoughts, anyway. Cheers. -- jimbo_l Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jimbo_l's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5761 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
