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Just got a 102... Stick with it?
Hello Everybody! I've been in the market for a NAS for awhile, and in the end the choice came down to either a Netgear 102, or a Zyxel NSA325. I went for the Netgear, not just because of the per...
Hi, just my 2 cents, the RN102 and RN104 are nicely built from a hardware perspective; the software is still very new but improving step by step...
If that is fast enough for your taste is up to you :-)
About streaming apps, you have to consider that in this price range you should not expect full transcoding apps to work, the ARM processors are simply not powerful enough for this, be it Netgear or Zyxel or others... (I'm not sure about the Atom base NAS devices, they probably can transcode 'basic' stuff, but I seriously doubt if they are fast enough to transcode 1080p material...)
I stream my media to a PC or dedicated streaming device, using my RN104 purely as file server, this works brilliantly, plenty of speed to view true blu-ray movies of 40 GB!
Overall I'm really pleased with the RN104, some rough edges, but hopefully that will improve over time...
(Disk spin down is supposed to become available in 6.2.0 is the most important for me).
About apps, QNAP and Synology seem to have a gazillion of them, but I don't see the use of most of them...
Downgrading to older Radiator versions is not possible btw...
Hope this helps!
If that is fast enough for your taste is up to you :-)
About streaming apps, you have to consider that in this price range you should not expect full transcoding apps to work, the ARM processors are simply not powerful enough for this, be it Netgear or Zyxel or others... (I'm not sure about the Atom base NAS devices, they probably can transcode 'basic' stuff, but I seriously doubt if they are fast enough to transcode 1080p material...)
I stream my media to a PC or dedicated streaming device, using my RN104 purely as file server, this works brilliantly, plenty of speed to view true blu-ray movies of 40 GB!
Overall I'm really pleased with the RN104, some rough edges, but hopefully that will improve over time...
(Disk spin down is supposed to become available in 6.2.0 is the most important for me).
About apps, QNAP and Synology seem to have a gazillion of them, but I don't see the use of most of them...
Downgrading to older Radiator versions is not possible btw...
Hope this helps!
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