NAS Dropping connection

[OCD-OC]

Had a Western Digital MyBook Wrold for a while now

Windows 7 at startup keeps coming up with the error bubble to say that
it "could not connect to all network drives" (I only have the one)

and in My Computer the mapped drive icon has a red X thru it..

double clicking re-activates and it works perfectly fine.

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I'm thinking of buying a Buffalo or Iomega NAS RAID drive for my backups

but before I do .. is this a problem with this WD drive
or with win 7 (it's installed on an SSD, I wondered if it was loading too fast to allow the NAS to come out of standby)
or with NAS in general


any help or recommendations ?

ta
OCD

 

[StevieP]

Exactly the same happens on my Buffalo NAS - I get the message saying it cant connect but it works fine when I double click on it!

I just assumed it was the LAN port sorting itself out during the Windows boot up!

 

[Flying Gribble]

I've had enough of my WD Book World and have cannibalised the drive for a new Synology NAS that arrived yesterday. The WD kept dropping connections and after a while appeared to lock up completely. It would respond to 'ping', but no file access and no ssh access either. It never stayed up for more than a few days without lockup which is pretty useless for a NAS.

After a bit of research I found that I was far from the only one having this problem - See here for example. Moral - Never buy something like this on the spur of the moment again!