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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...
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).
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).
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