We purchased a ReadyNAS Duo recently. We learned that you should make sure the drives you plan on using are supported for your device. I now have a pair of low power seagate 1.5TB harddtives I need to find new homes for. Just FYI.
--Matt Ross Ephrata School District On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:40 PM, "Angus Scott- Fleming"<[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 Oct 2009 at 7:37, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > > > I prefer the ReadyNAS devices as well. The Buffalo was cheaper for > home use, > > though. > > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker > > Interesting you should say that. I've been looking at a couple of > ReadyNAS 2100s ($1600 naked, no drives, from Provantage; I plan add > 4 enterprise-class 1TB drives [$100-$150 from NewEgg] to populate > initially) as a local backup server with a remote mirror. > Apparently one ReadyNAS can be configured to use rsync to back up > another remote ReadyNAS device. The 2100s have XRAID2, Netgear's > name for expandable RAID-on-the-fly which means you could swap 1TB > drives for 2TB drives one at a time when you need more space and end > up with 6TB without having to reboot. The older XRAID technology > (on the ReadyNAS 1100s) won't see the new space without a reboot, > and the ReadyNAS 1100 got crappy reviews on NewEgg -- everyone said > it was very slow. > > Anyone have any experience with this particular device, any > comments, or recommendations for better ways to do this? > > TIA > > Angus > > > -- > Angus Scott-Fleming > GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona > 1-520-895-3270 > ~! > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
