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Looking for a NAS box for Mom
Hey all, Mom has a desktop and a laptop I'm looking for a box that might both her and my life easier! Easier for me cuz right now, i'm battling a nasty virus on her laptop and it sure would be e...
StephenB - I disagree slightly about the performance gain of the Ultra over the Duo, it is not just very noticeable it is night and day!
At least the performance difference between my original NV+ (approx 22MB/s file transfer speed) and my 32 bit NVX (50-60 MB/s file transfer speed) is. The Ultra would be even faster than my NVX since it has a more robust CPU and 64bit system vs the 32 bit system on the NVX.
The only gain you would get going from an Ultra 4 Plus to a Pro 4 would be the business features (if you need them) and the additional 2 years of warranty (5 years vs 3 years). However, currently the posted price of the Pro 4 is $10 more than the Ultra 4 Plus ($620 w/free shipping vs $600 w/$10 shipping). Sounds good to me.
The advantage of the 4 bay over the 2 bay is not only triple the volume size (in both 2 bay and 4 bay the redundancy is one disk) but the LED display on the front vs. decoding the light pattern. (The 4 bay and 6 bay still have the light pattern as well as the display panel.) The difference in X-Raid and X-Raid2 is the fact that the x-86 units support drives larger than 2TB and in the 4 and 6 bay will fully utilize the available space in mixed drives as long as there is redundancy. I have 2x3TB and 2x1TB drives in both my NVX units and they have a volume of 4.6TB. In the sparc based 4 bay (NV+) with X-Raid all the drives must be the larger capacity before it will expand.
At least the performance difference between my original NV+ (approx 22MB/s file transfer speed) and my 32 bit NVX (50-60 MB/s file transfer speed) is. The Ultra would be even faster than my NVX since it has a more robust CPU and 64bit system vs the 32 bit system on the NVX.
The only gain you would get going from an Ultra 4 Plus to a Pro 4 would be the business features (if you need them) and the additional 2 years of warranty (5 years vs 3 years). However, currently the posted price of the Pro 4 is $10 more than the Ultra 4 Plus ($620 w/free shipping vs $600 w/$10 shipping). Sounds good to me.
The advantage of the 4 bay over the 2 bay is not only triple the volume size (in both 2 bay and 4 bay the redundancy is one disk) but the LED display on the front vs. decoding the light pattern. (The 4 bay and 6 bay still have the light pattern as well as the display panel.) The difference in X-Raid and X-Raid2 is the fact that the x-86 units support drives larger than 2TB and in the 4 and 6 bay will fully utilize the available space in mixed drives as long as there is redundancy. I have 2x3TB and 2x1TB drives in both my NVX units and they have a volume of 4.6TB. In the sparc based 4 bay (NV+) with X-Raid all the drives must be the larger capacity before it will expand.
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