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AntiVirus No Longer Updating
Since 30th September, I have been getting an email from my RN214 advising me that the "Antivirus scanner definition file update failed due to download failure. Check your Internet connection." I ...
Your point is valid and accepted. Changing ecosystems is never fast or easy.
My point was that when they wanted to get out of the NAS market they could/should have open-sourced the firmware so that we could continue to maintain it ourselves. It was not as if they were going to hurt future upgrades/sales of new NAS devices!
The hardware was, and still is, too good to simply be thrown away because the antivirus tool is too old or that Samba etc have been updated. With access to the source code the user base could have provided ongoing patches and updates to allow users to hold onto their investments with security and reliability until the hardware dies a natural death.
My point was that when they wanted to get out of the NAS market they could/should have open-sourced the firmware so that we could continue to maintain it ourselves.
Maybe. Success there would require a good technical team, with someone willing/able to manage the workflow. AFAICT there aren't enough ReadyNAS users with both the skills and the interest.
While the hardware is rock-solid, the lack of NVME support and graphics acceleration are both significant limitations.
For those users who wanted more comprehensive hardware support would probably not have selected a ReadyNAS in the first place.
For those of us who wanted a NAS to just be a NAS then the ReadyNAS was a fair choice. I actually started with the original Infrant hardware when there were not than many NAS alternatives.
All that said, with access to the custom kernel interface source code etc it might not be an onerous task to update the few modules that need to be updated. Arguably, the code cutters may not even be ReadyNAS users but rather Linux experts who would like to help us.
All that said, with access to the custom kernel interface source code etc it might not be an onerous task to update the few modules that need to be updated.
I think it's a much bigger job than you are thinking. If migrating OS-6 to current Debian was easy, Netgear wouldn't have stopped with Jessie - they would have migrated to Stretch back in 2017. It would much harder to get it running on Trixie.
But it doesn't matter what we think, as Netgear isn't going to open-source anyway.
For those of us who wanted a NAS to just be a NAS then the ReadyNAS was a fair choice.
Sure. I started with the NV+ v1, and don't regret my puchases. None of my various ReadyNAS have failed over the past ~15 years.
I only use mine for storage, and plan to continue using them for the foreseeable future. But I think most home NAS users today are wanting to run apps. Netgear never succeeded in getting many apps into OS-6, and I think they lost a lot of market share as a result.
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