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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.
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.
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