Wow now that is a nice interface

Richy_Boy wrote:

I recently found that Promise make a large range of quality NAS systems and by the looks of the GUI in their user manual it also looks way ahead of anything Netgear have done. I've been using ReadyNAs devices for years now and there has been zero work on the GUI from what I recall. That wouldn't be such a big problem, but when you've got scroling windows within scrolling windows once you have long backup links/folders, yet have a whopping 22" monitor on your desk.. it's a bit naff - especially as the PRO devices we run aren't exactly cheap! Rich

If you look deep in code you will see that they have done some change

I think they are thinking and/or working on it , but for me it's not the highest priority

I think it should have more PRIO because it another BIG selling argument for Synology / QNAP etc... so would it be for Netgear.

Thanks for the feedback guys, but we don't pre-announce what we're going to be doing. If we let you know, you know what we'll do to you if you spill the beans :nashammer:

I thought it was called having a public roadmap, which is a good thing for sales, as people may invest in a ReadyNAS device for a feature which is not yet here (rather than going to competition which has it already, yet the hardware may not be quite as good).

By the way.. I need faster disks in my RN PRO.. are 15k SAS drives compatiability possible / on the roadmap? i.e. when using ESX I seem to run out of IOPS using SATA drives way before the network bandwidth is saturted (single GB link).

Rich

But preannouncing what they're doing would signal to the competition as to what NetGear reckons it needs to do to maintain its position of producing the best NAS product in the market. There's obvious reasons why the Jedi keep their plans to themselves.

Ofcourse the major secrets like possible blocklevel replication between readynasses shouldn't be made public. But what would the announcement of an advanced multi tasks AJAX web 2.0 frontview tell the competition... nothing ... because the competition already HAS IT!

;-)

To be very blunt, I'd take a good old fashioned CLI over that synology form-over-function webgui any day. But then again I'm no fan of glossy plastic either, and used to manage a national-sized telco for a living before my health gave up on me. A rock solid CLI interface (which would still be responsive over a 9600 baud connection, btw) would quite likely need less cpu on the unit as well, cpu cycles that would be better spent on things like pattern-matching cache pre-fetches and other performance boosts.

//Svein

I understand that but synology and qnap manage to give and the nice GUI and even better benchmarks on www.smallnetbuilders.com

QNAP's are peformance KING... not readynas anymore :-(

OK, chirpa, start taking names. :twisted:

yoh-dah wrote:
OK, chirpa, start taking names. :twisted:

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