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nisei
Aug 08, 2011Follower
Ultra vs Pro and iSCSI questions
I'm looking for an SMB~ish NAS for my home lab running VMware vSphere and/or Citrix XenServer. I've read about the Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2/Ultra 4 and the Pro 2/Pro 4. Most of the time the NAS wil...
mdgm-ntgr
Aug 08, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
Ultra has slower hardware than Ultra Plus and Pro. See CPU Specs of the ReadyNAS
Ultra/Ultra Plus have 3 year warranties and lack business features.
Pro Series has 5 year warranty and business features (e.g. AD Integration, NIC Teaming, Rsync over SSH etc.).
I haven't ever used the Iomega devices
As far as I can tell there's no limit on the number of targets you can make. I just tested it and created 11 targets and could've easily created many more.
The size limit per target is up to 16TB (of course if your volume capacity is less then the limit's going to be less).
Of course there are going to be practical limitations on how many targets you can make.
Ultra/Ultra Plus have 3 year warranties and lack business features.
Pro Series has 5 year warranty and business features (e.g. AD Integration, NIC Teaming, Rsync over SSH etc.).
I haven't ever used the Iomega devices
As far as I can tell there's no limit on the number of targets you can make. I just tested it and created 11 targets and could've easily created many more.
The size limit per target is up to 16TB (of course if your volume capacity is less then the limit's going to be less).
Of course there are going to be practical limitations on how many targets you can make.
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