I’ve had a Western Digital WD DX 4000 8TB model for quite a few years now, and it’s doing great duty storing offsite backups from my home here in my office. However this week I had one of the 2TB drives fail with clicking and grinding. No issues, the WD is in RAID5 therefore my data is protected. The challenge however is that WD only tested specific drives with the Sentinel … [Read more...]
Western Digital DL4100 NAS
I’m often invited to participate in various beta programs by vendors. I love to play with the new toys and more importantly help them debug and refine the product to suit its intended market. The WD DL4100 is no exception. I’ve been fortunate to have this in my lab now for several months, during which WD went through a number of reviews of different features and kept … [Read more...]
How can I migrate to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials or Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Essentials Experience?
This is something we’ve been doing more of late, migrating customers from SBS 2003, SBS 2008 or even SBS 2011 over to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials or more interestingly, the full version of Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard with the Essentials Experience role added in. When we do this, the email side of things means that clients email needs to be migrated to either … [Read more...]
WD DX 4000 – Software Update Available v1.5.7.30
I’ve been away for a few days and came back to find that my WD Sentinel DX4000 has software updates available for it. You can do the update manually or enable it to do automatic updates. Personally I prefer to do manual updates on a number of my key servers so that I can review what has changed prior to installing the update. You can check out what is now in … [Read more...]
Performance testing Windows based NAS devices
Following on from last nights article about Performance Testing of non Windows based NAS devices, tonight, I’ll give you some results of some of the NAS devices that are based on Windows. As I said last night, this is all about getting a general feel for the performance of these devices vs categorical winners and losers and it’s based on what I happen to have in my lab / … [Read more...]