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 easier to joust blow out he OS and restore from a backup - if she had one.Recommendation?I like my RND2110 and have two drives in it but really think for her that's overkill...thanks and, looking forward to your replies! :)

Get yourself an Ultra or your Pro, transfer your files across your network to it and then wipe the Duo and give it to your Mum.

mdgm wrote:Get yourself an Ultra or your Pro, transfer your files across your network to it and then wipe the Duo and give it to your Mum.Sounds like a good idea. Also set it up so you can manage it remotely through the firewall. If there's enough capacity you can set them up so that her files are backed up on your new NAS, and at least some of yours are backed up on hers...

Folks,Great idea I suppose, to upgrade my box, but there wasn't in the plan an option to spend MY money!Sure, I suppose my upgrade would be offset by deducting my original purchase price for the 2110 (plus additional drive) but geez.As it stands, and if i were to upgrade, not sure a "better" NAS box would be the way to go.I lean more towards a home server that would dish out ASPX pages for example.Devil's Advocate, what does a better NAS box get me?I'm pretty good on storage now and the X-RAID at least feels good on the redundancy side.Also, the recommendation is PRO or ULTRA... A little more specific please?

Just stumbled on this:http://www.readynas.com/wp-content/uplo ... n_Home.pdfand I suppose now have a better understand regards the netgear NAS option set.In particular, am looking at the various ULTRA / PRO options.Just one PRO option on the "Home" chart - assuming this is the PRO option referenced above?UlTRA is however a different beast with 6 different options on the "Home" chart.So, and per my eariler question, which upgrade paths are you recommending for ULTRA / PRO with consideration regards my being relatively content with my DUO? What for example am I missing? Sure, an open ended question perhaps since the answer is based on where I want to go but, because the recommendation to upgrade was offered here unsolicited, perhaps you see a compelling reason to jump up that I do not?Okay, I'll help.X-RAID2 is so much better than X-RAID because?VOLUME MANAGEMENT is better because?4+ DRIVES is better than 2 because? Sure, perhaps more storage space (assuming related to VOL MGMT if configured accordingly but that I assume impacts redundancy)BETTER CPU / MORE MEMORY = better transfer speed? Very noticable?MULTIPLE ETHERNET PORTS: support multiple networks? Perhaps better transfer speeds if you double connect into a single router?FIRMWARE MEMORY: more apps? Are there apps avaialbe beyond those avaialble for the DUO that make upgrading more tempting?

The performance gain of the Ultra and Pro over the Duo is not subtle, it is very noticeable.I have 2 different disk drive sizes in the Pro (xraid-2), so for me that was a nice-to-have.If you are the only user, you will not get much gain from dual ethernet,.You won't get aspx in anything but a Windows box.I have a couple of plug-ins installed, though my main interest is storage, so other folks might be in a better position to comment.Seems to me you already know the tradeoffs, I am not sure where you are going here.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Nov 01, 2011
PapaBear wrote:
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!
Yes, I was being too understated. :D After a couple months with the pro, it would be very painful to back to the duo as my main NAS.

PapaBear wrote:
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!

maxblack

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Nov 01, 2011

flazer wrote:
maxblack wrote:
I dunno flazer, I think you're making a mistake here. After all, it's been said many times "you gotta backup your NAS" i.e. it could fail as well, and in the end you have to buy something to back IT up so...

Appreciate your reply as well; however, not sure where you are headed here... If your box is a primary repository then yes, makes sense to have a second backup plan, But (as in this case), the box for mom would serve purely to back up: hard to see the need for yet anther box. After all, there would exists 3 copies for each of my mom's machines - the originals on each machine and the double copy in the NAS box (provided said box has 2+ physical drives).

I don't disagree. However the "nightmare scenario" remains, which is a lightning strike/power hit that kills all 3 at once. It happens.

I like removable drives for backups of irreplaceable data--connect, back-up, disconnect, store somewhere safe. I like NAS for sharing common files across a multi-PC network 24/7, and yes it allows easy backup of networked PC files on-the-fly.

mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 02, 2011
I agree that offsite backup of irreplaceable data is a good idea. Depending how much irreplaceable data your Mum has using something like the free version of Dropbox might be sufficient for that, whilst still using the NAS to backup everything.

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