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ReadyNAS Performance Expectations

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

So, you’ve got your new ReadyNAS device and are wondering why it’s not screaming at gigabit speeds.  Before going to much further, let’s be sure that our equipment is capable of delivering the speeds we’re looking for. The Slowest Network Link One of the problems is that many people fail to take into account that [...]

Unofficial ReadyNAS Getting Started Guide

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

This guide is designed to help users avoid some common problems when setting up and configuring their new ReadyNAS device. Generally speaking, the ReadyNAS devices are quite easy to setup. Most units come with the drives pre-installed and configured, however, there are a few models that are available in a diskless version (notably the Pioneer [...]

Mounting Sparc-based ReadyNAS Drives in x86-based Linux

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

When the ReadyNAS developers changed the default block size in RAIDiator 4.x to 16 KB (from 4 KB in version 3.x), there was concern from the community that users would be unable to mount drives from a failed ReadyNAS into a Linux computer.  The concern is that the ReadyNAS Duo, NV+, X6, 600 & 1100 [...]

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