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MindBender
Aug 12, 2011Aspirant
What happened to Orb?
Orb was one of the secondary reasons why I selected a ReadyNAS Pro 6 as my new NAS a couple of months ago. Unfortunately the joy was short lived: Orb was very unstable and producing a lot of exception...
gibxxi
Nov 05, 2011Guide
MindBender wrote: That's why I feel screwed: I bought the ReadyNAS Pro 6, to make sure it had the processing power to transcode media streams (and because it's Windows domain compatible).
gibxxi wrote: Orb is fine for mid-range and upwards desktop PC media serving, but i guess the average ReadyNAS just doesn't have the raw grunt Orb needs to run flawlessly. Which is more a reflection on Orb, than it is on Netgear, as the aforementioned apps do the same thing as Orb with little problem.
Like I said above, Plex and Skifta work fine on the ReadyNAS. So the flaky Orb add-on is more a reflection on the people who developed the add-on (I'm guessing; The Orb people themselves) and the way it was implemented. The Orb add-on regularly crashed scanning even moderate size libraries. I don't get any problems with Plex or Skifta along these lines. And even Subsonic has ceased crashing on me since I did a factory reset with the latest stable x86 Firmware in place. I believe the support for this add-on was all from the Orb people, not Netgear. So it's withdrawl / failure to work would be an issue for them to answer for, and not Netgear, although I do sympathise with people who bought a ReadyNAS expressly for that purpose. In such instances, a statement to the effect that the add-on had been withdrawn probably wouldn't of been to much to ask for from Netgear, even if they weren't responsible for it's development. So I sympathise with you on that point.
But Like I said, there are better alternatives already available for this NAS. And if your not to worried by the "old-school" look of the ReadyNAS web GUI, the actual hardware itself is easily on a par with any other vendor's offerings, if not superior. I couldn't be happier with My Ultra 4, and most of the "issues" i've come across have been down to me.
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