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pi1ot
Mar 30, 2018Aspirant
Photo Cloud?
I bought this ReadyNAS Ultra 2 5 years ago and so far I have only been using it on my LAN as a mounted drive in Windows to archive data. Pretty basic and there is no external access to it. I want...
- Mar 31, 2018
pi1ot wrote:
Is the OS 6 firmware "supported" by Netgear or is this kind of like running something that might result in instability in the future?
Netgear won't support OS 6 running on x86 "legacy" NAS, but lots of folks have done the conversion and almost all seem happy with the results.
StephenB
Mar 30, 2018Guru - Experienced User
You can install OwnCloud (you can get an add-on from rnxtras.com)
Or you can convert your ultra to run OS 6 firmware, and use ReadyCloud.
- pi1otMar 31, 2018Aspirant
Thanks for the advice Stephen!
Is the OS 6 firmware "supported" by Netgear or is this kind of like running something that might result in instability in the future?
- StephenBMar 31, 2018Guru - Experienced User
pi1ot wrote:
Is the OS 6 firmware "supported" by Netgear or is this kind of like running something that might result in instability in the future?
Netgear won't support OS 6 running on x86 "legacy" NAS, but lots of folks have done the conversion and almost all seem happy with the results.
- pi1otMar 31, 2018Aspirant
Thanks Stephen! Glad my 5 year old NAS is still useful for something more than I've been using it for :)
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