JESUITS - gadget @ TTS -Ep3- Infrant ReadyNAS NV+
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On this episode of 'gadget' we take a look at the Infrant NV+ NAS. This box features 4 hot-swappable SATA bays and a dedicated RAID processor. It provides outstanding performance and RAID 0,1,5,X for data security.
'gadget' is a production of the Center for Apostolic Technology, a ministry of the California Province Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. Robert Ballecer is a Jesuit scholastic in the California Province, set to be ordained to the Roman Catholic Priesthood on the 9th of June, 2007. For more information about our show, or to download the high-resolution versions of our episodes, please visit
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Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: gadgettts
Length: 10:20
Rating: 4.7608695
Views: 229411
Tags: Jesuit Infrant uberGeek NV+ NAS RAID Apostolic x-raid ballecer MHT netgear Calprov
Video Comments
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grooveclubhouse (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
time to get your geek on. 5 stars for that!
pimpao68 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
NICE JOB, NETGEAR can't do better explanaition. TYVM
themountainviewguy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The more bays the more expensive the unit, incrementally, but the more useful and flexible it is too. I think 8 Bays would be great, and the ability to "VLAN" drives into at least 2 volumes might be nice as well. With every bay the 1/N overhead goes down ... and 8 to 10 bays seems like the natural level. That way you can grow your array and at various points decide to either expand horizontally or replace a few smal drives with larger ones as they get cheaper.
themountainviewguy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
> all I have to do to add more space is simply remove a drive and replace it with a bigger one.
This is my point, that is NOT all you have to do. If you have 4 drives of size X, putting a new drive of size Y, where Y > X will not help you one bit. You have to upgrade your whole array ... and it leaves you will 4 useless drives that are or little value to you.
You can start out with 2 drives, but then you waste 50% of your disks ... with all four drives you only waste 25% of your disks.
themountainviewguy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
And now Netgear/Infrant supports 2TB drives ... which I just filled my box with to give me 5.5 TB or redundant storage. Works very well so far ... just taking a long time to get data into or out of.
gadgettts (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
themountainviewguy,
No need to convert. The ReadyNAS OS will automatically do what it can to ensure that it is always 1-drive fail-tolerant. If you have two drives, it will mirror. 3 drives, it moves to RAID 5. 4 drives, more efficient RAID 5. Lose a drive out of 3 drive array and it will try to move back to mirroring. (Unless it can't because of a size problem.
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Peace,
Fr. Robert
themountainviewguy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Look into QNAP, they have boxes with all kinds of software services. The problem is their support and help is terrible.
themountainviewguy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
That took a while ... but you knew the answer so I'll try another. If you start with one drive, then put another in, can you mirror that drive with the data on it?
If so, then if you put another drive in, can you convert to RAID5?
The expense of fully stocking these bays at the beginning with 6 drive that will be obsolete when finally fill it with data is too great. So I would envision starting with a 2TB mirror, and then adding on with 2TB drives as they get cheaper.
gadgettts (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
TedTimmis,
Thanks for the kind comment. I wish everybody was as willing to see that Catholics can be geeky too! :)
I actually HAVE seen religious channels built into some of these Internet Radio enabled devices. The problem is that most of the GOOD Catholic content isn't indexed properly.
Hmmm... Perhaps THAT is something that I should start doing...
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Thanks again.
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Peace,
Fr. Robert
gadgettts (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
themountainviewguy,
Wow... never even saw this comment... thanks YT.
To answer your question: Yes... I've expanded with larger drives. Once you've replaced the last drive you just need to restart the ReadyNAS (sometimes twice) and it will come up with a new volume using ALL available disk space.
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Peace,
Fr. Robert |