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Feedback on ReadyNAS Duo v2
Hi, recently i bought Netgear ReadyNAS Duo V2 device, so i thought i will share my experiences so far. I'll be as short as possible.
The good.
- Excellent performance! I get 41-50 MB/s write and 74-80 MB/s read speed (on large media files). Smaller files (photos) were written at 32-39 MB/s!
- Built quality.
- It's so quite that i could sleep next to it. Really.
- Easy hard drive installation.
- Easy to use and lovely web interface (especially since installing lastest beta FW)
- Price (got it on promotion for 139 euro).
- Latest beta firmware [5.3.5-T33] looks very promising, adds useful features as FTP.
- I don't think i ever mentioned great performance :D
The bad.
- Printed documentation/user manual could be included.
- A bit complicated to set-up:
a) After i powered up device for the first time RAIDar said "STFU" and threw me "Corrupted Root" error message. This forced me to go trough all FAQ section. After re-installing firmware device booted up and...
b) Another complaint from RAIDar: "Bad drives". It took me some time until i decided to delete current EXT3 partitions (previously i had 1 EXT3 partition per drive).
c) When device was finally ready, i couldn't create any shares. In logs i found messages complaining about some not found/inaccessible shares. "Factory Reset" and setting up drives in Raid 1 mode did the trick.
- No EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 support. I hope there was a good reason (performance?) to use some proprietary file system on these devices.
- Only very few add-ons are available at the moment.
Could be better.
- Currently you can set permissions on "main shares" only. I'd definitely like to be able to set permissions for sub-directories is well. Only because of that now i'm forced to map over 10 shares on each PC.
- Currently available UPnP-AV/ReadyDLNA solutions are quite disappointing.
Conclusion.
Despite few troubles i faced during initial setup i really love this device so far and it performs really well and i'll give it 8 out of 10. Really good job Netgear, thank you :worship:
The good.
- Excellent performance! I get 41-50 MB/s write and 74-80 MB/s read speed (on large media files). Smaller files (photos) were written at 32-39 MB/s!
- Built quality.
- It's so quite that i could sleep next to it. Really.
- Easy hard drive installation.
- Easy to use and lovely web interface (especially since installing lastest beta FW)
- Price (got it on promotion for 139 euro).
- Latest beta firmware [5.3.5-T33] looks very promising, adds useful features as FTP.
- I don't think i ever mentioned great performance :D
The bad.
- Printed documentation/user manual could be included.
- A bit complicated to set-up:
a) After i powered up device for the first time RAIDar said "STFU" and threw me "Corrupted Root" error message. This forced me to go trough all FAQ section. After re-installing firmware device booted up and...
b) Another complaint from RAIDar: "Bad drives". It took me some time until i decided to delete current EXT3 partitions (previously i had 1 EXT3 partition per drive).
c) When device was finally ready, i couldn't create any shares. In logs i found messages complaining about some not found/inaccessible shares. "Factory Reset" and setting up drives in Raid 1 mode did the trick.
- No EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 support. I hope there was a good reason (performance?) to use some proprietary file system on these devices.
- Only very few add-ons are available at the moment.
Could be better.
- Currently you can set permissions on "main shares" only. I'd definitely like to be able to set permissions for sub-directories is well. Only because of that now i'm forced to map over 10 shares on each PC.
- Currently available UPnP-AV/ReadyDLNA solutions are quite disappointing.
Conclusion.
Despite few troubles i faced during initial setup i really love this device so far and it performs really well and i'll give it 8 out of 10. Really good job Netgear, thank you :worship:
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- Most home users will store their photos and financial information of their unit. That is what we mean my critical/important information. If it only has music or videos pulled from CDs and DVDs that you still have, then it would be an inconvenience if you lost it all and had to re-rip it, but if it the baby photos of your now 10 year old, that's a different matter.
- Obviously backing up the data that is impossible to replace (photos, personal docs) should be the top priority.
Though re-building my media library is a big enough job that I back that up also. Backing up everything keeps things simplest. - Only very few add-ons are available at the moment.
I'm still hoping the ones that are available will be added to the addons page on readynas.com
I'd also wonder with the rsync comment that wouldn't deleting from the main device delete from the secondary backup device :shock: ? If something non data oops happens this would work but normal deletion I'd think no.
I don't have a v2 (neither does PapaBear). With the v1 and X86 platforms, there is a check-off box in FrontView backup that optionally deletes backup files that are no longer on the source.techman05 wrote: I'd also wonder with the rsync comment that wouldn't deleting from the main device delete from the secondary backup device :shock: ? If something non data oops happens this would work but normal deletion I'd think no.
My daily backup jobs don't have this option selected (also Frontview does not delete these files by default).
Every now and then I check it, and run a backup manually to delete old files.- StephenB - that's a great idea.
Thu Jun 1 23:22:20 WEST 2012 - System is up.
So, it's been two months since last system reboot and it's still performs as on day one! Really nice job Netgear :thumbsup:
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