Wow now that is a nice interface

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

Let's use this ANGER to make the product number 1 again on all the tests and in all the reviews...

Just like in the old days of INFRANT.. :? :shock: :) :o :D

Having had a chance to test my SS-439 (with 4x 500GB Momentus XT drives) for some days now ... Well, to be quite blunt: It runs in circles around the ReadyNAS 2100. Big circles. We're talking about 1.5x the speed on iSCSI set up to load balance over both the network cards (two IPs in both ends, round-robin load balancing between the portals). With standard 500GB Momentus 7200rpm laptop disks (not the XT hybrids) the performance difference is less, but the qnap still clocks in faster than the ReadyNAS2100, while also being cheaper.

Take down names all you want, but the facts remain the same.

//Svein

Svein_Skogen wrote:
Having had a chance to test my SS-439 (with 4x 500GB Momentus XT drives) for some days now ...

And the UI?

sphardy wrote:
Svein_Skogen wrote: Having had a chance to test my SS-439 (with 4x 500GB Momentus XT drives) for some days now ... And the UI?

I think the grade I'm looking for is "far less annoying", or possibly "less horrible", with a sprinkle of "less illogical". ;)

//Svein

Check out the 2nd post of this thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=46597

Irrespective of anything else, that post highlights exactly the type of basic improvement that Frontview requires.

That the interface does little checking that the options being selected are actually valid is very poor. The interface should respond instantly, and not force a user to look elsewhere or to download and sift through numerous cryptic logs to get a clue as to what has gone wrong.

I hate to do this but...

http://www.synology.com/enu/video/video_dsm3.0.php

its so good!

ReadyNAS, here is what you need to do.

Call these guys - http://8020studio.com/

They will help you create an amazing control panel interface.

Oh and add eSATA for faster backups.

Even without the interface, Netgear has a long way to go. I think Readynas has just become a hobby for them rather than a real product they are trying to sell. Anyone want to buy my NV+? I'm switching companies.

I will agree that the UI is not fancy and has some issues but I do not find that it is bad enough to switch to an different product. I have never been partial to interfaces with a lot of eye candy. I far prefer a UI that is simple and the options are easy to find. I actually prefer a good command line utility to a GUI especially if the utility can be used in scripts.

I have not seen anything that would give the impression that Netgear is treating the ReadyNAS as a hobby, they are releasing new hardware models and updating the firmware, except for the legacy Sparc based units. It may not be helpful if you, like me, have one of these legacy units but that is the nature of the industry. I have a Sun Blade 1000 Workstation that has a Standard Sun video card that Solaris 11 doesn't support. Apple OS X no longer support the PowerPC architecture.

But Netgear still supports (and produces and sells) the NV+ a unit that is rapidly approaching it's 5th birthday. I have an Infrant NV+, and when it was announced that Netgear was purchasing Infrant only a few months after I bought mine, I was concerned. But for the next several years, I never really thought much about it as the NV+ just kept plugging along, runing 24/365 without the least problem and I never had to touch Frontview. Then I started taking steps to increase the network speed, and then purchased an NVX to increase the NAS speed. When I started looking at NAS device, while I casually looked at other brands, my serious consideration was the Netgear ReadyNAS line and all the new boxes that had appeared under the label of Netgear.

In setting up my NVX, I had to use Frontview for the first time in years, and still found it very functional although not the fanciest interface. Again, once I had the NVX set up, Frontview was again ignored.

Today, I generally log on to Frontview to answer the question of someone on the forum. To me, Frontview is kind of like the BIOS interface on my PC except Frontview does look better. I mean, once it is set up and functioning, you don't need to access it. If you were in it as much as you were on your browser, then the looks may be an issue, but unless your changing a setting, you are not in it.