Anyone got 6.2 on their legacy RN yet?

Yes, they do. See http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=161&t=77780

You could install the 6.1.x image from the other thread then after the necessary factory default (either triggered as a result of installing the Prep add-on before the firmware update or manually via the boot menu) use the Dashboard to upgrade to 6.2.0.

If you prefer you could use this one to go direct to 6.2.0 beta.

Cool thanks! Gotta try this out next week after I get all my files moved out. Hopefully it fixes all my issues that I have with 4.2

I wonder if Netgear has any plans to officially catch up 4.2.x boxes to a 6.x release. Seems a weird fork that happened with Intel based hardware... and clearly it is both possible and desirable to do this, or we wouldn't see so many in the community continuing to try and make it happen...

It boils down to money. Most enterprise won't want to mess with a hack job but rather get one that work. If you want the latest and greatest features you have to upgrade your hardware mentality.

If they keep on making the old better, who's gonna wanna buy new hardware? LOL

Btaroli
***I wonder if Netgear has any plans to officially catch up 4.2.x boxes to a 6.x release.***
No, Netgear is in business to make money, and want you to buy an OS6 unit, rather than modify an OS4.
Services like Replicate would not work on a converted NAS. Tech support is denied.

Regards, Marto

Marto73 wrote:
Btaroli ***I wonder if Netgear has any plans to officially catch up 4.2.x boxes to a 6.x release.*** No, Netgear is in business to make money, and want you to buy an OS6 unit, rather than modify an OS4. Services like Replicate would not work on a converted NAS. Tech support is denied. Regards, Marto

I think you just said what I said in a different way. :rofl:

If I may add, maybe that's why Synology got so popular so fast and even their legacy devices hold value like crazy.

I hear Synology drop support for old models as well, despite some of them being much more powerful than many supported models and clearly powerful enough to run it.



Not sure how long the competition does bug fix and security updates, but the latest Sparc releases still run on the first ReadyNAS units we shipped. So the upcoming 4.1.14 firmware update (bug fix and security updates) will run on devices from 2004.

The ReadyNAS Pro, the first 4.2.x device released in 2008 will still get the 4.2.27 update etc. 4.2.27 does include an update from samba 3.5.x to 3.6.x

I have a dj212j that's still getting update. :)

I'm not sure it would be a winning case but you could make a case that supporting the new OS on old(er) hardware might actually increase sells. How? By increasing the resell value of the older devices more people would be willing to upgrade as the upgrade cost would be less. That's more related to the consumer market and as far as corporate having the ability to use the same OS on new acquisitions as their existing devices has to be considered an asset.

Since they were forced to move to an new OS how many corporations took a fresh look at the market versus simply purchasing the newer model. If they could upgrade their existing devices to the new OS it could sneak in via the back door and not have the "fear" factor of starting over with a new OS. Which again I'm sure caused them to take a fresh look at the market.

Much like corporations supporting multiple versions of Windows. In most cases they will do whatever they can to avoid it and if forced to upgrade you are opening up a can worms and you better hope you can once again come out ahead.

CharlesR wrote:

I'm not sure it would be a winning case but you could make a case that supporting the new OS on old(er) hardware might actually increase sells. How? By increasing the resell value of the older devices more people would be willing to upgrade as the upgrade cost would be less. That's more related to the consumer market and as far as corporate having the ability to use the same OS on new acquisitions as their existing devices has to be considered an asset. Since they were forced to move to an new OS how many corporations took a fresh look at the market versus simply purchasing the newer model. If they could upgrade their existing devices to the new OS it could sneak in via the back door and not have the "fear" factor of starting over with a new OS. Which again I'm sure caused them to take a fresh look at the market. Much like corporations supporting multiple versions of Windows. In most cases they will do whatever they can to avoid it and if forced to upgrade you are opening up a can worms and you better hope you can once again come out ahead.

At this point, it really doesn't matter if NG will officially support OS6 on legacy RN as long as there's a way. We were just having a discussion.

Out of all fairness to NG, I also want to point out that as MDGM mentioned, Synology also discontinue updating older products and I've confirmed it. Just so that if anyone lurking the forum to decide, this thread does not give them false info and go buy a Synology. But I do have to say that NG interface isn't trouble free as Synology. :) It's more for geek vs DSM is very simplified.