ReadyNAS Ultra versus PRO and Egnyte

Our engineers have ran some performance tests when our product was first in development. What they told me was that it runs okay with low data usage and user activity. But the bi-directional synchronization becomes very taxing to the ReadyNAS device when there are heavy data transfers, that's the main reason we do not recommend or support prosumer devices.

With that said, we are currently working on optimizing the data transfer process such that it becomes less taxing on ReadyNAS devices. Depending on the amount of optimization we can do on our end (keeping in mind the hardware specs are still the same on ReadyNAS), we might be more stable on prosumer devices, even with heavy data usage. I will keep the ReadyNAS community informed on the progress of the optimization and further prosumer device testing.

My personal suggestion (not Egnyte's) is to start a free trial and try it on the Ultra. I know there are several users that are running Egnyte on higher end prosumer devices. If you feel like you are comfortable with the performance, then by all means continue to use it.

~ Johnny