Well I have received an RA number from the company I purchased the device from. They ran there own tests over the last week with the same results as mine. They also agree that the N299 manual seems to be for another product (n2100 anyone) with only minor changes made.
Its unfortunate really, Thecus have a very cheap entry level product here that would perform well if advertised correctly. If this device was sold with a NIC the CPU could support, the manual accurately described the device's capabilities and the n299 website links were up to date then it would a real winner.
I will not be buying another Thecus product until it has been thourghly tested and documented by users.
Anyway, Now I need to get 700gig of data off the 2 drives in JBOD mode. I just assumed that because the N299 manual stated it uses a journaled file system EXT2 or EXT3 or XFS or UFS or HFS I assumed, and because JBOD means no RAID at all, that I would be able to transfer the data quickly using linux. THis saves the 19 hour marathon data transfer session at 6-8 meg a sec. Well gparted shows some really intersting things that Thecus do to the disks, even in JBOD mode.
can anyone explain why they have done this to the drive, instead of just a 100meg partition for the firmware, a gig of swap and then data? any why is there raid file systems when I set the disk up in jbod? Both disks are the same btw.
Anyway, it doesnt matter ... Ill just have to have the N299 in my house for another day before I can get rid of it!
Cheers, Daniel