Should I ditch the Bufalo Nas for ReadyNAS? AD issues!

[ittim]

Hi,

I've just bought a bufalo nas and despite the claims of AD intergration it is quite simply terrible.

I'm thinking of exchanging it for a Readynas.

What I need is Ad intergration so I can manage permissions on folders. I'd also like to be able to manage permissions in sub folders. (ie set individual folders to not inherit parent permissions)

Is this something I can do with a ready nas? I need 2 TB but i'm unsure which models are best suited. Its going to be used primarily in a small workgroup.

Thanks

[Grievous]

Yes the ReadyNAS can, and the Pro2 or Pro4 would work however I'd recommend the Pro4 for it's performance and upgrading the capacity later on if you need to.

[ittim]

Thanks Grievous,

Well the Buffalo has been returned so I'll probably pick one up.
Thanks

[mdgm]

Personally I'd generally recommend the Pro 6 but that may be overkill if you don't anticipate your amount of data you have to grow all that rapidly.

With the Pro 2, 2x2TB would give you a 1.8TB volume.
With the Pro 4, 4x2TB would give you a 5.4TB volume
With the Pro 6, 6x2TB would give you 9TB in single-redundancy or 7.2TB using dual-redunancy (dual-redundancy is available on the 6-bay units and requires at least 4-disks to be installed. It is not available on the 2-bay or 4-bay).

The Pro 4 is a good choice. You can start out with two disks and add more later as you need more space.

Take a look at X-RAID2 in Action (this shows single-redundancy).

[ittim]

Thanks, The Pro 2 seems sufficient, The mirrored drives should give us good enough performance. The Pro 4 just seems out of our price range.

My main concerns are those listed above re the active directory and a post I saw regarding the Readynas losing AD conenctions when the AD server re-boots. We take backups every night of our AD Controller and its on its own (for the time being) so I'm a little worried about having the same problem...

[ittim]

If I were to go for a Pro 4 would these drives give me equal or better performance than the Pro 2?

http://www.misco.co.uk/product/173131/S ... Hard-Drive

[mdgm]

Those drives are on the compatibility list: http://www.readynas.com/hcl

The Pro 2 CPU (CPU Specs of the ReadyNAS) is a little faster than that of the Pro 4.

You may also wish to take a look at ReadyNAS Pro Series Performance

[ittim]

Thank you for the info. Am I really likely to notice the difference between a Pro2 and a Pro4? They seem fairly even. (only had a quick scan through to be fair) I presume its the same firmware on thebox?

[mdgm]

Yes same firmware. Not that much difference in the CPU speed though the Pro 2 is a little faster so with 2 disks, the Pro 2 would be faster. With four disks in the Pro 4 for some things its faster than the Pro 2 but for others where the CPU not the disks is the bottleneck the Pro 2 is slightly faster. There's not much between them.

Of course the Pro 2 has a USB3 port on the front whereas the Pro 4 has no USB3 ports.

[ittim]

Excellent, Thanks for all the help. Think i'll go for the Pro 2 then.

[ittim]

Hello again,

Ok, I have my ReadyNas and I'm having trouble.

I have a folder set up with access to a group. Ie Sales.

So my sales users have got R/W access and nobody else has which is fine.
I have a sub folder in sales called 'test' I want to add a single user permision to the test folder to bob so that Sales and Bob can access the folder.

In a windows environment Bob should be able to access the test folder by going \\readynas\Nas\Sales\Test but he is denied permission.

Can I get around this at all?

[mdgm]

Not sure whether this is possible or not as my ReadyNAS units are not connected to my AD. Have you had a look at http://www.readynas.com/?p=1987?

[ittim]

Thanks Mdgm,

Yes I have thank you, however even that seems a little odd. Using the deny permissions on domain users just made it worse. When I set it us as I would in a Windows Environment it worked a lot better.