Re: [H] iOS 7
So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :) Sent from my mobile device. On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com wrote: What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple invented it. Good example is iCloud. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2013, at 4:10 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote: Why is it a problem to give them credit for making it all work? Sent from my mobile device. On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com wrote: So, I updated my phone to iOS 7 and it looks pretty decent so far. The new layout is a bit jarring but I'm sure I will get used to it. It's funny how Apple has taken the best bits from different operating systems but somehow have managed to improve them and give them a name. And that's what I don't like about Apple it makes people think that Apple has invented this feature while that is not necessarily the case. Either way it really doesn't matter in the end I think that what Apple is doing pushes the mobile industry forward regardless of how they may copy other people. Indian the real winner is the consumer and that's what matters the most. Sent from my iPhone
Re: [H] iOS 7
Well, I'd wildly disagree on NFC. I use NFC frequently and frankly, it's one of the cooler phone technologies I've worked with. Using NFC tags I: set my thermostats on the way out the door with a swipe; auto-update calendar schedules, evernotes will auto-tag notes to NFC tags which for those of us with 'eh' memory is damn slick. On 2013-09-20 05:14, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: The unwashed masses will always be ignorant. Having a beef with them will be counter productive. Monikers help sell things. A retina screen is no big deal to us, but to the unwashed masses it makes sure they get the high-resolution screen without having to remember all of the details. And I do give apple the credit for realizing that WE needed this in everything and starting to bring it out. But they certainly didn't invent high-resolution screens, but they are the main reason they are ubiquitous on tablets. If the touch-ID thing pans out, they won't (and shouldn't) get credit for a fingerprint reader but making is a thing we can use and depend on, they should get credit for, if it works, which remains to be seen. Still to this day no one has made NFC into a useful product. So who invented that is not really so important. On 9/20/2013 5:02 AM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: My beef in general is with people who don't understand the technology and believe the advertising that companies do. And let's not forget that Apple is the master of masking the underlying technology with a moniker that they call their own and making people believe that they were the ones who either invented it or are the first one to do it. But as I mentioned it really doesn't make a big difference in the end as long as the steady march of progress is being made but what really bothers me is the uneducated people out there. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote: So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :) Sent from my mobile device. On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com wrote: What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple invented it. Good example is iCloud. Sent from my iPhone
Re: [H] iOS 7
IOS7 good: function seems to be nice, control center seems to be nice. Bad: my battery life on my Ipad4 has went to total shit. I'll have to figure that out, that's going to kill me. Dislike the folder popout; now instead of filling screen it's a smaller box that ou have to scroll to get all the items of. Dislike that idea. Icons kind of goofy/rainbow bright like. Like the function, some things are quite nice.. but for right now the battery life thing is making all the rest hard to judge. On 2013-09-20 04:20, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :) Sent from my mobile device. On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com wrote: What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple invented it. Good example is iCloud.
Re: [H] iOS 7
Increased battery drain may be because they added a feature that allows apps to update in the background (ie, the multitasking that many said they wanted).. See this for how to disable it: http://www.tuaw.com/2013/09/18/how-to-stop-ios-7-from-destroying-your-iphones-battery-life/ - Brian On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:22 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: IOS7 good: function seems to be nice, control center seems to be nice. Bad: my battery life on my Ipad4 has went to total shit. I'll have to figure that out, that's going to kill me. Dislike the folder popout; now instead of filling screen it's a smaller box that ou have to scroll to get all the items of. Dislike that idea. Icons kind of goofy/rainbow bright like. Like the function, some things are quite nice.. but for right now the battery life thing is making all the rest hard to judge. On 2013-09-20 04:20, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :) Sent from my mobile device. On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com wrote: What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple invented it. Good example is iCloud.
