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Another ReadyNAS or something else?
I'm researching options for adding another NAS to our network. Because there is a 4-year-old ReadyNAS (Pro Business with 5 3TB drives) on the network, I had initially thought of simply going with anot...
I'm actually looking at the same decision. My Ultra4s are full and I have at least 3x2TB drive lying around unused.
I was considering 316/516 but the drastic changes to OS6 seem to be a rocky road, and I'm not sure of the benefit to me for this product line.
It is a good thing to start new, fresh untethered to old technology. But that means you bring no good will and a small subset of you client base to the new party. Your new product gets judged against all the other players on a new field. What will follow is the community of support and products you've built. And that has been weak. Weak apps, weak support for the evolution of even your own apps. That doesn't look good for the future of a whole new environment.
The add-ons for the Ultra were attractive, but 3 years later they have NO REAL VALUE to me. The ReadyNAS VPN client performed poorly and was barely supported. The tuntap secret of fixing it on the Mac was buried in a 4?5 year old post by a user. I replaced it with the FTP server--which has limited performance, but works reliably for us. The Plex client requires more CPU than it has to transcode--so that got moved to 3 year old Dell Insprion 410 (ZinoHD, $600 mini PC)--which handles everything we demand from the Plex server. The itunes/firefly server barely works, and I believe the original development team killed firefly in ?2009? So no hope of it ever working right. I have dropbox on there, but the service dies out and I've no clue that files aren't updating.
The new cloud shares might eliminate the FTP, but only if it handles large, resumable downloads. The ReadyRemote became useless because an SMB transfer of a 600Mb software image would get interrupted and you'd have to start all over again.
I have yet to see anything to guarantee me that the 516 would handle multiple PLEX transcodes. At least then, I could move the server off the Windows 7 Zino. The $500 difference between 316 & 516 is all CPU and memory. If I don't have KILLER APPS to run, nothing justifies a $500 upgrade to the CPU/Memory.
Synology looks like they might be more polished on the apps side, but I have to see if that is true. Netgear looked better than they were, too.
With Synology I could do a 8-bay for less than the 516, which would be quite nice.
I was considering 316/516 but the drastic changes to OS6 seem to be a rocky road, and I'm not sure of the benefit to me for this product line.
It is a good thing to start new, fresh untethered to old technology. But that means you bring no good will and a small subset of you client base to the new party. Your new product gets judged against all the other players on a new field. What will follow is the community of support and products you've built. And that has been weak. Weak apps, weak support for the evolution of even your own apps. That doesn't look good for the future of a whole new environment.
The add-ons for the Ultra were attractive, but 3 years later they have NO REAL VALUE to me. The ReadyNAS VPN client performed poorly and was barely supported. The tuntap secret of fixing it on the Mac was buried in a 4?5 year old post by a user. I replaced it with the FTP server--which has limited performance, but works reliably for us. The Plex client requires more CPU than it has to transcode--so that got moved to 3 year old Dell Insprion 410 (ZinoHD, $600 mini PC)--which handles everything we demand from the Plex server. The itunes/firefly server barely works, and I believe the original development team killed firefly in ?2009? So no hope of it ever working right. I have dropbox on there, but the service dies out and I've no clue that files aren't updating.
The new cloud shares might eliminate the FTP, but only if it handles large, resumable downloads. The ReadyRemote became useless because an SMB transfer of a 600Mb software image would get interrupted and you'd have to start all over again.
I have yet to see anything to guarantee me that the 516 would handle multiple PLEX transcodes. At least then, I could move the server off the Windows 7 Zino. The $500 difference between 316 & 516 is all CPU and memory. If I don't have KILLER APPS to run, nothing justifies a $500 upgrade to the CPU/Memory.
Synology looks like they might be more polished on the apps side, but I have to see if that is true. Netgear looked better than they were, too.
With Synology I could do a 8-bay for less than the 516, which would be quite nice.
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