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Will Not Buy a ReadyNAS ever again
It's not because of the hardware. The hardware in its basic form works. It's because of the COMPLETE LACK OF APPS. If all I wanted was a cage for drives, I'd buy an ESATA frame. I bought a Ready...
Well, I have increasingly felt the pinch of owning older devices running 4.x, with no solid upgrade path to 6.x. Yeah, I get why there's no money in doing it. But there is a very clear migration of developers away from 4.x now, and for those of us who do enjoy running apps on them it gets increasingly harder to maintain.
As for the Duo, was that an ARM-based system running 5.x? Yeah, I have no clue what the app space is like there, but that was like a quick blip on the way to ROS6. I don't know if other SOHO NAS vendors do any better on the sustainability measure, but I wouldn't be too happy if I was trying to execute my use cases on a 5.x box...
It's the one thing I caution people about buying any such product... get an idea of your use cases and the capabilities of the systems you're interested in BEFORE plopping down the $$$. I wouldn't have any problem recommending ReadyNAS on newer hardware and ROS6, but anyone seeking older hardware still around (perhaps to save $$$) I would caution against that.
As for the Duo, was that an ARM-based system running 5.x? Yeah, I have no clue what the app space is like there, but that was like a quick blip on the way to ROS6. I don't know if other SOHO NAS vendors do any better on the sustainability measure, but I wouldn't be too happy if I was trying to execute my use cases on a 5.x box...
It's the one thing I caution people about buying any such product... get an idea of your use cases and the capabilities of the systems you're interested in BEFORE plopping down the $$$. I wouldn't have any problem recommending ReadyNAS on newer hardware and ROS6, but anyone seeking older hardware still around (perhaps to save $$$) I would caution against that.
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