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pi1ot
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Mar 30, 2018
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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...
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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    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.

pi1ot's avatar
pi1ot
Aspirant
Mar 31, 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?

StephenB's avatar
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
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.

  • pi1ot's avatar
    pi1ot
    Aspirant
    Mar 31, 2018

    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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