AMA - Ask Us Anything About ReadyNAS and You Could Win a ReadyNAS 214!

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slompochomp wrote:

Currently I am using a SSD drive connected to my routers USB 3.0 port with a USB 3.0 to SATA cable and just using the ReadyShare on the router. How well does ReadyNAS 214 proforme compaired to what I have currently setup and what other benifits would I expect to see with the ReadyNAS 214?

 

Thanks in advanced!

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Using ReadyShare is a great start.  Once you are comfortable with that technology, but hunger for more, you should look at RN214.

1. The performance of data access is limited by the router.  RN214 is a dedicated device just for data storage, access and sharing.  

2. RN214 has four drives.  Obviously, larger capacity.  For sure, especially that your current USB is a SSD based storage.  Also, this is very important, a four drive system, when you configure it as RAID5 (default), you will have protection.  RN214 comes with 5 levels of data protection against mechanical, physical, human, system level errors, and virus attacks.  

3. There are more sharing, streaming, oh, yes, Plex, that is not avaible in the router.  (Plex is available to the very high end models of NETGEAR Nighthawk.  But, obviously, the performance is, again, limited by the Router.)