WalkerPad

I was hoping to add dads but he couldn’t figure out Amazon wish lists, or something with his accounts. Looks like there UI could use a little work at least for the non technical… So anyway here is ours, and if anyone else wants to one or email me I’ll add it to the list for general family reference. Or you could all just hope you don’t get fruit cake and nitted socks =).

Kaily
Charise
Griffon
Yeah ok it *is* a wish list so don’t *tsk* me for rdiculously exspensive camera lenses and what not, I buy that stuff for myself (or well not these days :p ), but I use my list as a memory bank for such things .

To make a long story short I bought a Netgear SC101 SAN, added two seagate 300gig drives to it and and told to mirror them for redundancy. I should have done more research this being a SAN rather then a more convention NAS dose not allow UNC connections and requires some proprietary software, you also can’t just mount drive should you have problems.

I have had some problems. It ate a ton o my data, including the thanks giving pictures. Poof, gone. You try to do the right thing and have a backup system but when your back redundant data protection system is the source of the failure… well it’s little disappointing. I have been working with Netgear tech support, they keep giving me things to try (VERY SLOWLY I MIGHT ADD ) and they keep not working. No root cause analysis or explanation of multiple solution scenarios of course. They might be right to say most people just wouldn’t care but I want to know if this is a fundamental problem with the device and if I should fire the dam thing and just suck it up and get something new.

 Anyway, I since the Netgear solutions are not getting my pictures back I was at least able to go back to the compactflash card that I used for thanks giving and run a regular disk recovery program against it to get some, if not all, of the pictures back. I have to clean things up a bit and then they really will be up in a day or so.

Hole thing has been a total drag, it’s my own fault I should have backed out when I understood what the box really was. I am just simple not a fan of SAN technology at work either. I tend to think of net apps and other NAS type devices as just being so much easier to deal with in case exactly this type of problem.