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ReadyNas Pro 6 vs. newer 300 Series 312
So I currently own a ReadyNas Pro 6 (RNDP6310) that has 6-1tb drives in it. (I have it connected with a gigabit ethernet cable to a 3.4GHz Intel Core i7 iMac w/16GB of ram as well as accessing it wire...
The Pro 6 uses a fast Intel Pentium CPU
The Pro 2 and the 300 series use Intel Atom CPUs.
The 312, 314 and 316 all use the same CPU (a newer one than the one in the Pro 2).
Performance wise the Pro 6 would fall in between the 312 and the 516. So there would be some trade-off going to the 312 from the Pro 6 between the smaller form factor and quieter unit of the 312 and the higher performance of the Pro 6.
Unless you do things that use lots of CPU a lot you shouldn't notice too much difference between the 312 and the 516. However, if you want to say run Plex Media Server on your NAS and transcode video to play on the fly on an iPad then I would definitely go with the 516.
Unless your NAS swaps a lot you shouldn't need a RAM upgrade.
The firmware certainly has improved a lot, especially recently and NetGear is working on further improvements. For a new setup I would suggest putting a disk in, updating to the latest firmware, verifying the firmware update was successful, then power down, put all disks in and do a factory default. Following this process will get you a clean setup on the latest firmware.
ReadyNAS OS uses a newer version of Netatalk (which provides the AFP service for the ReadyNAS) and a newer version of Samba (The SMB/CIFS service, Apple is moving away from using AFP to using SMB so Samba will take on increasing importance for Mac users going forward not just for Windows users or those in mixed Windows/Mac environments). Compatibility with Macs and Windows machines has improved. I haven't checked on an iOS device recently.
The Pro 2 and the 300 series use Intel Atom CPUs.
The 312, 314 and 316 all use the same CPU (a newer one than the one in the Pro 2).
Performance wise the Pro 6 would fall in between the 312 and the 516. So there would be some trade-off going to the 312 from the Pro 6 between the smaller form factor and quieter unit of the 312 and the higher performance of the Pro 6.
Unless you do things that use lots of CPU a lot you shouldn't notice too much difference between the 312 and the 516. However, if you want to say run Plex Media Server on your NAS and transcode video to play on the fly on an iPad then I would definitely go with the 516.
Unless your NAS swaps a lot you shouldn't need a RAM upgrade.
The firmware certainly has improved a lot, especially recently and NetGear is working on further improvements. For a new setup I would suggest putting a disk in, updating to the latest firmware, verifying the firmware update was successful, then power down, put all disks in and do a factory default. Following this process will get you a clean setup on the latest firmware.
ReadyNAS OS uses a newer version of Netatalk (which provides the AFP service for the ReadyNAS) and a newer version of Samba (The SMB/CIFS service, Apple is moving away from using AFP to using SMB so Samba will take on increasing importance for Mac users going forward not just for Windows users or those in mixed Windows/Mac environments). Compatibility with Macs and Windows machines has improved. I haven't checked on an iOS device recently.
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