Those of us who have used RJ45 cables for Ethernet have a tendency to want to use something similar when we’re considering an upgrade to 10GigE. It turns out using a “10GBaseT” card and the standard RJ45 connector based twisted pair patch cable might be the wrong choice. Although 10GBaseT with RJ45 connectors are fairly…
The BNAS series of products as well as certain DAS products use an AMT board (Automatic mirroring technology). The associated software is the JMicron HW RAID Manager. This software and the product functionality can be tricky. Here are a summary of the tips, with more detail and screen shots below: Don’t run multiple copies of…
High-Rely’s DeltaSync is a feature designed as an alternative to RAID1 mirroring for very large hard drives. It should not be confused with the Microsoft protocol of the same name.
Scheduled Mirroring can protect against ransomware.
The question about how to do a bare metal restore is more of a software issue than a Netswap hardware issue but essentially it’s just a matter of attaching to the Netswap NAS via UNC path during the restore. Here are more details: First, it is important to note that “bare metal restore” from a…