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Shadow1980
Aug 23, 2011Aspirant
Thinking of Upgrading from ReadyNAS Duo - Best options?
I currently own a ReadyNAS Duo with 2x 1.5TB drives. (~1.3TB of usuable space) The only real change I made was upgrading the RAM to 1GB, as it was a cheap upgrade at the time and came highly recommen...
mdgm-ntgr
Aug 23, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
You could migrate your disks to the NV+, but like the Duo that is limited at 2TB drives. The NV+ has the same CPU and memory as the Duo and performance should be pretty much the same.
Far better to get an Ultra, Ultra Plus or a Pro and transfer your data across your network (can't migrate disks as migrating to a different platform) to the new NAS. The Ultra, Ultra Plus and Pro are much faster than the Duo/NV+, support 3TB drives and are much more future proof. Whilst you may not wish to use 3TB drives now as they are quite expensive you may well want to use them a few years or so down the track.
Far better to get an Ultra, Ultra Plus or a Pro and transfer your data across your network (can't migrate disks as migrating to a different platform) to the new NAS. The Ultra, Ultra Plus and Pro are much faster than the Duo/NV+, support 3TB drives and are much more future proof. Whilst you may not wish to use 3TB drives now as they are quite expensive you may well want to use them a few years or so down the track.
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