Re: [H] 3TB
WD Red have worked fine for me. I got a set of 4 and put into a raid. Had one keep dropping out of the RAID and failing to rebuild but it turned out to be a bad SATA cable rather than the drive. On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:05 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Heck, your research is way behind. SSD's in NAS is a fact to my meager reads. True, any of the users are Linux-geeks that have 'dicked' with their NAS's OS (f/w), but still. I read it to mean that this is active ATM, if only on a limited scale. Way above my pay grade :) LOL! Duncan On 09/19/2013 17:02, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: That's sexy. Must read more. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Robert Martin Jr. lopaka_...@yahoo.com wrote: What sold me most on the 5N was the ability to add a mSSD in the accelerator bay, to cache data and speed transfers. I have a Crucial m4 128GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive CT128M4SSD3 in mine. Once I added that, the data transfers are crazy fast. Plus the drobo is 5 bays not 4 like the readynas NV+. lopaka __**__ From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**comhardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [H] 3TB Oh! Holy cow! I guess I am still learning how to get my NAS to link up on my LAN. I've never tested, but do not think I see this performance. But then, since completing my 10base1000 LAN, I have never really tested. Actually, I know not how. I just move/copy stuff from my desktop to my NAS, and it goes pretty dang quick! The NAS-to-NAS backups at Zero-dark-30 take place at theNAS' own chosen/agreed upon speed. This I never quibble about. Clearly I might not be on top of this, but it all works so well for me I just don't worry about it at all. I own/run these appliances that are so much smarter than me, but still speak to me in their 'plain speak' that I treat them as 'family.' Except for Intel nic cards, my NAS appliances are the most reliable network devicesI have ever owned. I know that they use a Debian-based Linux OS so I do not dig into their guts. No need to. They just plain workand make digital life a bit better. NAS-ON everyone! Duncan On 09/19/2013 16:07, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: Drobo5N is a completely different beast compared to earlier units. I can transfer 20GB in under a couple minutes over network. ReadyNAS NV+ v1 is about 4-5x that and the v2 6-7x that lopaka __**__ From: Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**comhardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [H] 3TB The deciding factor for me was the hybrid raid. I mix and match different sizes and it works just fine. Before that I had a drobo. Great features but super slow performance. Gave that to my brother in law as a gift and he uses that till today. I don't think I could deal with traditional raid. Having all same size drives would be a bear to upgrade. It's funny. Almost every bay in my synology has a different brand, size and rotation speed. Everything just works and works well. If the synology ever dies I'm never going to switch to another brand. Love the web os of synology and they keep on improving the interface and adding features. I barely use most of them. I just have an antivirus running and do torrents from the synology. I've set it up with ddns so I can add torrents from my phone wherever I am and once I come home it's sitting there for me ready to consume. What more could I want. I also haven't used port teaming to double the bandwidth to 2Gbps. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:48 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Hi Zool, Yes, several in the ReadyNAS community seem to be moving to Synology, QNAP, and, others. Fine. Different strokes for different folks! Nothing more.. I've studied, thought, played with numbers, and decided to stay with my 3 ReadyNAS boxes until something serious happens. For certain, Synology will be where I move to! All of my ReadyNAS run 24/7 and have never dropped a beat in 3 years. I still wait for my 1st HD failure! And, any data loss I have suffered has been totally 'pilot error' (mine!). I'm good. My NAS boxes are the PFM part of my home LAN. Best, Duncan On 09/19/2013 08:28, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: Ready nas are great. It was between that and the synology for me and I went with the latter. 3 years on and its still hasn't skipped a beat. On Sep 19, 2013 3:03 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Lopaka, Never knew you had a ReadyNAS! Silly me. How do you like your NV+ v2? I started with a DUO-v1 in 2009. I can blame John Steinbruner for that. I have added an Ultra 2 and an Ultra 2+. Just now I stay local. In the future I may off-site one of my NAS, or, may try a
Re: [H] Firefox problem
I had this problem. It's the Download Youtube Video's addon for me. I need to find a better addon for doing that. To get around the issue, I use 2 firefox profiles, one in normal use without the addon, one for when I want to yank a video from youtube (Then I clean up the junk after). On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:08 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Well, your 'short of' may fix it. How deep do you cull your cookies and/of history? Duncan On 09/19/2013 16:47, Winterlight wrote: My primary browser is Opera but I also am using the latest updated version of Firefox. A month ago I was looking for a TV show I missed and ran a Google search. A torrent came up, and I clicked on it. The torrent never downloaded but ever since, every time I load Firefox the torrent at 0 bytes appears on my desktop which, for Firefox, is the download location. It doesn't appear in download history, or anywhere that I can find but there it is. How do I stop this behavior short of uninstalling Firefox. Thanks
Re: [H] Firefox problem
