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Any 626s in the wild yet? Love it? Hate it? Let us know!
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...
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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.
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
mdgm wrote:There's a review over at SmallNetBuilder: NETGEAR ReadyNAS RN626X Reviewed
Very nice and page 2 discusses the performance of the 626 compared to the competitiion. It seems you're missing the performance potentional though if you don't have 10G switch/client in place. I may have missed it but were they using jumbo frames on 10G? I know it makes a difference on my local LAN for moving large files across. For now, I'll have to get by with just Gigbit networking which for the most part is adequate at 80-100MB/s read/write throughput.
mdgm-ntgr, are you saying the 626 handles Plex transcoding pretty well?
I've been hoping to start migrating my video library to H.265, which is beyond the transcoding capability of my 314. Seems to me like the 626 would most certainly be up to the task.
Based on past experience, you could probably easily throw another 8GB of RAM in there too just to max it out.
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