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BretD
Jul 19, 2017Administrator
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...
kohdee
Aug 18, 2017NETGEAR Expert
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 :)
Charlesb224
Aug 18, 2017Tutor
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