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AMA - Ask Us Anything About ReadyNAS and You Could Win a ReadyNAS 214!
We are hosting an extended 4 week Ask Me Anything AMA for the NETGEAR ReadyNAS line of products and we would love to answer your ReadyNAS questions. Best of all, posting your question below enter...
I'm in the market for a new NAS. I currently have an old RND2000 (Duo V1) and a RN102
Funnily enough, I'm considering the RN214, which is the subject of this sweepstake. I have a separate Intel NUC box which currently handles my CCTV needs via a Windows based Software platform, which is not the most ideal. I would have liked to migrate this to my new NAS, but the disproportionate costs of the licensing are putting me off the RN214. However, another piece of this is whether Dual NIC would enable me to utilise the RN214 on a separate network if there is no Gateway/Router. That is to say, that the 2nd NIC would be connected to an unmanaged switch which is also connected to the IP Cameras in use, all using a separate Network Subnet. Would the RN214 be able to 'route' to the separate Subnet from the main subnet?
Hi Charlesb224
What licensing costs of the 214 are you mentioning? I was not sure from your post.
To answer your question regarding the Dual NIC... The ReadyNAS itself can be on two networks at once, one network that you have an umannaged switch and cameras with static IP, and the other network is your main network. Software like Milestone Arcus on ReadyNAS (MAoR) can find cameras on your unmanaged switch network, and you can access Milestone from your main network to view your cameras. You, on a computer on your main network, cannot route from your main network to your unmanaged network through the RN214, though.
MAoR is not supported on RN214; it is minimally supported on RN31x or RN42x.
Hope this helps :)
The licensing costs for the 214 are for the ReadyNAS Surveillance Camera Licenses @ £180 for 4 roughly. I used to have a dedicated NVR for my cameras, which died earlier this year, I replaced it with a Intel NUC using a quad core 1.5Ghz processor and 2GB RAM. The issue I have is mainly disk related. I did try an use the Surveillance software on my RN102 with the single license as a trial, but frankly it wouldn't work with my IP Cameras.
I looked at Milestone Arcus (Windows) version. Currently I'm using Dahua SmartPSS PC-NVR software (FREE!) for my 4 IP Cameras, and I determined that Arcus was no better.
What I'm looking to do is setup the NAS (With dual NIC's) with an iSCSI volume and have the Intel NUC Read/Write to that iSCSI share rather than to it's internal 2.5" disk. Sounds like it's possible with a separate network