I've got a Unitrends 823 that is currently causing me ulcers, and lost backups. By lost I mean that they aren't happening. I had a drive fail in April that was replaced. Since then, performance has been getting worse and worse. I can't get an archive to complete in 1 week, full backups take 3-4 days or longer, and incrementals often don't get taken because they run into each other. The RAID card just shows that it does a verify, then starts over without completing. I still get a few errors occasionally on the drive that replaced the failed one (it was a refurbished drive with about 450 days of runtime on it according to SMART). I have a support case in, but so far it's been a waste of my time. They don't respond timely and have so far refused to replace the drive and/or RAID card. I suspect that they are both junked. I have had good...
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