From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:442a936f$1{at}w3....
>I want to take a look at that NV, and see just how bad the noise is from
>those front fans.
>
> Re: your 600. How was the build quality? How do they get those #%#$
> slip-on SATA connectors to stay on in transit?
>
> I'm already trying to figure out how I'll partition my home-office net
> into gigabit and 100 segments - that giga-ish write rate, at least, is
> getting attractive.

I had to replace the original SATA drives as the distributor put in
unsupported/incompatible  WD 'JS' ( Western Digital WD2500JS ) which ran
far too hot.  Infrant lists them as incompatible on their website. Infrant
sent me the RMA information quickly but the distributor ASI was a bit
unresponsive in my first two emails. I then cc-ed  Infrant ( Steve Wang,
James Sung ) for further RMA requests and only after that did I receive
prompt action from ASI

The build quality was ok but they do use these plastic screws to hold the
drives once they are slipped into the cage ( they give some extras ) that
are prone to having their heads twisted off.  I received the unit with the
original drives already mounted and configured. When I received the
replacements I just powered off the unit and swapped out one drive at a
time and let the raid rebuild it.  I was concerned as to how well the
drives would slide into the SATA connectors but had no problems in that
area.

Here's a portion of the log on the rebuild (250 gig  drive)

   Tue Feb 21 20:16:35 EST 2006   RAID sync finished on volume C.
   Tue Feb 21 16:51:05 EST 2006   System is up.
   Tue Feb 21 16:50:37 EST 2006   RAID sync started on volume C.

Here's a portion of the log concerning the temperature problem ( the box
was emailing me also )

   Tue Feb 14 14:34:02 EST 2006   Disk on channel 4 has reached warning
level (55C/131F).
   Tue Feb 14 14:32:02 EST 2006   Disk on channel 4 has reached warning
level (55C/131F).
   Mon Feb 13 10:16:03 EST 2006   Disk on channel 4 has reached warning
level (55C/131F).
   Mon Feb 13 10:14:03 EST 2006   Disk on channel 4 has reached warning
level (55C/131F).
   Mon Feb 13 00:04:03 EST 2006   Disk on channel 4 has reached warning
level (55C/131F).
   Mon Feb 13 00:02:03 EST 2006   Disk on channel 4 has reached warning
level (55C/131F).


They have a pretty good forum on their site and I've seen instructions from
various users on replacing the front fan there with either a quieter or a
more powerful one.

www.infrant.com  under Support - ReadyNAS Compatibility lists

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