I'm looking to upgrade from my Ultra 4 Plus to the recently released RN626X. Although, ordering one may take some time given the product was just announced in September. That said, has anyone taken the plunge and could give some feedback on your experience so far. I'd be interested as I'm sure others would be too who are in the market for a newer NAS. I'll admitt that I also looked at the competitiion but truth be told they didn't seem to offer the performance compared to Netgear's products. The reviews for some were also all over the place. I did some digging and came across a couple reviews but would sitll like to hear from users. http://www.anandtech.com/show/10633/netgear-brings-broadwellde-to-cots-nas-units-with-new-10g-readynas-lineup http://www.storagereview.com/netgear_expands_readynas_family_with_five_new_nas_systems Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

Hey Guru! (one of my favorite rappers, next to Nas of course) While you wait for some more responders, you can check out this Apple Tech Talk review for the 526x. It's not the 626x, but this review is more indepth than others and the 526x will give you a good idea of its bigger brother.

I've got the RN626X (as I work for NETGEAR and need one for my role the company provided me one) and I love it. It has a quad-core CPU (vs the dual-core in the RN526X) and 8GB ECC DDR4 RAM (vs 4GB ECC DDR4 RAM in the RN526X) and has two 1Gb ports in addition to the 2x 10GBASE-T ports (RN526X has just the 2x10GBASE-T ports). I tried using it with Plex and found that it didn't have to break a sweat with a video that my RN516 would have had to work a lot harder on. But then with a newer more powerful CPU generation and double the cores that's to be expected. Any use case which requires a huge amount of CPU resources is going to benefit from getting the RN626X vs the RN526X. We've found that more users than we expected have looked at the RN526X and RN626X and found they want/need the extra performance of the RN626X and that the extra it costs is good value for money.

wiwa wrote:Hey Guru! (one of my favorite rappers, next to Nas of course)While you wait for some more responders, you can check out this Apple Tech Talk review for the 526x.It's not the 626x, but this review is more indepth than others and the 526x will give you a good idea of its bigger brother. Nice find and it certainly gives a bit more insight.

mdgm wrote:I've got the RN626X (as I work for NETGEAR and need one for my role the company provided me one) and I love it.It has a quad-core CPU (vs the dual-core in the RN526X) and 8GB ECC DDR4 RAM (vs 4GB ECC DDR4 RAM in the RN526X) and has two 1Gb ports in addition to the 2x 10GBASE-T ports (RN526X has just the 2x10GBASE-T ports). I tried using it with Plex and found that it didn't have to break a sweat with a video that my RN516 would have had to work a lot harder on. But then with a newer more powerful CPU generation and double the cores that's to be expected. Any use case which requires a huge amount of CPU resources is going to benefit from getting the RN626X vs the RN526X. We've found that more users than we expected have looked at the RN526X and RN626X and found they want/need the extra performance of the RN626X and that the extra it costs is good value for money. Thanks for the feedback MDGM!

There's a review over at SmallNetBuilder: NETGEAR ReadyNAS RN626X Reviewed

Any 626s in the wild yet? Love it? Hate it? Let us know!

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wiwa
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Oct 24, 2016
Hey Guru! (one of my favorite rappers, next to Nas of course)

While you wait for some more responders, you can check out this Apple Tech Talk review for the 526x.

It's not the 626x, but this review is more indepth than others and the 526x will give you a good idea of its bigger brother.
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Oct 25, 2016
  I've got the RN626X (as I work for NETGEAR and need one for my role the company provided me one) and I love it.
  
  It has a quad-core CPU (vs the dual-core in the RN526X) and 8GB ECC DDR4 RAM (vs 4GB ECC DDR4 RAM in the RN526X) and has two 1Gb ports in addition to the 2x 10GBASE-T ports (RN526X has just the 2x10GBASE-T ports).
  
  I tried using it with Plex and found that it didn't have to break a sweat with a video that my RN516 would have had to work a lot harder on. But then with a newer more powerful CPU generation and double the cores that's to be expected.
  
  Any use case which requires a huge amount of CPU resources is going to benefit from getting the RN626X vs the RN526X.
  
  We've found that more users than we expected have looked at the RN526X and RN626X and found they want/need the extra performance of the RN626X and that the extra it costs is good value for money.
  - NASguru
    Apprentice
    Oct 25, 2016
    mdgm wrote:
    I've got the RN626X (as I work for NETGEAR and need one for my role the company provided me one) and I love it.
    
    It has a quad-core CPU (vs the dual-core in the RN526X) and 8GB ECC DDR4 RAM (vs 4GB ECC DDR4 RAM in the RN526X) and has two 1Gb ports in addition to the 2x 10GBASE-T ports (RN526X has just the 2x10GBASE-T ports).
    
    I tried using it with Plex and found that it didn't have to break a sweat with a video that my RN516 would have had to work a lot harder on. But then with a newer more powerful CPU generation and double the cores that's to be expected.
    
    Any use case which requires a huge amount of CPU resources is going to benefit from getting the RN626X vs the RN526X.
    
    We've found that more users than we expected have looked at the RN526X and RN626X and found they want/need the extra performance of the RN626X and that the extra it costs is good value for money.
    
    Thanks for the feedback MDGM!
- NASguru
  Apprentice
  Oct 25, 2016
  wiwa wrote:
  Hey Guru! (one of my favorite rappers, next to Nas of course)
  While you wait for some more responders, you can check out this Apple Tech Talk review for the 526x.
  It's not the 626x, but this review is more indepth than others and the 526x will give you a good idea of its bigger brother.
  
  Nice find and it certainly gives a bit more insight.