NAS rebooting modem problem?

[Harrison]

The Netgear ReadyNAS units have been getting some very good reviews in recent months. I friend has the 4 drive version and has been very happy with that running a RAID 5 setup. No problems to date with it either.

In long testing reviews/features I've read, whilst te QNAP NAS's have received good initial reviews, they can start to cause issues when a drive develops some bad sectors, and can lock up the client PCs access the NAS. In contrast the Netgear ReadyNAS has continued to handle faulty HDDs very well and handled the data by continuing to serve it from the other good drives until the faulty one was replaced. I would therefore recommend the Netgear based on what I've read so far.

There was a recent review of a couple of new business NAS units that were very good. I will dig those out and post what they were for you in the morning in case they were also something worth looking at.

[Demon Cleaner]

What about the Thecus N7700+? Seems to be very good.

And I'm also struggling about which brand and model of HDDs I would use, as I read on some sites that several HDDs are not suited for Raid and fail after a short time. I want to use Raid 5.

[Harrison]

You can get HDDs that are specifically designed for RAID use, but these are obviously more expensive because they are designed for heavy server use. I've heard some negatives about Samsung and Seagate when used for NAS which are my 2 favourite makes, so that doesn't help. Not sure really. Maybe WD are more recommended for this use? Will see if I have any information on this for you.

[Demon Cleaner]

I read that WD disks tend to fail.

Btw, I could get the Netgear NAS at the shop where I always order for 1099€ with the disks already built in, and that would be 6 2TB Seagate Barracuda Green disks.

Still interested about the Thecus though, they have also a lot of pro stuff, I checked their site. Although I never heard about that brand before. Did you?

[Harrison]

I have heard about Thecus. They have been getting more mention in recent business NAS reviews. I will post some more when i find the reviews for you.

The NetGear NAS with 6x 2TB drives for €1099 sounds pretty good. Although remember you can now buy standalone Seagate and Samsung 2TB drives for around £60 (€68), so 6 standalone drives would cost £360 (€408), so you would have to ask if the NAS device itself is worth the additional £609 (€691) on top of the drives real value?

[Demon Cleaner]

The Netgear NAS (diskless) costs 729€, so they ask 370€ for the 6 disks, which is 61.50€/disk, quite the same than if I would order them seperately.

Today I just copied something to my NAS, and shortly after my modem again restarted twice, don't really know what the problem is. I don't also have the time to test this now, leaving the NAS on/off then see if it happens again. Tonight when I come home I will check the event log of my modem, then I will see if it restarted again or not, although you only see the last time it logged in, you don't see if it did it only once or 10 times.

[Harrison]

If it does it again, do you have a separate network switch you could use to test it? I would create a small network with just one PC, a network switch and the NAS, and see how it acts on this small network just copying files between the NAS and PC. That should show if there is any issue directly with the NAS itself.

Also has anyone else online posted anything similar about this NAS causing these issues?

I'm personally still thinking it is an overheating or PSU issue with your current router/modem.