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Is ReadyNAS leaving the small business market?
Hello, I was in the market for a new 4 bay NAS to replace my ReadyNAS NVX. This NAS has served me well and if it wouldn't for the lack of software upgrades I would still use. It is very well made...
I bought a QNAP TS-453 NAS this weekend. The QNAP is definatly a lot faster but that is too expected from a product that is 10 years younger. Build quality wize, the ReadyNAS is in a different leaugue. That is one of the reasons why ReadyNAS was my first choise.
But anyway, can't look back now. The QNAP does do everything I need it to do.
My NVX is now entering a new phase in its life: it is my new backup device. Every night it will boot up and the QNAP will then dump its backup onto the ReadyNAS.
delange wrote:
My NVX is now entering a new phase in its life: it is my new backup device. Every night it will boot up and the QNAP will then dump its backup onto the ReadyNAS.
I use my older NAS similarly. You might want to run the backup on the NVX - that avoids any glitches if the ReadyNAS takes longer to boot than expected. Also the NVX will postpone its shutdown if a backup job is running on it. Of course it can't do that if the QNAP is running the backup script.
FWIW, some legacy ReadyNAS can be converted to run OS-6 firmware. But the NVX isn't one if those.
Thank you for the tips Stephen. I have a time windows of 10 minutes for the NVX to boot up before the QNAP's schedule kicks in. But I'll look into your suggestions.
Yeah, I have looked at upgrading my NVX to OS6 but indeed that isn't supported.
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