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Convince me to stay with ReadyNAS
NetGear seem to be neglecting the ReadyNAS product line. Apparently even the top most models the 3220 and 4220 are only SATA II based whereas everyone else making computers or servers or NAS boxes has...
Thanks for everyones replies so far. I hear the comments about the need for SATA III for spinning metal hard disks and yet all such hard disks since about 2TB have been SATA III as standard.
The community app for LDAP for OS 6 is an LDAP server, as far as I can see it will not enable a ReadyNAS to authenticate clients against an existing LDAP server e.g. a Linux box running OpenLDAP or a Mac box running Open Directory. There have been many previous requests posted in these forums over many years (including my own) for the ReadyNAS to be able to authenticate to existing LDAP servers.
The QNAP can be upgraded to 32GB of RAM and has a quad-core Intel Xeon processor. With the fact that the similar ReadyNAS 4220 supports network expansion cards and has a decent processor it would have seemed suited to running multiple VMs with independent NICs except for the lack of RAM and lack of standard software support. See http://www.qnap.com/i/station/en/virtualization.php
Thanks for the news about 4.2.27 and its newer SAMBA. While it is of the right version it is not clear if SMB2 is enabled in it. Has anyone tested this? A Mac client running Mavericks can show you what version of SMB it is connected via by using the "smbutil statshares -a" command. Mavericks supports up to SMB 2.1 and Yosemite will also support SMB 3.0 I have used this command previously to confirm 4.2.26 is SMB1 only. :(
I know NetGear have had a good history in keeping up with NetAtalk updates so the news about 3.1 sounds promising. This along with being able to authenticate via LDAP and the existing Time Machine support would make it very attractive to Mac using sites - of which there are now many. Except :x :x NetGear still don't support connecting to LDAP servers and hence it cannot connect to Open Directory.
The community app for LDAP for OS 6 is an LDAP server, as far as I can see it will not enable a ReadyNAS to authenticate clients against an existing LDAP server e.g. a Linux box running OpenLDAP or a Mac box running Open Directory. There have been many previous requests posted in these forums over many years (including my own) for the ReadyNAS to be able to authenticate to existing LDAP servers.
The QNAP can be upgraded to 32GB of RAM and has a quad-core Intel Xeon processor. With the fact that the similar ReadyNAS 4220 supports network expansion cards and has a decent processor it would have seemed suited to running multiple VMs with independent NICs except for the lack of RAM and lack of standard software support. See http://www.qnap.com/i/station/en/virtualization.php
Thanks for the news about 4.2.27 and its newer SAMBA. While it is of the right version it is not clear if SMB2 is enabled in it. Has anyone tested this? A Mac client running Mavericks can show you what version of SMB it is connected via by using the "smbutil statshares -a" command. Mavericks supports up to SMB 2.1 and Yosemite will also support SMB 3.0 I have used this command previously to confirm 4.2.26 is SMB1 only. :(
I know NetGear have had a good history in keeping up with NetAtalk updates so the news about 3.1 sounds promising. This along with being able to authenticate via LDAP and the existing Time Machine support would make it very attractive to Mac using sites - of which there are now many. Except :x :x NetGear still don't support connecting to LDAP servers and hence it cannot connect to Open Directory.
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