Netgear RND2000-100ISS or netgear duo 2000 v2 ?

anyone?

The RND2000-100 is the original sparc based Duo now generally referred to as the Duo (v1) although that is not the official designation. It is powered by the old Infrant SPARC developed CPU and has been discontinued although many may still be in the retail chain. It is a good functional basic NAS, but is limited to 2TB disks (larger than 2TB require GPT (GUID Partition Table) rather than MBR (Master Boot Redord) and the no longer supported Linux kernel in use in the SPARC will not do that.

The Duo v2 (official name) is the RND2000-200 and has Marvell ARM based CPU. It is much faster than the Duo (v1), has the newer RAIDiator 5.3.x operating system. It also supports hard drives larger than 2TB, currently limited to 3TB only because 4TB drives are just hitting the market and there is no 4TB drive that has cleared evaluation for use in the ARM based Duo v2 and NV+ v2. However, this series is considered an entry level system and does not yet have the features of the higher level x-86 based ReadyNAS units (currently the Ultra, Ultra Plus and Pro series in 2, 4 and 6 bays). However, it would be a very good basic NAS for file storage.

I don't know what the price levels are in your market, but the Duo should be a significant discount from the Duo v2. Most likely the Duo v2 would be listed as RND2000-200EUS which would be for the European Union and would include power connectors for all included EU markets.

The difference ist arround 20-30 € not much, but if I cant use the addons the v2 is worth 0.
So is it possible to use the addons or not because of the different processor architecture?

Will the community programm the addons new or patch it or whatever?

:-)

Thx

Community add-ons for the Duo v2 are listed here: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=147

If add-ons are very important to you go with the Ultra 2. The x86 (Intel) ReadyNAS platform has the greatest range of add-ons available. The x86 desktop models also have 1GB RAM (memory upgrades are not supported).

Thx 4 the information, but the NV+ is much to expensiv for me.

I dont want to spend more then 130 € for a NAS.

So I can buy the duo v1 or the duo v2.

What I want to do with the NAS?

1. Storing and hearing my music over UPNP
2. Storing and streaming my movies to my htpc
3. Something like a Cloud, like dropbox would be cool
4. It would be nice, if a could run a dll downloader like jdownloader on it
5. FTP for sure
6.A Bittorrent server or downloader would be also nice
7.Hosting my Websites,means Webserver, apache whatever


And that should work with XP, Win7, Android and Ubuntu

So is this possible with the v1 or the v2 ?

Thx in advance

Hawk

Can anyone tell me, is what I want possible with the v1 or v2?

Would be nice, if I could get a answer :-)

Hawk,

I realize this a little old now but I thought I'd post my experience in-case others are looking. It would be good to hear from someone with a Duo v2.

I have a Duo 1 and am running almost all of what you want including:

* BitTorrent
* Web based file manager
* Stream audio/video via DNLA (to Smart TV)
* Run a squeezebox server to stream music
* Run a simple website

I had to upgrade the amount of RAM to 1GB to run all that stuff and the bit torrent client sometimes falls over if there is lots going on at the same time (streaming video, downloading torrents and using the squeezebox web app). Considering It cost me around $150 with two 500GB disks I think it is awesome but I now only have around 50GB left on the RAID I am considering something a little bigger. I definitely don't want an x86 nas because the the high power consumption but think an ARM based nas might be just right.

J