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[Disk1of5]

Subject says it all.. is 1.08 to flaky at this point or is it stable enough for production?

[rcblackwell]

What gives you the impression its flaky? I've been using it without an issue since its release.

[Disk1of5]

What gives you the impression its flaky? I've been using it without an issue since its release.

oh i don't know .. possibly the sticky topic on the root of the forum that the moderators put up called
"DNS-323 1.08 Ongoing Issue List - Updated April 5th 2010"

[fordem]

Perhaps you should read the thread and see what the issues are - it's not only possible, but highly likely for software to have issues without being flaky & unstable.

Let me ask this question, what operating system are you running, there's a 90% probability it's a Microsoft OS, and a 98% probability that Microsoft is going to release a patch for it next Tuesday - so we can probably agree that it has issues, so here's the question, is it flaky or is it stable enough to be used.

For what it's worth - I'm running the 1.09 beta firmware on my DNS-323, and if you're curious, Server 2008, Server 2003 and a mixture of Windows 7 Pro, Windows Vista & Windows XP Pro as my client OSs.

[White Rabbit]

i updated tonight, i have not had a single problem yet.

[gunrunnerjohn]

I've been running 1.08 since b5, and it's never given me any problem.  Sure, there are issues with any version of firmware for any device, that doesn't mean they're issues that affect you are will endanger your data.

[perfectdark]

What gives you the impression its flaky? I've been using it without an issue since its release.

yeah.... i haven't seen any issues

[dicrouthamel]

No issues here.  Just wish that the UPNP server would be DLNA compliant and work with my Bravia TV.

[jasonsbx]

Subject says it all.. is 1.08 to flaky at this point or is it stable enough for production?

I'm about to go back to 1.06. When I upgraded I decided to do a clean one so reformated drives as ext3 and started again.
Downside has been transfer rate seems to be half previously and bit torrent never seems to get upto any sort of speed. I installed the old bittorrent and that has mainly come right except settings don't save sometimes.
However the transfer rate is the important bit so it's back to 1.06 and ext2.

[fordem]

I'm about to go back to 1.06. When I upgraded I decided to do a clean one so reformated drives as ext3 and started again.
Downside has been transfer rate seems to be half previously and bit torrent never seems to get upto any sort of speed. I installed the old bittorrent and that has mainly come right except settings don't save sometimes.
However the transfer rate is the important bit so it's back to 1.06 and ext2.

I gotta ask this - I assume you know you can run ext2 with 1.08 - so, have you tried 1.08 and ext2? 
Let me ask the same question another way - is the performance hit you're experiencing the result of an upgrade to 1.08 or is it the result of switching to ext3?

I take it you're aware the difference between ext2 and ext3 is the addition of journalling, which involves additional writes to the disk, and therefore a performance hit - a fact which, by the way, is pointed out on the screen where you select ext2/ext3 file system during formatting.

[jasonsbx]

I gotta ask this - I assume you know you can run ext2 with 1.08 - so, have you tried 1.08 and ext2? 
Let me ask the same question another way - is the performance hit you're experiencing the result of an upgrade to 1.08 or is it the result of switching to ext3?

I take it you're aware the difference between ext2 and ext3 is the addition of journalling, which involves additional writes to the disk, and therefore a performance hit - a fact which, by the way, is pointed out on the screen where you select ext2/ext3 file system during formatting.

Some yes but network utilisation (1 gig network) use to be ~12% now ~4-5% so transfer rate took not just a small hit.
Bittorrent also seems to have take a hit and just doesn't seem to ramp up but installing via earlier easyshare seems to have fixed this. I'll try reformatting first before changing versions, versions are easy formatting is a pain.