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ReadyNAS 202 Series EOL End-of-Lifetime - when?
Hi!
Does anybody know how long the RN 202 Series will be supported? When is it's official End of Lifetime?
Kind regards,
Bernd.
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Hello be9000,
ReadyNAS 200 (202 and 204) series is a ReadyNAS OS6 and one of the new units. Before the release of ReadyNAS 200 series, ReadyNAS 100 came out along with 300, 516 and 716X desktop NAS units.
Although I do not have the exact information when it will join EOL devices, I do think it remain available for a reasonable period time. If you have not purchased it yet, it is still best to get the 210 as that is the latest. See difference between the two below.
Welcome to the community!
Hope this helps somehow.
Regards,
The RN200 series also supports link aggregation.
The main difference here is the real-time transcoding feature of the RN210 (enabled by the quadcore processor uplift). At current street prices, the RN204 about $100 less expensive than the RN214 (Amazon US).
I agree that if you haven't got one yet that the 210 series is the way to go as it's newer and more powerful.
The RN200 series and the RN210 series have almost identical hardware with the key difference being the CPU. So as long as we do development work on one it should be easy to do so for the other.They are our newest desktop ReadyNAS models as has already been mentioned.
As for when storage products go EOL we don't announce that in advance.
When a ReadyNAS does go EOL whilst firmware updates possibly might cease you may still be able to purchase per incident support or a data recovery contract should the need arise. You can also, of course seek help here on the community.
The 200 series uses ARM CPUs.
NAS units with Intel CPUs (e.g. 300 series, 516, 716x) tend to have better longevity in terms of working with new firmware. Though unsupported the OS for our current units with Intel CPUs can be run on legacy models (with Intel 64-bit CPUs) released back as far as 2008.
The 210 series provides transcoding that you'd have to pay multiple times the price for to match/better with an Intel model. I love my 516, but the 210 series would be a better fit for many home budgets.
Hi,
thanks very much so far for the answers. I wasn't really aware of the RN210 line.
Specifically I have two competitors NAS that reached EOL and it makes me so sad (and angry) that I have nicely running hardware with no ongoing firmware support.
I want to force myself to better watch out for EOLs before the buy, but I see there is no official statement about the minimum years of support either.
Kind regards
Bernd.
be9000 wrote:
I want to force myself to better watch out for EOLs before the buy, but I see there is no official statement about the minimum years of support either.
Unfortunately correct. But I think they will continue to release OS6 updates that are compatible with all OS6 hardware platforms.
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