No news is excellent news

by Volker Weber

netgear rnd4225

It's been more than two weeks since I installed the Netgear ReadyNAS storage, and there is absolutely nothing to report. Zero. Nil. This thing works as advertised. It is way, way faster than the NSLU2 I used before. Stable, fast, invisible.

One thing to note: it's not quiet. You don't want it in your living room or your studio. It's bearable in an office environment, because its noise level is comparable to a PC. The machine sits about seven meters away from me, and I can hear it, unlike any other machine (Thinkpads, iMac, NSLU with two USB drives) in the office. I don't hear the disks but there is a constant hum from the fan milling at 2142 revs.

readynas

Two months from now the ReadyNAS will go into a rack in the basement and I won't even care whether it makes any sound at all. ;-)

Comments

I run the same model with 4 x 1.0TB drives.

After a full backup, I upgraded to the latest beta firmware which breaks that 2GB volume size limit.

It works very well, with no hiccups for me, even on the beta code.

http://www.infrant.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12447

I previously used a Buffalo Terastation. The Infrant is much more flexible, faster (hardware not software RAID) but a little noisier.

Ben Rose, 2007-08-17 00:14

I love that ReadyNAS widget you got there. Mind to tell me where it originates from? Is there a Win32 version of that widget e.g. for konfabulator or the vista sidebar (argh)?

Sascha, as I've written here you'll find the Mac widget there ;) As for Windows / Konfabulator: Nope, there isn't one. Not that I would care, just thought I'd pass the info along.

Is it maybe possible to install a better fan, with less rpm, and especially less noise? Has someone done this already and his disks have survived?

Stefan, thank you alot ;-)

Dirk, technically there would no problem to install whatever silent or nearly noiseless fan available. I see the problem with "breaking up the case" and voiding any and all warranties that are on the device itself.

Okay breaking it up sounds a little bit violent ;)

Personally, given any choice between cool drives and silent operation I would always opt for the former.

The fan speed adjust based on room temperature, in a cold room it can't be heard over the air conditioner ;-)

Ben Rose, 2007-08-17 11:11

Ben, I can assure you that in a warm (well, some would call it hot even) room it can't be heared over the sweet sound emanating from some quad cpu servers either ;)

Post a comment











Shall I remember this for you?




Use your full name and a working email address. Unless you want your comment to be removed. No kidding.



Recent comments

Yury Kats on Site news: Chrome already accounts for almost 10% of page hits at 02:59
Volker Weber on BIS customers now getting instant IMAP e-mail at 23:04
Stuart Mcintyre on BIS customers now getting instant IMAP e-mail at 22:59
Volker Weber on BIS customers now getting instant IMAP e-mail at 22:09
Jan-Piet Mens on BIS customers now getting instant IMAP e-mail at 22:01
Ingo Seifert on Nur bei Regen at 19:53
Dirk Steins on Nur bei Regen at 09:01
Carl Tyler on Everybody's PIN Number: Revealed! at 01:09
Armin Roth on Everybody's PIN Number: Revealed! at 00:43
Frank L. Quednau on Everybody's PIN Number: Revealed! at 23:42
Volker Weber on Everybody's PIN Number: Revealed! at 22:00
Chris Linfoot on Everybody's PIN Number: Revealed! at 21:57
Jan-Piet Mens on Everybody's PIN Number: Revealed! at 21:39
Marco Klop on Synchronizing iPhone with ... Lotus Notes at 18:55
sunny gerscky on Pwnage 2.0 released at 16:00
Tobias Lange on Remember, it's always the cable at 13:16
Volker Weber on Remember, it's always the cable at 12:21
Ian White on Remember, it's always the cable at 11:56
Andy Brunner on Remember, it's always the cable at 11:37
Ben Rose on Remember, it's always the cable at 11:33
Ben Poole on It has only been less than two hours at 09:44
Frank L. Quednau on It has only been less than two hours at 09:29
Martin Hiegl on It has only been less than two hours at 08:27
Stephan H. Wissel on Notes.ini parameter RunFaster=1 is finally here at 05:24
Volker Weber on It has only been less than two hours at 01:33

Ceci n'est pas un blog

vowe.net is a personal website published by Volker Weber a.k.a. vowe. I am an author, consultant and systems architect based in Darmstadt, Germany.

rss Click here to subscribe

Hello

About me
Contact
Publications
Certificates
Frequently asked questions

Twitter Updates

More >

Poll

Can you bring a camera phone to work?

Getting poll results. Please wait...

Local time is 09:09

visitors.gif
120 visitors online

News

Other sources of news, imported into my own format to make them more accessible:

Heise Online
Schlagzeilen
Weather

Archives

As most of my articles roll off the front page rather quickly, I am making an archive of previous posts available here. You can also use the handy search box at the top of the page if you are looking for something particular.

Last 30 days
More archives

Got the T-shirt?

Got the T-shirt?
Are you buying from the US?

Systems Architecture

This site runs on an Apache web server on top of the Linux operating system. The content is managed with MovableType which is implemented in Perl. Last but not least the HTML code your browser sees is put together with PHP.

© 1992-2008 Volker Weber.
All Rights Reserved.

Impressum