Does this support SMART utility monitoring? Is it smart enough to identify a crashed drive?
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I had the same problem that Vincent had. Some broken hard drives hang the unit. Also, if I recall correctly, some modes report SMART information, some don't.
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The unit comes with a software utility that will alert you to a problem drive. There is also a light on the front panel that indicates a drive failure and indicator lights for the individual drives. This has all worked fine for me with the exception of one drive that was damaged in such a way it hung the Mediasonic unit.
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I assume Ubuntu autodetected it? I am running Fedora, and no luck yet. I may have to dig deeper to find anything, but I'm sure it can be done.
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I investigated this and the drive accepts "smartctl -l scterc,70,70" and echoes back the values properly after "smartctl -l scterc". I was unable to get the setting to be preserved across power cycles, so it would have to be repeated on each boot. I did not absolutely prove that the setting definitely has the desired effect, but the tentative presumption is that it does. I am using ZFS, so I do not really need this feature and am not using it.
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I am uncertain...I purchased it solely for the hardware features such as ease of swapping hard-drives and the manual power switch. I did not investigate if software exists to perform an automatic power mode toggle and backup.
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Yes, it is. I used it to access a Windows 7 drive in which the computer tower had burned in a house fire. I plugged the Win 7 drive into a Windows XP tower as a secondary drive. When I turned the Windows XP computer on, it started normally and showed the damaged drive with no problem whatsoever. I retrieved all data on the damaged drive with no loss of files or data at all.
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Yes, that is what we have ours connected to. You may have to reformat the drive by using disk utilities.
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I'm only using the one drive it came with right now. It might have software raid. You can ask the seller via their support link at deepdiscountservers.com.
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Control Panel, Admin tools, disk management should see the drive even if not formatted yet. If it does not then you have a defective unit.
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You can hook up the drive but you might need a recovery program - I suggest "icare" - good program.
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The RocketRAID 640L is supported under WHS 2012 (that's what my server runs) but the SMART data is only accessible under the controller card's own user interface. The good news it that support for maintenance data is quite complete. I've been running the 640L card for a couple of years now and it operated through two hard drive failures without data loss (use WD Black drives, I've had good luck with them). The setup documentation is cryptic but you can work your way through it.
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True. My network specialist advised to try a free recovery utility such as Recuva. All data may not be retrieved in tact, but it might be worth a shot.
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
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Google "Very Cheap TED 1001 House Power Monitors (and possible hacking)". You can run a perl or pyhon script to get the data on linux if your computer savy.
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I'm not sure. Interesting application, so the whole network could access the drive, but I think you'd have to reach out to the manufacturer for that one.
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I do not recall if we've tried that.. but would guess it does since it needs to keep a lot of config stuff saved - particularly if you get the WIFI dongle thingie..Actually, now that I think about it, I think we've had some power failures since we installed ours and I don't recall having to do anything after the power came back.. Perhaps someone else can chime in too to ensure I'm not wrong..
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I have not had a power failure yet but once power comes on, modem and wireless router will reset automatically. Although computers and smartphones are setup to automatically connect to wireless routers, on rare occasions they do require operator intervention. I would imagine the cyberstat would behave in the same way.
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Not quite - it can be configured to monitor many types of UPS, either via SNMP or a USB connection, and it will do a graceful shutdown, but at this time it will not power back up when power is restored. The power on functionality may be added later, but there is no guarantee.It can be remotely powered on using Wake-on-LAN and I have been able to use this in a workaround to get my RN102 repowered automatically