NAS: Duger denne NAS-boksen?

[Patience]

http://www.dustinhome.no/pd_5010108535.aspx

 

Hvordan er denne boksen? Noen som har erfaring?

[Lars Dongeri Oppholdsnes]

Fant en som omtalte endel negative aspekt ved den. Høres ikke ut som et godt valg...

 

This unit is nice to look at, but under the hood, it falls short. I will be returning mine as soon as I migrate the data off of it.

 

The Synology CubeStation CS407e is only a little over $50 more, and has LOTS more features, is QUIET, and has a UI that has had much more thought put into it. Be sure to look at them both before you buy..

 

Top 10 issues I have with the SmartStor:

 

1. It is more noisy than my computer! That's a show stopper right there.

 

2. No local (web based) file managment. If you need to move large chunks of data from one share to another (see item 3), you have to move it all over the network and then back again into the share you want.

 

3. Cannot rename shared folders. This is just an unacceptable missing item that is a repeating theme in my opnion.

 

4. Documentation covers only the most obvious things. No documention on the plug-in's except the most rudementary and obvious things. No documention on finer points of how they implement RAID and RAID recovery.

 

5. If you add a 1TB drive to a RAID array of 3 750GB drives, you just lose that extra 250Gig of space. That disk capacity should be available for other volumes...

 

6. Rebuilding a 750GB RAID 5 Volume took well over 24 hours..

 

7. Extending a RAID 5 volume to add a foruth (1TB) drive is even worse. Mine has been going for three days now and is only about 65% done.

 

8. Some documentation says it works with XBOX 360, other documents say it's not suported and will be supported in FR4 of the firmware, which it says is to be released in August. It's mid October, still not there.. At best, they are not keeping their documentation straight. I could not get my 360 to see it, with all the updates applied.

 

9. FTP sever drops a logged in user at the volume level instead of the share level. If you have more than one volume, you have to hunt for the volume that has the share with the files you want. Another tpyical lack of attention to detail.

 

10. FTP is not configurable to use SSL or other security, and uses real accounts. So you have to pass access information to your data over the net in clear text. Completly unsafe to use in real life this way.

 

11. Bonus problem: If the NAS loses it's connection to the LAN in any way... Say you restart the switch, re-route the cable, whatever. Ypu are done. The unit becomes completely unresponsive and you have to shut it down via the power switch to get acceess to your data again.

[Patience]

Oppklarende svar. Da blir det ikke den i allefall :-) Mange takk.