Recent content by alexandru

I use my NAS mainly for movies, music and irregular backups. Sometimes I just don't watch, listen to or backup anything for several days or even longer. Yes, yes, factory default³ + all but CIFS disabled, damn sure. I don't know, I'm still pretty sure it was a firmware issue, as well as with...

Well, that was the only thing Netgear support came up with aswell, BUT it is very inprobable, because: - Only CIFS enabled / no streaming clients etc. on LAN - Same problems even when NAS is disconnected from LAN - IDE NAS stays spun down (days, weeks, months.......) Not exactly, at...

I have the NV+ at my office, but I never even set up spin-down for this one. You are right, this was the reason I got the Seagates (in 2009). But after facing the exact same behaivor, despite repeating all troubleshooting steps, I turned (again) to the Netgear support, which enraged me so...

Hm, not a single specific suggestion so far.. Is that because nobody cares about that feature or because most NASes cope with this problem?

Sorry claykin, I intended to write that I sold my ReadyNAS, but apparently I somehow accidently deleted that sentence pefore posting. JFYI, had the same nickname as here (see this thread) and just remembered that I also had another really annoying issue with it. It was a RND2175 first with 2x...

As I wrote, I spend a lot of time on troubleshooting, also trying out every possible solution from the ReadyNAS-Forums, including some custom extensions that suposedly were to solve this issue. And the Netgear support was utterly useless. Of course I would not expect for a drive to stay spun...

Hi, I am looking for a NAS with a REALLY reliable spin-down function / power management. So far I had a ReadyNAS Duo (older model) and an Iomega ix2-200, which both had heavy issues (random spin-ups + spin-ups right after spin-down), making this feature basically useless. I went through...