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Hi Guys!
Thank you all for a very informative thread (espacially fixuser)! I bought my HD636N today and have read your thread here and I have learnt a lot. Now I have two questions. 1. My device seem to have firmware version NetHDD005-0601, is this a new version? On Argosy's website the download says NetHDD004-0317, have they forgotten to update the download? 2. Where do I get the Beta fw? The link posted here doesn't work any more. /M |
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Maximus:
Depending on which brand you have (Argosy or Tritton) depends on the firmware you can get. Argosy seems slow, and Tritton seems fast. I couldn't get the link to work either, so maybe they took it down or moved it. |
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I saw somewhere here in the thread that the fan didn't wind down and
stop when the drive went to sleep, I just wanted to tell you that mine does. /M (The man who still can't find the Beta fw) |
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The Tritton beta is no longer available on their site(the link posted
by fixuser), but the downloads page still has the old firmware. Does anybody know if they're releasing an update? I am definitely having the wireless issues. Works fine wired, wireless I get disconnects to the NAS but nothing else. MC |
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I found this at Argosy:
http://www.argosyusa.net/driver/Argo...DD006-0804.zip The version number is similar to the Tritton beta. |
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There is no adding of years with my fw, but the truncating of seconds
still remain. I transfered a file stamped 1991-06-05 18:55:56 and it ended up with the stamp 1991-06-05 18:55:00. I tried a couple of other files as well with the same result. I am curious about the new fw that popped up here, the Argosy-NetHDD006-0804. Has anyone tried it? |
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tommiewrote:
I found this at Argosy: http://www.argosyusa.net/driver/Argo...DD006-0804.zip The version number is similar to the Tritton beta. Does upgrading to this firmware require you to reformat the drive like some of the older firmwares? |
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Finally got my hands on a couple of the Argosy units recently, and I
think I'm beginning to see where some of the limitations come into play. SNAS05-0607 (Tritton) is the most recent firmware I've tried so far. Simple file copying hasn't been bad, as long as there aren't multiple sessions (simultaneous operations) going - even between the NAS box and a single client PC. Things can crawl with two or more going though. Where performance really falls down seems to be random operations and rapid short file creation/deletion. I haven't tried PST files yet, but Jet ("Access") databases can really crawl, especially on query operations against even a small database. I haven't experienced data corruption, just some really sad performance. Some of this can be moderated by keeping database connections open throughout a session instead of using the generally more scalable and reliable open-act-close technique. Some significant performance (responsiveness) penalty is expected with the latter technique of course... but this is ridiculous. I attribute most of this to the tiny (or no) disk cache in the NAS box along with an SMB implementation no better (or worse?) than SAMBA offers. Basically these devices have to be viewed as "tape drives." I'd thought people viewing these things as backup devices to be a bit unsophisticated. The truth seems to be that this may be the only real target application for these machines. For comparison I took an old computer here that has a Celeron 400 and 128MB of RAM, and installed and patched up (as much as I can at this point, support being what it is) Windows 95 OSR 2.1 as a dumb file server of the type these units represent - share level passwords. I stripped out (avoided installing) any protocols but TCP/IP and Windows file/print sharing, and did a few disk cache tweaks but nothing out of the ordinary. To really be fair I probably ought to be using a 486 with 16 MB or something... but realistically that's a doorstop today. Almost nobody would bother running one, and a machine of the specs I'm testing is a nearly free item today as a used computer goes. Needless to say, the Win95 box runs rings around the Argosy/Tritton box. None of the headaches with Jet either. Response is smooth and fast, even with NetMeeting RDS running (as a remote-admin tool). It would be trivial to connect a parallel printer and/or a couple of USB printers, put in 3 hard drives and an optical drive, etc. This is an old slimline Dell Optiplex, and runs cool and quiet - though it is obviously more bulky than these tiny NAS devices. Windows 95 or 98 are a bit pricier than a Linux/SMB combo for the same hardware - but with none of the headaches or quirks. I really wanted these things to work. I had high hopes. Right now I am having my doubts though. I'll give that beta firmware a shot but I suspect the real limitation is the hardware (RAM) available and the resulting lack of disk cache. |
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Trying the Argosy 06-0804 firmware now.
Still a little sluggish, but much better than prior firmware levels, even using a lot of Jet I/O. Significantly improved usability. I have to say they are doing something right now. I'll watch for file corruption. By the way, multiple simultaneous activities seem to operate more smoothly as well (i.e. playing an MP3 from the NAS while performing Jet operations on an MDB). |
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hI, I am trying to use a program called Allways Sync to keep
directories in Sync, its free and it works great! However, I bought this thing and with the tritton 607 firmware it could never sync, with the beta firmware, I now get these errors when trying to copy files..... any ideas.... thanks mattp 8/31/2005 11:38 PM, API call error, Network access is denied. (80070041), Error when copying 'E:\libby\My Music\Sample Music.lnk' to '\\Homenas\libsbackup\My Music\Sample Music.lnk' using intermediate '\\Homenas\libsbackup\_sync.app\temp\4016993C70D38 F3D73941A6F89C74A8D.tmp' |
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