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Aspirant

Mar 30, 2018

Solved

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...

StephenB
Mar 30, 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.

Guru - Experienced User

Mar 30, 2018

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.

Aspirant

Mar 30, 2018

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?

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