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Maxpower411
Apr 22, 2021Aspirant
ReadyNas 516 and My Future
ReadyNas 516 Latest Firmware, 5- 12TB drives (with the #2 Drive Removed, for Command Timeout Issues- I have recently spent a lot of time, working with my old ReadyNas 516. First it had a disk failur...
- Apr 24, 2021
I'm glad you got through it.
Maxpower411
Apr 22, 2021Aspirant
Stephen- Thanks for the quick reply, I did see the one for $1050, (Blue Square Power) but tried to look them up, on the netgear authorized resellers list, but could not find them. (they claim they are, but I have found people lie) I feel the 5 year warranty is important, and want to make sure they are legit. The CDW, was the $1200.00 price, they say,it should be in stock by the 9th, I am sure they are authorized Netgear Dealers.
As far as the 516 goes, I have no problem, doing another factory reset, as there is no data in it, or expectations- I think I might have done it twice, but will try again, the resysc is so slow- I couldn't care less. I figure with the Factory reset it blanks all drives, and starts as new, maybe there is an issue, with the bad bus, causing this errror. (but I will give it another shot)
Has anyone bought anything such as a ready NAS from Blue Square Power listed in the earlier link?
Lastly, I feel that I would rather goto the 626, than the RN4 series, as most all of that is EOL, and if Netgear quits making the NAS,I would rather have a Later Netgear than one of these non Netgear out there.
I spent about a week looking, and the (Blue Square Power/CDW were the only sellers out there, I could find.($1200 or less for a new Netgear NAS)
Thanks again-
Jeff
StephenB
Apr 22, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Maxpower411 wrote:
Lastly, I feel that I would rather goto the 626, than the RN4 series, as most all of that is EOL, and if Netgear quits making the NAS,I would rather have a Later Netgear
Just to clarify this: The RN520 and RN620 series were launched in 2016; the RN420 series were launched in 2017. So the RN420 series is a year newer than the RN620.
The RN626 does have some advantages - it supports 10 gigabit ethernet, and has server-grade (error correcting) RAM.
Maxpower411 wrote:
I did see the one for $1050, (Blue Square Power) but tried to look them up, on the netgear authorized resellers list, but could not find them.
JohnCM_S , Marc_V : is something you can check? They aren't on this list: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/NETGEAR_Authorized_Resellers.pdf But I don't know if it is up do date.
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