Thanks Chris, I do have that extension, and I rarely use it. I have disabled it which lets me turn it on again if I need to. If that doesn't work I will remove it. m At 07:50 AM 9/20/2013, you wrote: I had this problem. It's the Download Youtube Video's addon for me. I need to find a better addon for doing that. To get around the issue, I use 2 firefox profiles, one in normal use without the addon, one for when I want to yank a video from youtube (Then I clean up the junk after). On 09/19/2013 16:47, Winterlight wrote: My primary browser is Opera but I also am using the latest updated version of Firefox. A month ago I was looking for a TV show I missed and ran a Google search. A torrent came up, and I clicked on it. The torrent never downloaded but ever since, every time I load Firefox the torrent at 0 bytes appears on my desktop which, for Firefox, is the download location. It doesn't appear in download history, or anywhere that I can find but there it is. How do I stop this behavior short of uninstalling Firefox. Thanks
Re: [H] 3TB
Why does anyone need movies on a raid? That seems like overkill to me. If one of my drives crashes, it won't be the end of the world as I have all of the backups on optical. I just keep track of what is where so I can regen one as needed. But so far, after 24/7 use of nearly two years, no problems. Those drives are sleeping 99% of the time. :) On 9/20/2013 10:47 AM, Christopher Fisk wrote: WD Red have worked fine for me. I got a set of 4 and put into a raid. Had one keep dropping out of the RAID and failing to rebuild but it turned out to be a bad SATA cable rather than the drive. On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:05 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Heck, your research is way behind. SSD's in NAS is a fact to my meager reads. True, any of the users are Linux-geeks that have 'dicked' with their NAS's OS (f/w), but still. I read it to mean that this is active ATM, if only on a limited scale. Way above my pay grade :) LOL! Duncan On 09/19/2013 17:02, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: That's sexy. Must read more. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Robert Martin Jr. lopaka_...@yahoo.com wrote: What sold me most on the 5N was the ability to add a mSSD in the accelerator bay, to cache data and speed transfers. I have a Crucial m4 128GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive CT128M4SSD3 in mine. Once I added that, the data transfers are crazy fast. Plus the drobo is 5 bays not 4 like the readynas NV+. lopaka __**__ From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**comhardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [H] 3TB Oh! Holy cow! I guess I am still learning how to get my NAS to link up on my LAN. I've never tested, but do not think I see this performance. But then, since completing my 10base1000 LAN, I have never really tested. Actually, I know not how. I just move/copy stuff from my desktop to my NAS, and it goes pretty dang quick! The NAS-to-NAS backups at Zero-dark-30 take place at theNAS' own chosen/agreed upon speed. This I never quibble about. Clearly I might not be on top of this, but it all works so well for me I just don't worry about it at all. I own/run these appliances that are so much smarter than me, but still speak to me in their 'plain speak' that I treat them as 'family.' Except for Intel nic cards, my NAS appliances are the most reliable network devicesI have ever owned. I know that they use a Debian-based Linux OS so I do not dig into their guts. No need to. They just plain workand make digital life a bit better. NAS-ON everyone! Duncan On 09/19/2013 16:07, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: Drobo5N is a completely different beast compared to earlier units. I can transfer 20GB in under a couple minutes over network. ReadyNAS NV+ v1 is about 4-5x that and the v2 6-7x that lopaka __**__ From: Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**comhardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [H] 3TB The deciding factor for me was the hybrid raid. I mix and match different sizes and it works just fine. Before that I had a drobo. Great features but super slow performance. Gave that to my brother in law as a gift and he uses that till today. I don't think I could deal with traditional raid. Having all same size drives would be a bear to upgrade. It's funny. Almost every bay in my synology has a different brand, size and rotation speed. Everything just works and works well. If the synology ever dies I'm never going to switch to another brand. Love the web os of synology and they keep on improving the interface and adding features. I barely use most of them. I just have an antivirus running and do torrents from the synology. I've set it up with ddns so I can add torrents from my phone wherever I am and once I come home it's sitting there for me ready to consume. What more could I want. I also haven't used port teaming to double the bandwidth to 2Gbps. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:48 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Hi Zool, Yes, several in the ReadyNAS community seem to be moving to Synology, QNAP, and, others. Fine. Different strokes for different folks! Nothing more.. I've studied, thought, played with numbers, and decided to stay with my 3 ReadyNAS boxes until something serious happens. For certain, Synology will be where I move to! All of my ReadyNAS run 24/7 and have never dropped a beat in 3 years. I still wait for my 1st HD failure! And, any data loss I have suffered has been totally 'pilot error' (mine!). I'm good. My NAS boxes are the PFM part of my home LAN. Best, Duncan On 09/19/2013 08:28, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: Ready nas are great. It was between that and the synology for me and I went with the latter. 3 years on and its still hasn't skipped a beat. On Sep 19, 2013 3:03
Re: [H] iOS 7
