In the past I had used an iOmega and a Seagate Black Armor NAS, both run Linux, both ran perfectly fine until they eventually died. I next switched to an Apple TimeCapsule for both network storage and as a router/wap. The TC turned out not to be the best idea as the hdd in them is narcoleptic, that is to say, the drive goes to sleep very quickly and it is annoying to wait 10 seconds for the drive to spin up if you let it idle for only a very few minutes. However, as you'll soon read, I jumped from the fat to the fire...
So, I had a Dell T3400 running full-time anyway, I bought two WD Red NAS 2TB HDDs and installed them and set them up in Windows RAID1. Almost right away I noticed this weird issue, and that is, after the initial connection to the Dell, if the client was allowed to idle for very long, several minutes, and especially if it's a laptop and it goes to sleep, reconnecting to the Dell can take many minutes. So, I started over and used Intel Hardware RAID1 - same result.
So, in summary, initial connections to my Dell T3400 happen almost instantly... reconnecting, or maybe more precisely, just accessing the T3400, after an extended period on inactivity can result in many minutes of delay. It matters not whether it's a wired or wireless connection, it matters not whether it is a laptop or desktop, this happens whether the client is my MacBook Pro, my Asus desktop running W7 Home Premium, my hp dv6500 running Fedora, my wife's Dell running W8.1, my really old Inspiron 6000 running XP. The ONLY difference that I see is that occasionally the T3400 will absolutely refuse to allow the Inspiron to reconnect until I reboot the T3400; aside from that, the problem manifests exactly the same despite the platform hardware/OS.
I've been researching this off and on for weeks but cannot find anything on it that is exactly like my situation. I'd sure like to solve this... I've used a similar setup in the past with a RAID card in an old hp running Fedora7 and had no trouble. If I cannot fix this, I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and by a NAS enclosure and install the WD HDDs in it and see if it runs ok.
So, I had a Dell T3400 running full-time anyway, I bought two WD Red NAS 2TB HDDs and installed them and set them up in Windows RAID1. Almost right away I noticed this weird issue, and that is, after the initial connection to the Dell, if the client was allowed to idle for very long, several minutes, and especially if it's a laptop and it goes to sleep, reconnecting to the Dell can take many minutes. So, I started over and used Intel Hardware RAID1 - same result.
So, in summary, initial connections to my Dell T3400 happen almost instantly... reconnecting, or maybe more precisely, just accessing the T3400, after an extended period on inactivity can result in many minutes of delay. It matters not whether it's a wired or wireless connection, it matters not whether it is a laptop or desktop, this happens whether the client is my MacBook Pro, my Asus desktop running W7 Home Premium, my hp dv6500 running Fedora, my wife's Dell running W8.1, my really old Inspiron 6000 running XP. The ONLY difference that I see is that occasionally the T3400 will absolutely refuse to allow the Inspiron to reconnect until I reboot the T3400; aside from that, the problem manifests exactly the same despite the platform hardware/OS.
I've been researching this off and on for weeks but cannot find anything on it that is exactly like my situation. I'd sure like to solve this... I've used a similar setup in the past with a RAID card in an old hp running Fedora7 and had no trouble. If I cannot fix this, I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and by a NAS enclosure and install the WD HDDs in it and see if it runs ok.
