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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender @scottalanmiller
      last edited by

      @scottalanmiller said:

      @Dashrender said:

      @scottalanmiller said:

      @Dashrender said:

      @scottalanmiller said:

      Oh, no I've checked. Their RAID 5 in their NAS is always on RE drives. Almost triple the cost of Red drives.

      ohhh.. huh, interesting... well in that case then.. is the device a 3 drive device they are pushing people toward? or a 4 drive?

      They sell a four drive, RAID 5 device. The problem is, that to defend that product they go out and try to tell the world that RAID 5 is just fine and that all of the concern is made up. They put people at risk trying to cover for selling a crappy NAS device.

      Other than pushing toward RAID 5, what makes the device crappy?

      It's fine, just a very entry level device. Not bad like QNAP, for example. It's much more limited than it's competition, though. Everything it is up against has configurable drives and RAID. It does not.

      you can't configure the RAID level? if that's the case, yep, that's a NEVER buy device.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @Dashrender
        last edited by

        @Dashrender said:

        @scottalanmiller said:

        @Dashrender said:

        @scottalanmiller said:

        @Dashrender said:

        @scottalanmiller said:

        Oh, no I've checked. Their RAID 5 in their NAS is always on RE drives. Almost triple the cost of Red drives.

        ohhh.. huh, interesting... well in that case then.. is the device a 3 drive device they are pushing people toward? or a 4 drive?

        They sell a four drive, RAID 5 device. The problem is, that to defend that product they go out and try to tell the world that RAID 5 is just fine and that all of the concern is made up. They put people at risk trying to cover for selling a crappy NAS device.

        Other than pushing toward RAID 5, what makes the device crappy?

        It's fine, just a very entry level device. Not bad like QNAP, for example. It's much more limited than it's competition, though. Everything it is up against has configurable drives and RAID. It does not.

        you can't configure the RAID level? if that's the case, yep, that's a NEVER buy device.

        That's the whole point, it's a RAID 5 device only.

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        • DashrenderD
          Dashrender @scottalanmiller
          last edited by Dashrender

          @scottalanmiller said:

          @Dashrender said:

          @scottalanmiller said:

          @Dashrender said:

          @scottalanmiller said:

          @Dashrender said:

          @scottalanmiller said:

          Oh, no I've checked. Their RAID 5 in their NAS is always on RE drives. Almost triple the cost of Red drives.

          ohhh.. huh, interesting... well in that case then.. is the device a 3 drive device they are pushing people toward? or a 4 drive?

          They sell a four drive, RAID 5 device. The problem is, that to defend that product they go out and try to tell the world that RAID 5 is just fine and that all of the concern is made up. They put people at risk trying to cover for selling a crappy NAS device.

          Other than pushing toward RAID 5, what makes the device crappy?

          It's fine, just a very entry level device. Not bad like QNAP, for example. It's much more limited than it's competition, though. Everything it is up against has configurable drives and RAID. It does not.

          you can't configure the RAID level? if that's the case, yep, that's a NEVER buy device.

          That's the whole point, it's a RAID 5 device only.

          Aww.. well - yep, crazy stupid device.

          Wait - if you only put SSDs in there, then it's probably usable, but still - crazy stupid device.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @Dashrender
            last edited by

            @Dashrender said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            @Dashrender said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            @Dashrender said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            @Dashrender said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            Oh, no I've checked. Their RAID 5 in their NAS is always on RE drives. Almost triple the cost of Red drives.

            ohhh.. huh, interesting... well in that case then.. is the device a 3 drive device they are pushing people toward? or a 4 drive?

            They sell a four drive, RAID 5 device. The problem is, that to defend that product they go out and try to tell the world that RAID 5 is just fine and that all of the concern is made up. They put people at risk trying to cover for selling a crappy NAS device.

            Other than pushing toward RAID 5, what makes the device crappy?

