Seagate forums? So bad they shut them down?

[scottfree1_01]

Or I'm an idiot and just can't find them?

google shows
Seagate Community Forums
forums.seagate.com/

but the link redirects here
http://www.seagate.com/support-home/

And I don't seagate no stinkin forums, is it just me??

 

[thor220]

Yeah wow, looks like they did shut them down. It was probably filled with failed drive and poor replacement incidents anyways.

 

[scottfree1_01]

That's what it looks like, I had posted in the past

"It was probably filled with failed drive and poor replacement incidents anyways."

Yup that about covers my posts, but shutting them down, that's about as big a meow, meow move as I've ever seen from a major tech company..

 

[jsmithepa]

For a tech company, HD has got to be most boring component. What's there to know about a HD? Why do we need to listen to the "company's line" at companys' sponsored forums? Plenty of forums around with real people, real experiences.

 

[scottfree1_01]

Well, then you got this? No one else here seems to, and not sure where to find more seagate specific know how.. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2862377/seagate-central-twonky-wonky.html

 

[thor220]

Well, then you got this? No one else here seems to, and not sure where to find more seagate specific know how.. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2862377/seagate-central-twonky-wonky.html

I'm not familiar with that particular drive myself. What I can say is that many other people seem to have similar issues as you. Seagate has never been big into NAS and as you'd expect, their entry is only sub-par.

There's a very good chance that getting a standalone NAS would fix your issues.

 

[scottfree1_01]

My synology nas just died, and I picked up the seagate central for $65 which was the lowest price for ANY 3tb drive I could find, so the nas part was basically free. I supposedly have qnap 119+ on the way, but I'll believe that when I see it, I'm pretty skeptical, but it's amazon so I feel pretty confident that my $26 bucks are safe...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BDAHNC?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

 

[thor220]

The standalone NAS really are the best (like the qnap one you purchased). They are really good on the 4 or more drive units as they come with more powerful hardware and features. Things like raid and direct access are nice to have and full fledged NAS Linux Distros.

 

[scottfree1_01]

This is just used as media storage, no need for some $500 quad drive raidzilla setup for that. I had hacked in twonky 8.2 on my synology nas which is a pretty decent dlna server, the main reason it had a seat at the table is the ability to go to the web interface and "cast" a movie from there to any of my dnla enable devices, a feature that does not work with the seagate, not sure if is even supposed to work with the v7.x of twonky included, and my efforts to get v8.2 running have gotten nowhere mainly due to the funky Cavium Econa CNS3420 arm9 cpu which leaves me scratching my head as to which if any of these might be an upgrade option. http://www.twonkyforum.com/downloads/8.2/