Firmware Downloads

FYI here's a little script that downloads all available firmware versions starting with v6.0.0. It'll be good to keep them on hand for the day that they go away online.

Unfortunately, however, some of the early incremental versions are no longer published, making updating for some impossible, depending on their device and what OS version they're running.

For example, from the ReadMe for v6.5.2-arm:

ReadyNAS 102, 104, and 2120 must not be updated directly from 6.3.0 - 6.3.4 to 6.5.2.  They must first be updated to 6.3.5.

There is no download available for v6.3.5, so a 102 user on OS v6.3.4 is stuck. That is, unless someone knows of a different (official/reliable) repository. If you do, let me know and I'll update the script.

This starts at v6.0.0 and proceeds through v6.10.10, downloading both arm and x86_64 architectures to separate folders. It counts 0-19 for the minor.build numbers, just to be safe. That ought to cover just about everything.

The only thing you should need to adjust is the base target folder for your downloads. Let me know if you run into problems.

So, without further ado:

# ______________________________________________________________
#
#   A script to download ReadyNAS firmware updates
# ______________________________________________________________
#

# Define path/folder pairs as tuples
$Pairs = @(
  @{ Path = "100"; Arch = "arm" },
  @{ Path = "300"; Arch = "x86_64" }
)

foreach ($Pair in $Pairs) {
  $Path = $Pair.Path
  $Arch = $Pair.Arch

  $BaseUrl = "https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-$Path"
  $OutDir = "S:\Setup\SysAdmin\ReadyNAS\Firmware\$Arch"

  # Ensure the output directory exists
  New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $OutDir | Out-Null

  # Initialize a stop flag for the max version number
  $lStop = $false

  # Enumerate minor and build versions
  for ($Minor = 0; $Minor -lt 20; $Minor++) {
    for ($Build = 0; $Build -lt 20; $Build++) {
      $Version = "6.$Minor.$Build"

      if ($Version -eq "6.10.11") {
        $lStop = $true
        break
      }

      $FileName = "ReadyNASOS-$Version-$Arch.zip"
      $OutFile = Join-Path $OutDir $FileName
      $Url = "$BaseUrl/$FileName"

      if (Test-Path $OutFile) {
        Write-Host "Skipping $FileName (already exists)"
      }
      else {
        Write-Host "Checking $Url"

        $Response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Url -Method Head -ErrorAction Stop

        if ($Response.StatusCode -eq 200) {
          Write-Host "  Found → downloading..."
          Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Url -OutFile $OutFile -UseBasicParsing
          Write-Host "  Saved to $OutFile"
        }
      }
    }

    if ($lStop) {
      break
    }
  }
}