AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

mdgm wrote:
I don't I think there's any urgent need for NetGear to include Netatalk 2.2 in the firmware at the moment. So you could be waiting a while.

We use a ReadyNAS to backup a handful of Macs across a network. Has worked pretty well for a couple of years, and nothing much wrong with the box or the disks. So would be disappointing to have to replace it simply to get it to behave nicely with Lion - and I suspect we'll be upgrading to Lion pretty promptly after it arrives. Based on experience, and comments elsewhere in this forum, there appears to be no grounds for certainty that Netgear will upgrade the AFP on the NV+ series of boxes at all, which would leave us in a bit of a bind.

I suppose we'd look to replace the box with whatever equivalent NAS device provides the appropriate level of AFP support soonest: we had a good look at the options a few weeks ago, and currently we think the Synology DS1511+ is the best replacement, with the Ultra 4 plus coming in close behind... but both lots of $$ for not a huge improvement in functionality.

Anyhow - we'll keep our fingers crossed.