NETGEAR ReadyNAS

RAIDiator 3.00c1-p1 Release Notes

This is the 3rd major release of the RAIDiator firmware for the ReadyNAS, arguably consisting of more changes than any previous Infrant firmware release to date. It is highly recommended that you update your ReadyNAS firmware to this release, as it contains numerous fixes and enhancements that we feel will provide better stability, compatibility with more devices, and more functionality.

You can choose to do a local update by first downloading the new image, or choose to do the quicker remote update, as the new image is now on our update server. If you wish to do a local update, you can download the new image here:

http://www.infrant.com/download/RAIDiator-3.00c1-p1


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CHANGES FROM RAIDiator 2.00c1-p9
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New FrontView UI
Dynamic menus allow you to go straight to the tab you wish, and menus have been reorganized for better functionality.

Scheduled Power-off
This works for all ReadyNAS systems, allowing you to power-off the ReadyNAS at a set weekly schedule. The option is available in the new System/Power Management tab.

Scheduled Power-on
Works in conjunction with the Scheduled Shutdown feature. This feature is available only for Rev B X6/600 and NV systems. The option is available on Rev B X6/600 upon upgrade to this release. The NV can experience a condition where it will not power on if at the time of the scheduled power-on, there is no power supplied to the NV. The only work-around for this is to release the clock battery on the main board for 5 secs. Instructions on how to do this will be provided. However, the power-on option is not provided for the NV by default – you will need to download an add-on to enable this option due to this potential for system lockup. If you understand this limitation, you can download the add-on at http://www.infrant.com/download/addons/ ... upport_0.1 . The option is available in the new System/Power Management tab.

Disk Spin-down
You can now set a disk inactivity timeout to allow your disks to go into spin-down mode. Due to the requirement for cooling the power supply which must be on during spin-down mode, the fan cannot be turned off. The fan will run at slower speed as the temperature of the disks lower. The effect of spinning down disks will reduce power consumption from 55W to 35W in idle mode. The option is available in the new System/Power Management tab.

Quieter Seagate Operation
Seagate disks will now run 5C hotter before fan speed increases due to better thermal specs of these drives.

Support for 750 GB Disks
You can now use up to 4 x 750 GB disks. RAIDiator will limit usage to 682 GiB per disk. 750 GB disks are equivalent to 698 GiB *, so 16 GiB out of each disk will remain unused.

VLAN Support
The ReadyNAS can now work in a VLAN network. The option is now available in the Network/Ethernet tab.

Users and Multiple Groups
Users can now belong to multiple groups allowing for increased flexibility in share access management.

New Streaming Services
Included in this release are Slim Server (now embedded) and iTunes Streaming service (allowing for iTunes applications to stream straight from the ReadyNAS).

TwonkyMedia Enhancement
Now you can separately assign a share and folder to music, video, and pictures instead of having one share contain all 3 media files. These options are only available when you install the TwonkyMedia add-on.

Bonjour Support
AFP, FrontView, Printers, and Slim Server now available over Bonjour for easier instantiation of these services.

IPP Printing Support
In conjunction with Bonjour, IPP Printing support allows for more seamless printing service for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.

Better Web Server Functionality
A new HTTP/S option allows redirection of HTTP/S access to a specified share. For instance, if you have a share called "album", you can have http://myhost requests redirected to http://myhost/album automatically so that your guests will not see your ReadyNAS share listing that they would normally see. You also have the option to enable/disable password requirement for this share regardless of what security mode you've selected. This option is available in the Services/Standard File Protocols tab.

WebDAV
With a WebDAV client, you can now drag & drop files over an Explorer type view to the ReadyNAS over LAN or WAN (with appropriate port forwarding). Use of WebDAV disables the standard simple Web File Manager. This option can be enabled on a per-share basis in the HTTP/S share access tab.

FTP as Backup Destination
An FTP server can now be specified as a backup destination for your ReadyNAS shares.

Better Backup Support for Windows
Non-standard characters are now supported, and incremental backups are now based on archive bit rather than timestamp to be closer in behavior to Windows.

Faster Mac Support
This release includes a nice performance boost over AFP. The performance should now rival performance over CIFS/SMB, but allow for the better filename and resource fork support expected in a Mac environment.

Faster FTP Support
This release includes a nice performance boost for FTP. FTP performance should now be close to that of CIFS/SMB.

Renamable USB Flash & Disks
You can now specify a more user friendly name to your USB devices in place of the default USB_FLASH_1 and USB_HDD_1 names.

Better SMART Disk Warnings
Daily alerts will be sent whenever bad sector or ATA error counts increase on a disk.

Ethernet Speed and Duplex Settings
Option to set speed (MTU) and duplex mode now supported. This requires an add-on downloadable at http://www.infrant.com/download/addons/ ... tSpeed_0.1

Minimum Fan RPM Override Support
This option is now available for advanced users who will replace the standard fan. An add-on to enable this option can be downloaded at http://www.infrant.com/download/addons/ ... erride_0.1 . Use of add-on may void your warranty as it may overheat the fan driver circuitry on the main board if the setting is too low. Use of Infrant recommended fans and settings is highly encouraged.

Schedule Snapshot Deletion
Snapshots can now have a duration time. This allows you to take a snapshot of your volume, perform a backup, and delete the snapshot after the backup window is over. Not having a snapshot beyond the required time eliminates the write performance penalty when the snapshot is not needed.

Other Changes
More detailed changes including bug fixes and minor enhancements available here.