ReadyNAS Ultra versus PRO and Egnyte

Thank you Johnny...

That is disappointing. From what I an tell the ULtra Plus NAS is very similar to the basic Pro models.

Can you ask your folks what specific problems I might encounter utilizing my Ultra Plus (with my emphasis on the Plus).

I own and operate a small business, currently with less than 5 full time employees. The
Ultra Plus has been terrific for us. The Ultra Plus is very fast and very capable and seems to be missing very few capabilities ofnthe Pro models. Others here can definitely detail the differences better than I.

What model of NAS would you folks recommend for us?.

Can your folks explain what features or capabilities the Ultr Plus is lacking that would be important for a business as small as mine? I'm thinking your folks may have concern about features we may never utilize.

Where on your web page do you discuss the suggested models of Ready NAS?

Thx!

Pro 2 would be the recommended model. As far as I can tell it has exactly the same hardware as the Ultra 2 Plus. So as I said above the only reason why it might not work on an Ultra 2 Plus would be software issues (which I would think would be unlikely).

These models are supported: http://www.readynas.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ReadyNAS_Comparison_Business.pdf

It is of course best to stick to supported models as if you have problems you'd want to be able to get support.

Thank you Matthew.

Can you explain for me what "Active Directory" is and what situation would I desire having it? I have lived happily without it for this long with my Ultra Plus!

Active Directory integration is integration with a Windows Domain i.e. if you have a Windows Server that is a Domain Controller.

First of all, thanks Matthew for the support :)

Cain wrote:
Where on your web page do you discuss the suggested models of Ready NAS?

Our helpdesk page here explains what NAS models are supported.
It includes the same pdf comparison chart that Matthew posted earlier: http://www.readynas.com/wp-content/uplo ... siness.pdf

~ Johnny

Cain wrote:

Thank you Johnny... That is disappointing. From what I an tell the Ultra Plus NAS is very similar to the basic Pro models. It appears to meet your hardware specs. Can you ask your folks what specific problems I might encounter utilizing my Ultra Plus (with my emphasis on the Plus)? Can your folks explain what features or capabilities the Ultra Plus is lacking that would be important for a business as small (less than 5 users) as mine? I'm thinking your folks may have concern about features we may never utilize. Thx!

Thx again Johnny... I see your link that says which models of NAS you suggest is from Jun-29 2010 10:26 pm.

I'd really like to utilize your service, perhaps you can ask your tech folks to do some testing on the Ultra Plus series??

I'm sure there are more small businesses like mine that selected the Ultra Plus, based on our needs - but would also like to utilize your Local Cloud service.

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

Guys, i have a NVX, ultra 4 and ultra 6

Can i try to use egnyte on the ultra6 (it has a dual core atom) or the NVX?

thx

Give the free trial a go.

Personally I'd recommend trying it on the Ultra 6.

The NVX is an older model and is 32-bit.