Pro 6 vs Ultra 6 Plus

sgibbers17 wrote:

I am also looking to get a readyNAS for home use and was wondering if the extra processing power of the pro 6 make a big difference in normal use or is the extra power for rebuilding the array and increasing array size when upgrading? I assume that the bottleneck is the network speed during normal use and not the processor. I see the the Pro 6 also supports Link Aggregation/Teaming does the ultra 6 or ultra 6+ also support Link Aggregation/Teaming? I can't find it referenced on Netgear's site. The Ultra 6 and 6+ also has 2 Ethernet ports, if Teaming is not supported why are there 2 Ethernet ports?

I went with the pro 6, I don't have any ultras to directly compare it to.

Link aggregation is a business feature, not available in the Ultra. There might be some third party add-ons that give you some of the features. Though my advice is to go with the pro if you want that. In the ultra, you do get failover, and you can connect the 2 Ethernet ports to separate networks (at least I believe you can).

If you only want to use the NAS as a file server, then any of these systems would have enough CPU performance. If you want to do media transcoding, or use the NAS for other applications (for instance, as a web server), then the extra speed of the pro line would be an advantage.

BTW, the warranties are also different.