            It's fine, just a very entry level device. Not bad like QNAP, for example. It's much more limited than it's competition, though. Everything it is up against has configurable drives and RAID. It does not.

            you can't configure the RAID level? if that's the case, yep, that's a NEVER buy device.

            That's the whole point, it's a RAID 5 device only.>
            Aww.. well - yep, crazy stupid device.

            Wait - if you only put SSDs in there, then it's probably usable, but still - crazy stupid device.

            You can try that. It's not a device that officially allows you to change the drives, though.

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            • DashrenderD
              Dashrender @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said:

              @Dashrender said:

              @scottalanmiller said:

              @Dashrender said:

              @scottalanmiller said:

              @Dashrender said:

              @scottalanmiller said:

              @Dashrender said:

              @scottalanmiller said:

              Oh, no I've checked. Their RAID 5 in their NAS is always on RE drives. Almost triple the cost of Red drives.

              ohhh.. huh, interesting... well in that case then.. is the device a 3 drive device they are pushing people toward? or a 4 drive?

              They sell a four drive, RAID 5 device. The problem is, that to defend that product they go out and try to tell the world that RAID 5 is just fine and that all of the concern is made up. They put people at risk trying to cover for selling a crappy NAS device.

              Other than pushing toward RAID 5, what makes the device crappy?

              It's fine, just a very entry level device. Not bad like QNAP, for example. It's much more limited than it's competition, though. Everything it is up against has configurable drives and RAID. It does not.

              you can't configure the RAID level? if that's the case, yep, that's a NEVER buy device.

              That's the whole point, it's a RAID 5 device only.>
              Aww.. well - yep, crazy stupid device.

              Wait - if you only put SSDs in there, then it's probably usable, but still - crazy stupid device.

              You can try that. It's not a device that officially allows you to change the drives, though.

              aww.. it also comes pre populated.... yeah.. scratch that from the face of the earth.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                last edited by

                @Dashrender said:

                @scottalanmiller said:

                @Dashrender said:

                @scottalanmiller said:

                @Dashrender said:

                @scottalanmiller said:

                @Dashrender said:

                @scottalanmiller said:

                @Dashrender said:

                @scottalanmiller said:

                Oh, no I've checked. Their RAID 5 in their NAS is always on RE drives. Almost triple the cost of Red drives.

                ohhh.. huh, interesting... well in that case then.. is the device a 3 drive device they are pushing people toward? or a 4 drive?

                They sell a four drive, RAID 5 device. The problem is, that to defend that product they go out and try to tell the world that RAID 5 is just fine and that all of the concern is made up. They put people at risk trying to cover for selling a crappy NAS device.

                Other than pushing toward RAID 5, what makes the device crappy?

                It's fine, just a very entry level device. Not bad like QNAP, for example. It's much more limited than it's competition, though. Everything it is up against has configurable drives and RAID. It does not.

                you can't configure the RAID level? if that's the case, yep, that's a NEVER buy device.

                That's the whole point, it's a RAID 5 device only.>
                Aww.. well - yep, crazy stupid device.

                Wait - if you only put SSDs in there, then it's probably usable, but still - crazy stupid device.

                You can try that. It's not a device that officially allows you to change the drives, though.

                aww.. it also comes pre populated.... yeah.. scratch that from the face of the earth.

                Oh yes, pre-pop only.

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender
                  last edited by

                  Why are we even talking about this POS?

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                  • dafyreD
                    dafyre @Dashrender
                    last edited by

                    @Dashrender said:

                    Why are we even talking about this POS?

                    Because you can?

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @dafyre
                      last edited by

                      @dafyre said:

                      @Dashrender said:

                      Why are we even talking about this POS?

                      Because you can?

                      because we can waste our time? I guess.

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                      • dafyreD
                        dafyre @Dashrender
                        last edited by

                        @Dashrender said:

                        @dafyre said:

                        @Dashrender said:

                        Why are we even talking about this POS?

                        Because you can?

                        because we can waste our time? I guess.

                        We're not wasting time. We're waiting for replies to other important topics. 🙂

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