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I picked up this readynas duo from a friend who owed me some money.
I was going to drop it on ebay after testing it but I have had nothing but issues with it.
I dropped a drive in it and waited for a bit, it loaded the os itself (i think)
After a while I hit the web interface and clicked a few buttons to get the system up and running.
I then checked the firmware and done a update to : 4.1.16
I then upgraded the ram from 256mb to 512mb as I had a stick laying about.
I tried to access a shared folder and just could not get in, after some digging about I found it was windows 10 blocking access as the readynas duo was only running smb 1.
I checked for updates using the build in update checker to find no updates, so I hit the netgear website and downloaded an upgate v5.3.13 but it keep failing to install, I tried in chrome and IE.
I also tried to load 6.9.2 with no luck.
I am feeling like the box is a V1 and not V2 as the sticker on the bottom states.
Any help on this would be great.
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ok, next question is am I stuck at firmware version 4 with no samba v2/3 ?
Yes. OS 5.x also is SMB 1.0.
There is experimental support for SMB 2.0 in the Samba version your Duo uses, but I don't know how reliable that is. To enable it you'd have to first enable SSH by installing an add-on, and then log into the linux shell and tinker with a configuration file. Note that the OS is installed on the disks, so anyone installing new disks would need to repeat this procedure.
My own Duo v1 is used only to back up bigger/faster NAS, and I only have rsync enabled on it.
As far as performance goes, SMB speed is ~15-20 MB/s on a gigabit network. Disk size is limited to 2 TB, because GPT formatting is not supported. This model was replaced by the v2 in November, 2011.
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It is a Duo v1 that uses a sparc processor. More pedantically, it is hardware revision 2 of the Duo v1.
The labeling is confusing - Netgear should have branded the Duo v2 differently.
A Duo v2 would have a v2 label on front and the part number would end with -200UKS.
ok, next question is am I stuck at firmware version 4 with no samba v2/3 ?
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ok, next question is am I stuck at firmware version 4 with no samba v2/3 ?
Yes. OS 5.x also is SMB 1.0.
There is experimental support for SMB 2.0 in the Samba version your Duo uses, but I don't know how reliable that is. To enable it you'd have to first enable SSH by installing an add-on, and then log into the linux shell and tinker with a configuration file. Note that the OS is installed on the disks, so anyone installing new disks would need to repeat this procedure.
My own Duo v1 is used only to back up bigger/faster NAS, and I only have rsync enabled on it.
As far as performance goes, SMB speed is ~15-20 MB/s on a gigabit network. Disk size is limited to 2 TB, because GPT formatting is not supported. This model was replaced by the v2 in November, 2011.
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