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Author Topic: DNS-325 - Does it support AFT Drives?  (Read 6693 times)

kravnos

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DNS-325 - Does it support AFT Drives?
« on: October 25, 2011, 01:36:28 PM »
I couldn't find an answer to this, everything pointed to the 321 and 323 Models which only worked with the new beta firmware.

Does the 325 support AFT Drives?

Does the 325 still have problems with WDxxEARS drives in Raid 1?
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JavaLawyer

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Re: DNS-325 - Does it support AFT Drives?
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2011, 01:39:08 PM »
Yes, The DNS-325 supports AFT HDDs.
I can not speak specifically to the WExxEARS and RAID 1 however.
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kravnos

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Re: DNS-325 - Does it support AFT Drives?
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2011, 06:32:19 AM »
Thanks for the reply.

Does anyone know if the Western Digital xxxxxEARS Drives have problems with this model in Raid 1?
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Re: DNS-325 - Does it support AFT Drives?
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2011, 06:30:12 AM »
I'm using two WD20EARS in RAID1 since about two months, no problem occurred.
Throughput on a 100Mbit LAN is 8-10 MB/sec.
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priitv8

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Re: DNS-325 - Does it support AFT Drives?
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2011, 08:15:33 AM »
Quote from: kravnos on October 25, 2011, 01:36:28 PM
Does the 325 still have problems with WDxxEARS drives in Raid 1?
What kind of problems are you thinking about? I've got 2xWD30EZRX in RAID1 and haven't discovered any problems yet.
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Re: DNS-325 - Does it support AFT Drives?
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2011, 08:30:14 AM »
Please keep in mind that if you use RAID 1 you should also maintain a separate physical backup of your data. RAID 1 provides redundancy in the event of a HDD failure, but is NOT a backup.
Redundancy vs. Backup
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kravnos

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Re: DNS-325 - Does it support AFT Drives?
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2011, 08:55:31 AM »
Quote from: priitv8 on November 13, 2011, 08:15:33 AM
What kind of problems are you thinking about? I've got 2xWD30EZRX in RAID1 and haven't discovered any problems yet.

As reported by many other users, the use of WDxxEARS in raid 1 has problems with recovery once a drive fails and it becomes unrecoverable making raid 1 a fruitless effort for these drives.

I am using them in raid 0 atm because of this.
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priitv8

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Re: DNS-325 - Does it support AFT Drives?
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2011, 01:15:48 PM »
Quote from: kravnos
As reported by many other users, the use of WDxxEARS in raid 1 has problems with recovery once a drive fails and it becomes unrecoverable making raid 1 a fruitless effort for these drives.

I am using them in raid 0 atm because of this.
That sounds alarming. From this forum I reckon that it will also not be possible to re-build a failed Ext3 disk external to the NAS?
That leaves us with a hope for a working official Firmware version with AFT support.
Luckily I don't depend on the data availablity on this NAS (yet).
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