I'm thinking about buying a N3200 but reading that there are problems with RAID array corrupting or the device crashing when copying large amounts of data are a bit worrying.
I'm wanting to have a system with hop swappable drives as I'm worried that my Maxtor NAS box is on it's way out as it keeps dropping the connection and I was all my data on that device so want to setup RAID 5 to protect my data.
Any feedback on this device good or bad would really help...
anyone?
Also what is the difference between the N3200 and N3800?
The only comon thing between this two device is the case...
You can have full descriptions on the thecus website.
Originally Posted by slypie
The 3800 is new - uses a different CPU to teh 3200 and has a built in MEDIA PLAYER as well as the server s/w of the 3200.
It's the same case - three-drive system.
Cheers for the replies guys.
SO, did you get it ??
what do you think of it ?
I'm thinking about buying a N3200 but reading that there are problems with RAID array corrupting or the device crashing when copying large amounts of data are a bit worrying.
I'm wanting to have a system with hop swappable drives as I'm worried that my Maxtor NAS box is on it's way out as it keeps dropping the connection and I was all my data on that device so want to setup RAID 5 to protect my data.
Any feedback on this device good or bad would really help...
Yeah, i think so.silkroad gold how about this game gold at website??????? do you think its cheap enough for me.
can you help me with my game gold ?? i want to get more cheap gold for the psu xbox 360 meseta.
Dear Sir,
Please try on N3200 latest beta version firmware V1.00.04.1, this version enchane the stability from Freescale on Dec 2008:
http://www.thecus.com/Downloads/beta..._1.00.04.1.bin
http://www.thecus.com/Downloads/beta..._1.00.04.1.txt
I disagree about the stability. I upgraded to that version last week. Due to Thecus no guarantee that my data would be safe during firmware upgrade I had to copy 480gigs to another device.
After a successful upgrade I tried to copy the data back which resulted in the N3200 crashing twice with a loud constant beep and a message on the lcd similar to "System Unavailable" (I can't remember the exact message). Pressing any of the buttons did not help. I had to physically remove the power cable from the back of the N3200, reboot and restart my data copy. NOT A GOOD THING TO HAVE TO DO.
Obviously I'm pretty worried about my data at this stage so once all files were copied I then had to do an integrity check of the files between the new N3200 and the backed up device. There were some errors found but luckily they were only small unimportant files. I 'd hate to think if it were a large file or a video of one of my kids. THIS WAS ALL A MASSIVE WASTE OF A LOT OF MY TIME !!!!!!
All of that is just the reliability. I'm also very unhappy with it's set of features
e.g.
1) the waste of the 3rd drive which I'm informed cannot be used for anything other than a spare if one of the other 2 drives dies. cannot even use it as a jbod if you already have a raid setup with the other 2 drives.
2) I had upgraded from 2 x 500gig drives to 2 x 1terabyte drives but could not expand the raid hence having to copy off 480 gigs of data rebuild the raid and then copy back .... Why bother having a 3 drive raid device if you cannot use one of the drives and cannot upgrade to newer drives ??????????????
3) lack of a web server
4) No xbox360 support
All in all.... an expensive unit. I could have got a better Netgear or Qnap Nas for cheaper
A new official firmware is available today :
http://www.thecus.com/download.php?pid=48
Huh ??
Spiken, How is v1.00.04 from your link newer than the v1.00.04.1 link that Yvon posted above and which I already installed ??
On your link it's probably just the date that version was posted on Thecus' website
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