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New ReadyNas 312/314/316?
I currently own a ReadyNas 4 Bay ultra and absolutely love the unit. I would like to upgrade this to a 6 unit NAS. However, I hear that this March 18th new upgraded units will be coming out. Is thi...
I partly agree with desktopguy in that it is a BIG disappointment that the new OS will not be available for existing ReadyNAS x86 units. I would have thought that this could at leats have been made available to the Pro units. Having recommended and installed several Pro units devices, some fairly recently it will reflect badly that devices we have recommended to business will now presumably not receive any future update. Having been to CES this year and seen the interfaces for Synology, Buffalo and the like, the ReadyNAS interface is far behind in both ease of use and available features.
While I have not seen the new interface/devices (not fortunate enough to be a beta tester for these devices!) I would have hoped that thos OS would have been backwards compatible to Pro x86 ReadyNAS devices.
Another question I have is that will Replicate become free for those with the Pro devices now that the licence fee has been removed for the new family of devices? I am guessing that it won't due to the fact the the ReadyNAS OS and interface will not be changing for the older devices.
I have been on the ReadyNAS bandwagon ever since it was Infrant however it seems that Netgear is now taking a dangerous path of neglecting existing users (specially business user's of the higher end devices) and this is certainly swaying me to look for another NAS brand that are prepared to offer these upgrades exisrting user's of soon to be phased out devices to recommend to be implemented into other businesses. As a software developer and hardware technician I cannot see too many technical issues in getting the new OS and interface to work on existing x86 devices (save for the fact that there may be a requirement to completely erase the existing NAS data to install a new OS and file system) as it is basically the same CPU platform and the only real issue may be some hardware drivers.
As mdgm said the old devices will not suddenly stop working or go our of warranty but I do think as mentioned above that the Pro Nas's at least (or even from the Pro4 upwards including the rack mount devices) that these should all have been able to get an OS/interface upgrade
While I have not seen the new interface/devices (not fortunate enough to be a beta tester for these devices!) I would have hoped that thos OS would have been backwards compatible to Pro x86 ReadyNAS devices.
Another question I have is that will Replicate become free for those with the Pro devices now that the licence fee has been removed for the new family of devices? I am guessing that it won't due to the fact the the ReadyNAS OS and interface will not be changing for the older devices.
I have been on the ReadyNAS bandwagon ever since it was Infrant however it seems that Netgear is now taking a dangerous path of neglecting existing users (specially business user's of the higher end devices) and this is certainly swaying me to look for another NAS brand that are prepared to offer these upgrades exisrting user's of soon to be phased out devices to recommend to be implemented into other businesses. As a software developer and hardware technician I cannot see too many technical issues in getting the new OS and interface to work on existing x86 devices (save for the fact that there may be a requirement to completely erase the existing NAS data to install a new OS and file system) as it is basically the same CPU platform and the only real issue may be some hardware drivers.
As mdgm said the old devices will not suddenly stop working or go our of warranty but I do think as mentioned above that the Pro Nas's at least (or even from the Pro4 upwards including the rack mount devices) that these should all have been able to get an OS/interface upgrade
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