NFC can be used to simplify your life. I have a NFC tag right on my nightstand near my bed which sets my phone to silent and a whole host of other things so that it doesn't bother me at night. No need to futz around with settings. I also have a NFC Tag in the bathroom and near my door which sets it to my daily profile. A NFC tag in on my office table that sets it to my desired settings in the office. NFC payments is about the only way I haven't used NFC. Scanning NFC from passports or other things is cool, but alas, most are encrypted. :) On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.netwrote: Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that NFC is not useful...or even that it won't be one day. But, its promise is not fulfilled on a large scale yet as no one as made it indispensable to the masses. I have at least two devices that support NFC (and I bought them in part because of this feature), so I personally see the potential there. As far as I can tell, NFC is not a compelling technology yet because too many folks are getting along happily without it. The same with the touch-ID. Fingerprint readers aren't new...and, no one has shown them to be something most really want or need. It will be interesting to see if Apple can incorporate it into their devices in such a way to make it compelling. If they can, it will be yet another example of not invented here, but hey, we figured out how to make it really work for folks. I'm not a believer. On 9/20/2013 8:19 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Well, I'd wildly disagree on NFC. I use NFC frequently and frankly, it's one of the cooler phone technologies I've worked with. Using NFC tags I: set my thermostats on the way out the door with a swipe; auto-update calendar schedules, evernotes will auto-tag notes to NFC tags which for those of us with 'eh' memory is damn slick. On 2013-09-20 05:14, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: The unwashed masses will always be ignorant. Having a beef with them will be counter productive. Monikers help sell things. A retina screen is no big deal to us, but to the unwashed masses it makes sure they get the high-resolution screen without having to remember all of the details. And I do give apple the credit for realizing that WE needed this in everything and starting to bring it out. But they certainly didn't invent high-resolution screens, but they are the main reason they are ubiquitous on tablets. If the touch-ID thing pans out, they won't (and shouldn't) get credit for a fingerprint reader but making is a thing we can use and depend on, they should get credit for, if it works, which remains to be seen. Still to this day no one has made NFC into a useful product. So who invented that is not really so important. On 9/20/2013 5:02 AM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: My beef in general is with people who don't understand the technology and believe the advertising that companies do. And let's not forget that Apple is the master of masking the underlying technology with a moniker that they call their own and making people believe that they were the ones who either invented it or are the first one to do it. But as I mentioned it really doesn't make a big difference in the end as long as the steady march of progress is being made but what really bothers me is the uneducated people out there. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote: So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :) Sent from my mobile device. On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com wrote: What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple invented it. Good example is iCloud. Sent from my iPhone -- Best Regards, Zulfiqar Naushad
Re: [H] iOS 7
Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that NFC is not useful...or even that it won't be one day. But, its promise is not fulfilled on a large scale yet as no one as made it indispensable to the masses. I have at least two devices that support NFC (and I bought them in part because of this feature), so I personally see the potential there. As far as I can tell, NFC is not a compelling technology yet because too many folks are getting along happily without it. The same with the touch-ID. Fingerprint readers aren't new...and, no one has shown them to be something most really want or need. It will be interesting to see if Apple can incorporate it into their devices in such a way to make it compelling. If they can, it will be yet another example of not invented here, but hey, we figured out how to make it really work for folks. I'm not a believer. On 9/20/2013 8:19 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Well, I'd wildly disagree on NFC. I use NFC frequently and frankly, it's one of the cooler phone technologies I've worked with. Using NFC tags I: set my thermostats on the way out the door with a swipe; auto-update calendar schedules, evernotes will auto-tag notes to NFC tags which for those of us with 'eh' memory is damn slick. On 2013-09-20 05:14, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: The unwashed masses will always be ignorant. Having a beef with them will be counter productive. Monikers help sell things. A retina screen is no big deal to us, but to the unwashed masses it makes sure they get the high-resolution screen without having to remember all of the details. And I do give apple the credit for realizing that WE needed this in everything and starting to bring it out. But they certainly didn't invent high-resolution screens, but they are the main reason they are ubiquitous on tablets. If the touch-ID thing pans out, they won't (and shouldn't) get credit for a fingerprint reader but making is a thing we can use and depend on, they should get credit for, if it works, which remains to be seen. Still to this day no one has made NFC into a useful product. So who invented that is not really so important. On 9/20/2013 5:02 AM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: My beef in general is with people who don't understand the technology and believe the advertising that companies do. And let's not forget that Apple is the master of masking the underlying technology with a moniker that they call their own and making people believe that they were the ones who either invented it or are the first one to do it. But as I mentioned it really doesn't make a big difference in the end as long as the steady march of progress is being made but what really bothers me is the uneducated people out there. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote: So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :) Sent from my mobile device. On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com wrote: What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple invented it. Good example is iCloud. Sent from my iPhone
