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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 understand the fact that there has to be some stage where bug fixes stop on EOL'ed devices. However to stop bug fixes prior to devices being EOL'ed is certain uncommon if not rare! This is evidenced by the long wait from when 4.2.22 was released, when 4.2.23 was first beta'd and then when 4.2.23 was 'officially' dropped (viewtopic.php?f=51&t=69201&start=135).
I would have thought there would at least be some interest in Netgear to get this working on at least the Pro devices as the Pro6 at least is generally seen as a SMB product and business generally don't like seeing this sort of behaviour on devices they may have purchased a month before a new line is announced. It certainly doesn't help build confidence in a new product being supported in the future. There was certainly no mention of any new ReadyNAS devices at the recent CES 2013 conference in Las Vegas which leads me to believe this was always their intention to just abandon any bug fixes on the older x86 devices in addition to their already stated position of not releasing the newer OS on existing 64 bit x86 devices.
The fact that there is a t least a possible revenue stream (ie: older devices getting the new OS and buy default getting access to the app store giving Netgear $ from app store sales royalties on ReadyNAS apps) and also that it is showing Netgear to be supporting the ReadyNAS customers they already have would have (in my opinion) been reason enough to make this happen. Customer confidence can often be worth a lot more in the long run than the initial cost of supporting recently EOL'ed devices.
I would have thought there would at least be some interest in Netgear to get this working on at least the Pro devices as the Pro6 at least is generally seen as a SMB product and business generally don't like seeing this sort of behaviour on devices they may have purchased a month before a new line is announced. It certainly doesn't help build confidence in a new product being supported in the future. There was certainly no mention of any new ReadyNAS devices at the recent CES 2013 conference in Las Vegas which leads me to believe this was always their intention to just abandon any bug fixes on the older x86 devices in addition to their already stated position of not releasing the newer OS on existing 64 bit x86 devices.
The fact that there is a t least a possible revenue stream (ie: older devices getting the new OS and buy default getting access to the app store giving Netgear $ from app store sales royalties on ReadyNAS apps) and also that it is showing Netgear to be supporting the ReadyNAS customers they already have would have (in my opinion) been reason enough to make this happen. Customer confidence can often be worth a lot more in the long run than the initial cost of supporting recently EOL'ed devices.
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