Since I posted my original blog post just over a week ago about the issues we had with QNAP devices and data corruption after a failed disk, there has been a flurry of activity over at QNAP which has resulted in some very promising outcomes for their product and the community. Here’s a summary of what is happening. 1. QNAP have listened to our concerns and created a new … [Read more...]
QNAP fails to reveal data corruption bug that affects all 4 bay and higher NAS devices
There's no other way to put this, QNAP do not believe that a bug which risks corrupting your data on your QNAP NAS is worthwhile mentioning in their release notes at all. Starting in January this year, we began investigating what I suspected was a bug in the QNAP firmware on their NAS devices. Previously we had seen random corruption on a number of QNAP NAS devices owned by … [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...]
How can I reset my QNAP Admin password?
I’ve been playing with the QNAP TS410 recently – it’s part of my production and test LANs here at SBSFaq. After having played with it a bit in my test LAN, I decided that I was ready for using it in production as well. Only problem was I forgot my admin password Resetting it is easy. Locate the reset button on the rear of the TS-410. Press and hold it till … [Read more...]