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How does bitrot protection actually work?
I understand the concept, but am curious how it is actually implemented on 6.2.0
Fragmentation doesn't happen more on slower platforms, but defrag time of course is longer. I think all OS6 users need to be thoughtful about CoW. If there's a way to report share-by-share fragmentation (and maybe even have a fragmentation alert) in OS6, that would be a good thing.
Generally speaking, on the lower end NAS you do need to trade off performance against features. That's the "cost" of getting the less expensive platform.
But there are lots of scenarios where this is acceptable for home users. If you are using WiFi, powerline, or fast ethernet then you are usually network bound anyway, so the performance hit isn't something you'll experience. And speed isn't the only consideration. Based on posts here, I'd personally avoid RAID-6 and SCSI LUNs on the RN100 series. But I see no reason to avoid the other features, as long as people understand that performance will drop if you turn on too much stuff.
Netgear already recommends RN300 or better for business users, which makes perfect sense to me. Some business can probably get by with less, but slower performance does translate into $$$ for most businesses.
Generally speaking, on the lower end NAS you do need to trade off performance against features. That's the "cost" of getting the less expensive platform.
But there are lots of scenarios where this is acceptable for home users. If you are using WiFi, powerline, or fast ethernet then you are usually network bound anyway, so the performance hit isn't something you'll experience. And speed isn't the only consideration. Based on posts here, I'd personally avoid RAID-6 and SCSI LUNs on the RN100 series. But I see no reason to avoid the other features, as long as people understand that performance will drop if you turn on too much stuff.
Netgear already recommends RN300 or better for business users, which makes perfect sense to me. Some business can probably get by with less, but slower performance does translate into $$$ for most businesses.
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