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...]
Performance Testing non Windows based NAS devices
I decided to do some very basic performance testing of non Windows based NAS devices that I’ve got here at in my lab / production network. The aim of this is not to come up with a winner or loser, but to understand what levels of performance I might expect from these NAS devices. I’ll break this testing up into two categories, and tonight's blog post will feature the non … [Read more...]
Buffalo TeraStation Pro WSS Quad
Recently Buffalo approached me with an offer to try out their products to see if they had a fit for our clients in the SMB market. Given I’m playing with a few NAS devices at the moment, it was a great chance to take a look at something I’d not seriously done before. The local Aussie representative from Buffalo, Boris, kindly offered a Buffalo TeraStation Pro WSS Quad 4TB unit … [Read more...]
WD Sentinel DX 4000 – Initializing
Yesterday, my WD Sentinel DX 4000 appeared to have locked up – it had stopped responding to the front panel buttons. I wondered why it had done this and then I found I had inadvertently taken it off the UPS when I re-cabled some things the other day and I suspect we had a power fluctuation which caused it to glitch. Anyway – the only way to resolve this was to hard power it. … [Read more...]
Where can I get support for my WD DX 4000 Sentinel?
There’s an online support forum available here which seems to have a reasonable bit of traffic. … [Read more...]