I just saw the announcment for the 526!! Looks freaking sweet. Thank goodness christmas is around the corner. I think Santa will be giving me a nice little treat this year. :) Then, I just need to upgrade my home network to 10G and i'll be set!!

I like the industrial design of the new desktop units, and the processor uplifts. 10gb network makes sense, since the 500 series is almost always network limited. If only there were inexpensive 10gb switches out there.

If you are interested in reading an initial review of the new RN526X, you can check it out at http://appletechtalk.com.

Yes, it's a great new product. The 10Gbit ports are backwards compatible with 1Gbit ports so if you need to do the NAS first then a 10Gbit network later you can.

dschwartzer wrote: If you are interested in reading an initial review of the new RN526X, you can check it out at http://appletechtalk.com. Thx. I missed the bluetooth dongle (apparently there's an app that can manage the NAS via bluetooth as a backup to accessing the web ui over ethernet). Nice idea.

Looks like another great NAS. I just got my ReadyNAS 516 about 4 months ago, USED so I got it about half price then what Amazon is currantly charging for a new one. It's been working great for a Plex server and handling transcoding, though I did try a 4K video to 1080P and it choked on it. It's also running PlexPL and some other software and it's been great. I have 5 3TB drives in in. It uses the same ECC memory as this new 526, though it's expandable on this new one. Though you can also expand on the 516 if you wanted, just not supported. Getting all that software off my power hungrey PC is nice. I can use it for gaming and whatnot and not have it tied up. The Bluetooth dongle sounds interesting. I wonder if older NAS units could support that feature? Plug in the dongle and use the software that isn't out yet?

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sep 02, 2016
Yes, it's a great new product. The 10Gbit ports are backwards compatible with 1Gbit ports so if you need to do the NAS first then a 10Gbit network later you can.
- StephenB
  Guru
  Sep 02, 2016
  I like the industrial design of the new desktop units, and the processor uplifts. 10gb network makes sense, since the 500 series is almost always network limited.
  
  If only there were inexpensive 10gb switches out there.
dschwartzer
Luminary
Sep 02, 2016
If you are interested in reading an initial review of the new RN526X, you can check it out at http://appletechtalk.com.
- StephenB
  Guru
  Sep 02, 2016
  dschwartzer wrote:
  
  If you are interested in reading an initial review of the new RN526X, you can check it out at http://appletechtalk.com.
  
  Thx. I missed the bluetooth dongle (apparently there's an app that can manage the NAS via bluetooth as a backup to accessing the web ui over ethernet).
  
  Nice idea.
  - JBDragon1
    Virtuoso
    Sep 03, 2016
    Looks like another great NAS. I just got my ReadyNAS 516 about 4 months ago, USED so I got it about half price then what Amazon is currantly charging for a new one. It's been working great for a Plex server and handling transcoding, though I did try a 4K video to 1080P and it choked on it. It's also running PlexPL and some other software and it's been great. I have 5 3TB drives in in. It uses the same ECC memory as this new 526, though it's expandable on this new one. Though you can also expand on the 516 if you wanted, just not supported.
    
    Getting all that software off my power hungrey PC is nice. I can use it for gaming and whatnot and not have it tied up. The Bluetooth dongle sounds interesting. I wonder if older NAS units could support that feature? Plug in the dongle and use the software that isn't out yet?

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