List of Legacy Readynas devices

I am trying to locate a list of old ReadyNas models. Years ago I had a 5-bay unit that has long been discarded. But I still have the 5 2-TB drives that were in the unit.

Does anyone have any idea what the model numbers of 5 -bay units were perhaps 8 to 10 years ago? Shot in the dark I know...

Appreciate any suggestions. Thank you...

Sandshark
Jun 23, 2020
I am not aware of the existance of a 5-bay model. The original pre-Netgear NAS were the 4-bay desktop 600, X6, and NV and the rack-mount 1000s. Then came Netgear with the 4-bay NV+, NVX, and 1100, 2-bay Duo, and 6-bay Pro (Business Edition and Pioneer versions) -- though I think those were in development by Infrant before the Netgear acquisition. From there, everything is all 2, 4, 6 or 8 bays for desktops and 4, 12, or 60 for rack mount. The EDA500 expansion chassis was 5-bay, but it had to be attached to a base NAS and that was <8 years ago that it was introduced.

Netgear did have a NAS before they acquired Infrant, which was not a ReadyNAS, but I don't think that was 5-bay, either. I think it was just 2-bay. And that would have been >10 years ago. They also had the 2-bay Stora, which was a complete disaster and abandoned leaving the owners no way to use their device because it had to have a link with the Netgear server that was taken down.

Maybe you had a 6-bay NAS and only had 5 drives installed?

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JohnCM_S
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jun 23, 2020
Hi dscycler108,

Welcome to the Community!

As far as I remember we do not have 5-bay ReadyNAS for the legacy models. What we do have are the 6-bay ones. The legacy 6-bay models that I remember are ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer, Pro Business, Pro 6, Utlra 6 and Ultra 6 plus.

We do have 5-bay expansion chassis before which is called the EDA500.

Regards,
Sandshark
Sensei - Experienced User
Jun 23, 2020
I am not aware of the existance of a 5-bay model. The original pre-Netgear NAS were the 4-bay desktop 600, X6, and NV and the rack-mount 1000s. Then came Netgear with the 4-bay NV+, NVX, and 1100, 2-bay Duo, and 6-bay Pro (Business Edition and Pioneer versions) -- though I think those were in development by Infrant before the Netgear acquisition. From there, everything is all 2, 4, 6 or 8 bays for desktops and 4, 12, or 60 for rack mount. The EDA500 expansion chassis was 5-bay, but it had to be attached to a base NAS and that was <8 years ago that it was introduced.

Netgear did have a NAS before they acquired Infrant, which was not a ReadyNAS, but I don't think that was 5-bay, either. I think it was just 2-bay. And that would have been >10 years ago. They also had the 2-bay Stora, which was a complete disaster and abandoned leaving the owners no way to use their device because it had to have a link with the Netgear server that was taken down.

Maybe you had a 6-bay NAS and only had 5 drives installed?
- dscycler108
  Aspirant
  Jun 23, 2020
  Thank you both for replying timely. The unit I had was a ReadyNas Pro Business.
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jun 24, 2020
    dscycler108 wrote:
    
    Thank you both for replying timely. The unit I had was a ReadyNas Pro Business.
    
    The Pro had two sizes - a four bay model and a six bay model. So you must have had 5 disks installed in a 6-bay unit (or perhaps aren't remembering the number of disks correctly).
    
    There were also versions of each - the original Pro products (Pro Pioneer and Pro Business Edition) and the later Pro / Pro 6. The later versions had a faster CPU.
    
    We might be able to provide more help if we knew more about what you are trying to accomplish.