Re: [H] 3TB
The raid is for my ease of use. I'm ok over purchasing to save time when a drive fails just rebuilding rather than restoring. It also lets me just toss stuff on one drive letter instead of 4. On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.netwrote: Why does anyone need movies on a raid? That seems like overkill to me. If one of my drives crashes, it won't be the end of the world as I have all of the backups on optical. I just keep track of what is where so I can regen one as needed. But so far, after 24/7 use of nearly two years, no problems. Those drives are sleeping 99% of the time. :) On 9/20/2013 10:47 AM, Christopher Fisk wrote: WD Red have worked fine for me. I got a set of 4 and put into a raid. Had one keep dropping out of the RAID and failing to rebuild but it turned out to be a bad SATA cable rather than the drive. On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:05 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Heck, your research is way behind. SSD's in NAS is a fact to my meager reads. True, any of the users are Linux-geeks that have 'dicked' with their NAS's OS (f/w), but still. I read it to mean that this is active ATM, if only on a limited scale. Way above my pay grade :) LOL! Duncan On 09/19/2013 17:02, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: That's sexy. Must read more. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Robert Martin Jr. lopaka_...@yahoo.com wrote: What sold me most on the 5N was the ability to add a mSSD in the accelerator bay, to cache data and speed transfers. I have a Crucial m4 128GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive CT128M4SSD3 in mine. Once I added that, the data transfers are crazy fast. Plus the drobo is 5 bays not 4 like the readynas NV+. lopaka ____ From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.comhardware@lists.** hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [H] 3TB Oh! Holy cow! I guess I am still learning how to get my NAS to link up on my LAN. I've never tested, but do not think I see this performance. But then, since completing my 10base1000 LAN, I have never really tested. Actually, I know not how. I just move/copy stuff from my desktop to my NAS, and it goes pretty dang quick! The NAS-to-NAS backups at Zero-dark-30 take place at theNAS' own chosen/agreed upon speed. This I never quibble about. Clearly I might not be on top of this, but it all works so well for me I just don't worry about it at all. I own/run these appliances that are so much smarter than me, but still speak to me in their 'plain speak' that I treat them as 'family.' Except for Intel nic cards, my NAS appliances are the most reliable network devicesI have ever owned. I know that they use a Debian-based Linux OS so I do not dig into their guts. No need to. They just plain workand make digital life a bit better. NAS-ON everyone! Duncan On 09/19/2013 16:07, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: Drobo5N is a completely different beast compared to earlier units. I can transfer 20GB in under a couple minutes over network. ReadyNAS NV+ v1 is about 4-5x that and the v2 6-7x that lopaka ____ From: Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.comhardware@lists.** hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.* *com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [H] 3TB The deciding factor for me was the hybrid raid. I mix and match different sizes and it works just fine. Before that I had a drobo. Great features but super slow performance. Gave that to my brother in law as a gift and he uses that till today. I don't think I could deal with traditional raid. Having all same size drives would be a bear to upgrade. It's funny. Almost every bay in my synology has a different brand, size and rotation speed. Everything just works and works well. If the synology ever dies I'm never going to switch to another brand. Love the web os of synology and they keep on improving the interface and adding features. I barely use most of them. I just have an antivirus running and do torrents from the synology. I've set it up with ddns so I can add torrents from my phone wherever I am and once I come home it's sitting there for me ready to consume. What more could I want. I also haven't used port teaming to double the bandwidth to 2Gbps. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:48 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Hi Zool, Yes, several in the ReadyNAS community seem to be moving to Synology, QNAP, and, others. Fine. Different strokes for different folks! Nothing more.. I've studied, thought, played with numbers, and decided to stay with my 3 ReadyNAS boxes until something serious happens. For certain,
Re: [H] 3TB
Good point. On 9/20/2013 6:32 PM, Bryan Seitz wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 03:58:26PM -0400, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Why does anyone need movies on a raid? That seems like overkill to me. If one of my drives crashes, it won't be the end of the world as I have all of the backups on optical. I just keep track of what is where so I can regen one as needed. But so far, after 24/7 use of nearly two years, no problems. Those drives are sleeping 99% of the time. :) Hi, not all media is sourced from optical.
