Btrfs the file system of the future but The last I heard mdadm raid manager was seriously flawed wrt raid 5 & 6, and the btrfs group had decided to ignore the fix.
Netgear sorry but you failed again. I'll never buy your prosumer NAS units, they miss (like in the past) a small but fundamental detail: ECC RAM. It doesn't make any sense to use a beautiful file system like btrfs and it's cow feature and then not putting ECC RAM. People buy a premium for your products (which are good!) but you can't leave ECC behind. Not all consumers/prosumers are stupid. You could do it.. I don't need a pricy and powerful XEON cpu to have ECC with your units. I'll go the custom way with FreeNAS for half the price and with more OS offered features. It's been your miserable choice.
500 and 600 series have ECC RAM. 400 series doesn't. If you are that worried about ECC, and need a COTS NAS, choose one of the former. Of course, if you are building custom with FreeNAS, you can - these types of COTS units are meant for consumers and businesses that want something working right out of the box with minimal work, and where support is just a phone call away.
The target market for COTS NAS units is way different from what you are thinking (and I can tell that from 6+ years of covering this industry about where these vendors are making the money from).
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etamin - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
Not very relevant...but these are incredibly ugly.Shadow7037932 - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
Not really an issue since these things will probably be out of sight in most cases.drajitshnew - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
Btrfs the file system of the future but The last I heard mdadm raid manager was seriously flawed wrt raid 5 & 6, and the btrfs group had decided to ignore the fix.Michael Bay - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
>no checksum>life of torture on loonix
Of course btrfs would seem like an upgrade.
drajitshnew - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
Also, I would like to know whether these NAS implement the CORE feature of btrfs -- CHECKSUMMING.evancox10 - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
Yes. I have a ReadyNAS 314 that uses btrfs, and it has an option to turn on checksumming. I can only assume the newer ones do toohorizonbrave - Monday, January 9, 2017 - link
Netgear sorry but you failed again. I'll never buy your prosumer NAS units, they miss (like in the past) a small but fundamental detail: ECC RAM. It doesn't make any sense to use a beautiful file system like btrfs and it's cow feature and then not putting ECC RAM. People buy a premium for your products (which are good!) but you can't leave ECC behind. Not all consumers/prosumers are stupid. You could do it.. I don't need a pricy and powerful XEON cpu to have ECC with your units. I'll go the custom way with FreeNAS for half the price and with more OS offered features. It's been your miserable choice.ganeshts - Monday, January 9, 2017 - link
Did you even read the spec tables?500 and 600 series have ECC RAM. 400 series doesn't. If you are that worried about ECC, and need a COTS NAS, choose one of the former. Of course, if you are building custom with FreeNAS, you can - these types of COTS units are meant for consumers and businesses that want something working right out of the box with minimal work, and where support is just a phone call away.
The target market for COTS NAS units is way different from what you are thinking (and I can tell that from 6+ years of covering this industry about where these vendors are making the money from).