Disk/Volume Encryption

immy wrote:
3TB disks don't even have a release date and this is more important?

WD has just released a 3TB Green disk. Admittedly whilst this isn't something you'd want to use in a business NAS e.g. rackmount, testing it will help. Once enterprise 3TB disks are released if NetGear's got things working with the consumer 3TB disks on the consumer models, it'll hopefully be able to be quicker with qualifying enterprise 3TB disks for the rackmount solutions. People purchase ReadyNASes to have loads of storage. The use of 3TB disks is important to far more ReadyNAS users than those will use encryption.

immy wrote:
IPv6 is a long way from being enforced and which ISP in the UK provides IPv6 services as standard?

There are many request for IPv6 support. Things are moving towards the use of IPv6. IPv4 addresses are running out. It's an important feature to be added.

immy wrote:
You need to get priorities right, more and more customers will demand encryption. It should be at the top of your list....

Encryption is a nice feature, but it's not the most important. NetGear can't bring everything they want to in at once and they have to prioritise.

immy wrote:
Some of the threads I've seen asking for 'encryption' are dated back over two years so how is it not being ignored?

A few years ago, the ReadyNAS Pro was the only x86 ReadyNAS product. Sparc ReadyNAS are too slow to make it worth bothering to use encryption.

A range of features that take advantage of the Intel CPUs performance have been added over time e.g. iSCSI, Rsync over SSH to name a few.

Priority has to be placed on the core feature set such as supporting higher capacity hard drives and essential networking features over adding complex new features.

For now, there are ways you can work around there being no encryption feature on the ReadyNAS e.g. by mounting an iSCSI target using an initiator on a Windows Server, encrypting the data there and sharing it from there