Promise Comments: Quieting Down the Promise SmartStor NS4300N and NS4300N Review!

[PromiseNasDude]

no no! i'm not disappoint!

I relate only an personnal story, when i see a guy from nvidia get flamed because he was posting on a forum about some info.

I prefer to have someone like promisedude, but i'm know the reality of life

So i was saying some internal thinking

Thanks.. Sorry for the absence, but I have been out sick..

I will always be here.. Need anything, let me know.

Thanks.

 

[PromiseNasDude]

Thanks for your answer but I'm still having the same problem

I set NTP to 192.168.1.19

Domain or Workgroup Name to GCBBS
Domain Controller GCBBS.LOC

Administrator as login and entered the correct password.

I tried upper case, lower case, Name Case and rEVERSE cASE but still failed

Any more ideas??

Please see my previous post to you on this...


Thanks.

 

[PromiseNasDude]

Sorry to disappoint your bad thoughts about Promise. But PromiseNASDude has been out sick. He will return soon.

Thanks Tim!

 

[PromiseNasDude]

NS4300N SR5 Firmware List

Hi Everyone, here is the SR5 Firmware Release Notes for the NS4300N. SR5 will be posted tomorrow evening.

Firmware Feature Enhancements

1. Support Bonjour on system service (Such as AFP / iTunes /Printer Service / SMB / FTP)
2. Improve AFP performance.
3. Add file system check function.
4. Add AFP folder permission setting in WebPASM.
5. Change default user permission of share folder to Read/Write.
6. Add AFP protocol particular setting page in WebPASM.
7. Add a test button for email notification in WebPASM.
8. Turn off the HDD led when HDD is spin down.
9. Add 1.5TB HDD support.
10. Remove RAID5 migrate to RAID0 and RAID1 migrate to RAID0 feature.
11. Add recycle bin feature.
12. Add DDNS feature
13. Ability to disable Guest Access on the Public Directory
14. Turn on the system led to red color when using locate feature with NAS
15. Support port settings for SMTP
16. Supports read and write an USB drive with NTFS format.
17. Fix Special Characters with AD Domain

Firmware Fixes

1. Fix Bug, User can not mount AFP share folder at Mac after AC power has been interrupted.

 

[andymemo]

NS4300N Rev.B

Hey PromiseNasDude,

What can a say but 'WOW'. Whats a mission! You've been replying like a machine! (Are you human or a bot? )

Thanks for the replies and I hope your health is back on form now.

Unfortunately, I ended up returning my NS4300 (the fan noise was to just toooooo irritating) to our supplier, based on advise from eSupport. They advised that SR5 would be due around 'early to mid November' & whilst this will have lots of feature enhancements and fixes, eSupport advised it will not add variable fan control - for this I require Rev.B of the unit - due 'Mid November'...
Are you able to advise on an ETA of Rev.B as I currently have 3 x 1.5TB HDD's sat in bags

Thanks,

Andy

 

[nusul]

Hi Cip, we are working on the NS4600 now. It will be released in Q1. More details to come in December/Jan.

Stay Tuned...

Do you have a main killer new feature? Because I need a new one and peharps i must wait some months?

 

[nusul]

Promisedude:
- Is there no way to shutdown the fan when the hdd is spin down ? Without change the board?
- Is there a way to check the fragmentation?
- Do you know a resseller in france?

 

[PromiseNasDude]

Hey PromiseNasDude,

What can a say but 'WOW'. Whats a mission! You've been replying like a machine! (Are you human or a bot? )

Thanks for the replies and I hope your health is back on form now.

Unfortunately, I ended up returning my NS4300 (the fan noise was to just toooooo irritating) to our supplier, based on advise from eSupport. They advised that SR5 would be due around 'early to mid November' & whilst this will have lots of feature enhancements and fixes, eSupport advised it will not add variable fan control - for this I require Rev.B of the unit - due 'Mid November'...
Are you able to advise on an ETA of Rev.B as I currently have 3 x 1.5TB HDD's sat in bags

Thanks,

Andy

Hi Andy, Rev B will be available in early December. Units are in manufacturing now.

Thanks..

 

[PromiseNasDude]

Do you have a main killer new feature? Because I need a new one and peharps i must wait some months?

One thing I can say is performance. Expect performance of a 600 to 900 dollar product at less than 499.00. This product will not replace the NS4300N. More to come soon..

Thanks.

 

[PromiseNasDude]

Promisedude:
- Is there no way to shutdown the fan when the hdd is spin down ? Without change the board?

Sorry, this is Rev B only..

- Is there a way to check the fragmentation?

SR5 FW has a manual File System Check option which checks for File System Errors (and repairs). No Defrag feature. You experiencing issues with Fragmentation such as an impact on performance?

- Do you know a resseller in france?

Yes, I will acquire a list for you this evening from our team in Europe.

Stay Tuned..

Thanks.

 

[nusul]

Thanks a lot for all.

For the fragmentation, i don't know because i cannot check it, but i think i have some loss in the performance

 

[j.hu]

Rev. B in December

I set up a Rev. A(?) for a friend earlier this year and he loves it - except the fan noise. He actually powers the unit down when not in use.

I am glad to hear you guys are releasing a Rev. B with quieter fans. I may have to pick one up for myself.

Thanks!

 

[Unregistered]

Where is SR5? I still do not see it posted... I only see the release notes posted.


Thanks!

 

[vwphaeton]

So does this mean those of us with Rev A boxes, will not get upgrades to Rev B? O man i missed the boat on this one.

 

[SasquatchPDX]

NTFS on SR5?

Has anyone gotten the NS4300n to read an NTFS USB drive successfully? I've got SR5 installed, but have had no luck.

 

[nusul]

where do you find it? i see only the release notes on the website

 

[vwphaeton]

Upgrade to SR5 my notes so far

So PromiseNasDude was kind enought to send me the link for SR5.. I downloaded it.

Moved all my stuff off of the 4 one TB drives i had in the ns4300. That took about 36 hours.

While that was going i cleared the 4 1.5TB drives that i had in raid on my desktop to a backup location. That took significantly less time around 14 hours.

I populated the 1.5s in the drive and powered it up ready to perform the sr5 upgrade...

One small snafu, i should have upgraded before plugging in the 1.5s its throwing me file system errors etc.

More to come

 

[vwphaeton]

SR 5 is still no joy for me

My 4 1.5 TB drives in RAID 0 still create file system errors after upgrading to SR5. Creating a new volume worked great. Formatting went fine. When it came back up, like a dummy i started copying files.. luckily it was copying and not moving.. I decided to do a reboot and wham the RED light with check file system as the only option I can do.

Please tell me I did something wrong. I'm gonna PM Nasdude I hope hes around.,

 

[vwphaeton]

Update

I have been able to keep the 4 1.5 TB drives in place but have to run them as two raid arrays so they are running raid 0. This has been rebooted and seems to run ok, the only issue i have is that i really wanted one array to keep the files together.

 

[wolfirr]

File System contains errors. Please vheck....before upgrading to 1.05

Hello PromiseNASDude,
just wanted to upgrade my NAS today to 1.05. As I wanted to connect a directory via CIFS, I recognised, that I could not. Checking with the web interface, I found the above message in most of the menu pictures of PASM.

Happily I found that my linux workstation was still connected via NFS and I could backup most of my data.

So what should I do now to remove the file system errors? And to upgrade to 1.05?

Regards
Wolfgang