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Have old unit - want to purchase new one
Hi. I purchased a 4-bay ReadyNas NV many years ago and still use it as our primary home network NAS. I've had the usual issues over the years, failed disks, problems restoring after drive replacements, but I've always had a USB backup and was able to restore and maintain all our data. It's always had slow IO performance even with the suggested speed tweaks. So now I'm ready to upgrade to a newer 4-bay model Readynas and have a few pre-sales questions.
1. Looking on Amazon.ca, it looks like my options for a diskless 4-port model are the RN104 aned RN314 (at twice the cost). Is the 314 newer and faster? I don't see the 104 listed on Readynas.com. Is there a comparison?
2. Can I simply transfer my 4 drives from old to new Readynas or will it require a backup/restore process?
3. I've read that Readynas provides onboard cloud backup but it's a bit more expensive that popular services like Crashplan, Zoolz, etc. What cloud backup is natively supported?
4. I tried the Readynas USB backup on my NV but it's not a true continuous backup service that manages files by timeline (such as Genie Timeline or Apple Time Machine). Restoring files from USB backup always gives you all the files you deleted years ago regardless of how recent the backup was last run. Is onboard USB backup improved on the newer models?
Thanks for any help.
-Al
1. Looking on Amazon.ca, it looks like my options for a diskless 4-port model are the RN104 aned RN314 (at twice the cost). Is the 314 newer and faster? I don't see the 104 listed on Readynas.com. Is there a comparison?
2. Can I simply transfer my 4 drives from old to new Readynas or will it require a backup/restore process?
3. I've read that Readynas provides onboard cloud backup but it's a bit more expensive that popular services like Crashplan, Zoolz, etc. What cloud backup is natively supported?
4. I tried the Readynas USB backup on my NV but it's not a true continuous backup service that manages files by timeline (such as Genie Timeline or Apple Time Machine). Restoring files from USB backup always gives you all the files you deleted years ago regardless of how recent the backup was last run. Is onboard USB backup improved on the newer models?
Thanks for any help.
-Al
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The RN104 is considered a home model, you will find it on netgear.com. Both were launched about the same time. The RN104 is an ARM platform, the RN314 is intel (and faster). Both are a lot faster then the NV you have now. RN104 performance can be seen here: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas- ... ed?start=1 The RN314 data can be found here: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas- ... ed?start=1victorypoint wrote: 1. Looking on Amazon.ca, it looks like my options for a diskless 4-port model are the RN104 and RN314 (at twice the cost). Is the 314 newer and faster? I don't see the 104 listed on Readynas.com. Is there a comparison? - 1. The 314 would be my preferred choice. A greater variety of add-ons will run on the 314. Also the RN314 has 2GB RAM vs the 512MB in the RN104.
2. It will require a backup/restore process.
3. Some users have installed things such as Crashplan but this is not supported. See e.g. http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=71675.
4. If you backup using Rsync you can choose to delete files on the backup that were deleted on the source. You can do this too on the NV. - Thanks guys! Mdgm, where would I find info to do backups via Rsync?
-Al - For the NV, follow these instructions: http://www.rnasguide.com/2010/09/23/rsync-backup-to-usb-disk/
Should be similar on newer models. - I think the 314 can be extended via additional bay via E-SATA too, the RN104 can't.
The 314 has HDMI I think, which could prove useful (since you have a full linux underneath, it can help for troubleshooting at least, and I'm not sure if you can use it as a standard computer if you know your linux).
If you have the money I would go for the 314 too. The RN104 has not the horsepower to run the antivirus or the encryption for example, it's simple core ARM, whereas the 314 is dual core atom with an higher clock per processor, no need to be good at math to figure out which one is faster ;)
I also think (but not sure at all) that the 314 has extendable memory whereas the RN104 memory is soldered on it.
I don't have time to check the tech sheet of the 314 right now, so check this out by yourself.
Netgear has ReadyNAS vault option (the expensive one). There is also a limited support for dropbox too (one way and no real config options). I think those two are supported options. You can also go full readyNAS way and have 2 NAS synced with readynas replicate (which is free on OS6).
I think I've seen a community add-on for owncloud and another for memeo C1 available in the interface too. But I don't think Netgear supports those even if they publish them.
If you want crashplan, RN104 is not compatible as the minimum memory requirement exceeds the RN104 memory (check this too). You might also want to consider the 200 series, i.e. RN204. Basically these sit right between the 104 and 314 on price, and in fact I read a benchmark and the performance is near similar to the 314. The 204 is the latest model in the [home] series.
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