Re: [H] 3TB
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 03:58:26PM -0400, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Why does anyone need movies on a raid? That seems like overkill to me. If one of my drives crashes, it won't be the end of the world as I have all of the backups on optical. I just keep track of what is where so I can regen one as needed. But so far, after 24/7 use of nearly two years, no problems. Those drives are sleeping 99% of the time. :) Hi, not all media is sourced from optical. -- Bryan G. Seitz
Re: [H] 3TB
When my first ReadyNAS NV+ v1 had the catastrophic failure, I did have all or most of my movies on hard copies. I can say it took over 6 months to get everything back in digital format because I had to re-rip and stuff. Anything important (other than movies) is backed up to 2 different NAS setups so the likelihood of failure is small. On the drobo5n I probably have 9 TB's of movie files. Once I started doing blu-ray backups, filling up a NAS is easy. Some movies are 20GB's each. I like having stuff on raid and have been able to recuperate from 3 drive failures because of raid, without doing anything but popping the dead drive and and putting a new one in hot. System rebuilds and all is good. lopaka From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [H] 3TB Why does anyone need movies on a raid? That seems like overkill to me. If one of my drives crashes, it won't be the end of the world as I have all of the backups on optical. I just keep track of what is where so I can regen one as needed. But so far, after 24/7 use of nearly two years, no problems. Those drives are sleeping 99% of the time. :) On 9/20/2013 10:47 AM, Christopher Fisk wrote: WD Red have worked fine for me. I got a set of 4 and put into a raid. Had one keep dropping out of the RAID and failing to rebuild but it turned out to be a bad SATA cable rather than the drive. On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:05 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Heck, your research is way behind. SSD's in NAS is a fact to my meager reads. True, any of the users are Linux-geeks that have 'dicked' with their NAS's OS (f/w), but still. I read it to mean that this is active ATM, if only on a limited scale. Way above my pay grade :) LOL! Duncan On 09/19/2013 17:02, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: That's sexy. Must read more. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Robert Martin Jr. lopaka_...@yahoo.com wrote: What sold me most on the 5N was the ability to add a mSSD in the accelerator bay, to cache data and speed transfers. I have a Crucial m4 128GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive CT128M4SSD3 in mine. Once I added that, the data transfers are crazy fast. Plus the drobo is 5 bays not 4 like the readynas NV+. lopaka __**__ From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**comhardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [H] 3TB Oh! Holy cow! I guess I am still learning how to get my NAS to link up on my LAN. I've never tested, but do not think I see this performance. But then, since completing my 10base1000 LAN, I have never really tested. Actually, I know not how. I just move/copy stuff from my desktop to my NAS, and it goes pretty dang quick! The NAS-to-NAS backups at Zero-dark-30 take place at theNAS' own chosen/agreed upon speed. This I never quibble about. Clearly I might not be on top of this, but it all works so well for me I just don't worry about it at all. I own/run these appliances that are so much smarter than me, but still speak to me in their 'plain speak' that I treat them as 'family.' Except for Intel nic cards, my NAS appliances are the most reliable network devicesI have ever owned. I know that they use a Debian-based Linux OS so I do not dig into their guts. No need to. They just plain workand make digital life a bit better. NAS-ON everyone! Duncan On 09/19/2013 16:07, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: Drobo5N is a completely different beast compared to earlier units. I can transfer 20GB in under a couple minutes over network. ReadyNAS NV+ v1 is about 4-5x that and the v2 6-7x that lopaka __**__ From: Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**comhardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [H] 3TB The deciding factor for me was the hybrid raid. I mix and match different sizes and it works just fine. Before that I had a drobo. Great features but super slow performance. Gave that to my brother in law as a gift and he uses that till today. I don't think I could deal with traditional raid. Having all same size drives would be a bear to upgrade. It's funny. Almost every bay in my synology has a different brand, size and rotation speed. Everything just works and works well. If the synology ever dies I'm never going to switch to another brand. Love the web os of synology and they keep on improving the interface and adding features. I barely use most of them. I just have an antivirus running and do torrents from the synology. I've set it up with ddns so I can add torrents from my phone wherever I am and once I come home it's sitting there for me ready to
