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tivo4ever · Member Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

I wanted to let others know that I recently purchased a TRI-NSS001 enclosure made by tritton technologies from tigerdirect for 79$(89-10 rebate). (same box as the HD363N)

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1209341

It had firmware level NetHDD007-1005 loaded on it. I could not get this level to work properly. I would copy a .txt file or .jpg file to the nas and try to look at it and got 'unknown' file type(using windows xp)....After reading this forum one append said to stick with the tritton firmware. I took that advice and downloaded what apppeared to be a lower level of firmware at NetHDD006-1013. Well, the lower level resolved all my problems. The box works perfect now. Hard to believe that Tritton would ship a box with code that doesn't work. I got a a seagate 400GB drive for 109$, so for around 200$, I got something that I'm satisfied with so far.

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Hi All.

So I upgraded from Tritton's firmware to Argosy's firmware in order to use it with Windows Vista (and I was pleasantly surprised to find it works with OSX as well). For over a month things have been fine.

Recently I discovered some files were corrupt. I couldn't figure out why, so I did a test, sending a file from Vista to the drive and then back from the drive to Vista. When I tried to open the file it was corrupt.

So it looks like the drive is now corrupting my files. What can I do? Is this a firmware issue or is it because I went from Tritton to Argosy? Are all my files scr**ed now? Can I still yank the drive and put it in a firewire case and save my files?

ukcobra · Forum Regular Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

It appears my Power Supply has died, anyone got an idea where I can get a replacement ?

ukcobra · Forum Regular Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

It's worse than that, the device is not powering up either.

Looks like time to find a new unit.

rob040 · Member Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 1

Hi,

I purchased two of the Argosy HD363N's and both of them show the same problem. When I am copying files from my PC to the NAS, the connecting gets lost and the green led is blinking (long off, long on). The device is not responding to anything (also stand-by switch doesn't work), HDD and fan keep on running. The latest firmware was already in. I had this several times, while copying large amounts of files.

I read all the previous posts and learned that this device is not suited for professional use, but in my opinion it should be able to backup my internal HDD to this HD363N without problems.
In the device I mounted a Western Digital 250GB harddisk (WD2500JB).

Anyone facing the same problem (f.i. the blinking led in that frequency)?

Regards,

Rob.

roadkill · Contributor Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 5

I found a newer firmware:
http://www.argosyusa.net/driver/NetHDD007-1127.zip
Same firmware version is also on the INOi site:
http://www.inoi.com/English/download/NetHDD007-1127.zip

I loaded it and the drive scanned with no errors. I'm presently streaming video from it while I'm writing some zip files to it, sometimes two at once. So far, it hasn't barfed so it appears like a good firmware! No release notes unfortunately...

Edit: A day later it is still running flawlessly. Since the previous firware I've been going a couple months between crashes but I don't usually do multiple simultanious transfers as that used to crash it. I'll repost here if I have any crashes wink

roadkill · Contributor Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 5

I see some pretty poor throughputs mentioned in reviews using older firmwares so I thought I'd document what I'm seeing. Transfering a 100Mb file I get 5000 KB/s reading from and 3200KB/s writing to the NAS. One review had reading at 1300KB/s and writing at 2000KB/s so they have improved that quite a bit! This was tested on a 100 Mb/s wired LAN with no other traffic which has a theoretical throughput of 12500KB/s.

I also tested reading on my two wireless LANs, also with no other traffic:
802.1b = 650 Kb/s
802.1g = 2200 Kb/s
These are both near enough the theoretical throughputs to say that the NAS can saturate those "pipes"

Happy NASing,
Ron