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Well; since we are talking about old posts . . .

@591dave

I stayed with OS3 during 2021 because I was scared off OS5 by multiple warnings in this forum. I was afraid it would lack functionality based on the various comparison pages out there. But it turns out that my experience with it this week has been way better than what I had with OS3…especially after OS3 became unavailable via networking.

It was WD Web services that became unavailable.
O/S 3 is still 100% functional via in-home networking to PCs

Caveat: OS3 is obsolete from a security standpoint. OS/3 devices should not be exposed to the internet. at a minimum internet access to the device needs to be blocked at the router level

@591dave

I wasn’t noticing any development on OS5 and thought that it would be a lost cause. But I was mistaken; there has been development on this OS and new releases about every month.

What development?
We saw security updates and bug fixes.
Absolutely no feature or capability development. Even for glaring functionality flaws.

@591dave

Anyway, I’ve had plenty of reasons to be disappointed with my drive in the past, but I’m hoping that within a few weeks it will start to be able to do the things it was advertised for.

My big winners in OS/5:

• FIle explorer finds the NAS units reliably. (OS/3 was very unreliable in “appearing” as network devices. It just didn’t play well with WIndows Master Browser stuff)

• USB drives were not automatically indexed upon insertion.

These are minor things; but I really appreciated them.