Netgear SC101 in Windows 7?

[hypaspazz]

Is there any way to get this proprietary POS to work in Windows 7 64bit?

Netgear has stopped supporting the device which they barely even got working on Vista 32bit. The device uses ZFS so I was wondering if there was a way to use it as a generic ZFS device..... I guess next question is whether there is a way of supporting ZFS in Windows 7?

Needless to say, Netgear has lost my business for future NAS purchases. I just can't trust that they will support their devices over the long haul.

 

[Gillbot]

According to Netgear, it doesn't work. I sent them an email asking if it just wasn't supported or it wouldn't even work but I never got an answer.

 

[JackMDS]

If it make you feel better the majority of the standalone sub $1009 NAS "Stinck".

In the past the main advantage of these Gizmos over a computer configured as a NAS was the Energy taking.

With the ITX ATOM board the diffeence is Not so much and it is much better using a computer as a NAS.

 

[skyking]

I came across one of those at a small business I started to support. All their eggs were in that one basket, so to speak. I did some research and convinced them they needed a change, since I could not put the drive in another computer and easily recover the files from it.

 

[hypaspazz]

I came across one of those at a small business I started to support. All their eggs were in that one basket, so to speak. I did some research and convinced them they needed a change, since I could not put the drive in another computer and easily recover the files from it.

I would say that was good advice. I am in the process of migrating all of the data to an Intel SS4200-E which runs a stripped down version of Linux (ext3 fs). It also allows the use of Windows Home Server but I am avoiding that for know since it does not support Raid.

Intel has already announced the end of this device but it has tons of remaining support from the tweakers community. As a home user I simply can't justify spending $1000+ but I still like the idea of having a NAS since I have five independent users in the house.

 

[drebo]

It also allows the use of Windows Home Server but I am avoiding that for know since it does not support Raid.

Why do people say things like this? RAID subsystems are completely abstracted from the overlying operating system. Windows Home Server doesn't need to "support" RAID.

Please do the rest of the IT community a favor and quit now, before you go and sour the market to all independent IT consultants.

 

[skyking]

Why do people say things like this? RAID subsystems are completely abstracted from the overlying operating system. Windows Home Server doesn't need to "support" RAID.

Please do the rest of the IT community a favor and quit now, before you go and sour the market to all independent IT consultants.

I don't know much about WHS but I do know it has a perfectly acceptable system for having your good stuff on more than 1 drive

 

[JackMDS]

RAID still has its use in professional Servers.

RAID was adopted by Enthusiasts because under certain circumstances it presented an advantage.

Since regular users do not know any thing about RAID, it also ended up as "Cult" buzz, and made Enthusiasts fell special even in cases that it was technologically useless.

Mean time the HD technology evolved (We do not ride Horses to work any more).

It would take time until people let go, but with the current Speed of the Huge new drives, and the redundancy capacity of WHS, there is No reason for RAID on Home servers.

 

[Emulex]

"with great power comes great responsibility.."

i think everyone needs to setup an intel matrix raid-5 and load it up and watch it fall apart (raid-hole) in a few weeks.

quite humbling.

i was thinking of loading up esx to virtualize WHS and opensolaris (try out this raid-z2). does WHS support iscsi like the rest of windows?

 

[hypaspazz]

OK, so what happens if the drive with the OS in WHS dies? If it cannot be recovered by swapping a disk in and reconstructing then I want no part of WHS for now. I really don't want to spend a solid day having to manually reconfigure WHS.

BTW, before you start bashing the fact that I am using RAID you should realize that I specifically bought the Intel SS4200-E because it has the flexibility to migrate to WHS if the included management software is lacking. If I simply wanted a RAID solution, I could have picked up any other NAS.

 

[JackMDS]

There is Nothing to reconfigure on WHS that takes more then an Hour.

If the drive died. You get a new Drive you install it and copy the data from the old drive.

 

[RebateMonger]

OK, so what happens if the drive with the OS in WHS dies? If it cannot be recovered by swapping a disk in and reconstructing then I want no part of WHS for now.

If the System disk fails, you swap in a new disk and do a re-install of WHS. It'll recognize any previous WHS Data disks and will re-index them and make them a part of the new WHS server. If you didn't have folder redundancy enabled, you'll lose any shared data that happened to be on the failed disk. But that's true of any server. If the failed disk can be read at all, you can attempt data recovery, since all the files in WHS are stored in standard NTFS-formatted partitions.

In my testing, the recovery process worked as-advertised.