Ready Nas DUO & upgrade options..

Hi Ben,

dupavoxe wrote:
last week brought a readyNAS DUO... again feeling a little glum as its not quite the box i needed it to be... (i really should of researched more before buying.. espically as the ultra 2 is only £75 more in terms of buying it driveless..)

Do you think they would let you exchange it for the Ultra? It's really the best option for what you want to do. The x86 platform (Ultra, Pro) has the necessary CPU horsepower to run the required add-ons and there are a number already developed by the ReadyNAS community in addition to the official add-ons.

dupavoxe wrote:
oh one last one... if at a later date i upgrade to a ultra, can i pull a drive out of the duo and just slip it into a ultra an boot?? or will i have to copy the data manually accross to the new box!?

You'll have to copy it across to the new box, as the CPU architecture on the Duo uses a sparc-based CPU and the Ultra uses x86.

dupavoxe wrote:
now what im finding that is really getting me down is i just spent money on a box that cannot serve video files over the internet... (now im not talking transcoding on the fly... im talking it cannot even stream native video content... <---------------i assume my findings are correct there?) am i right in that assumption? there is NO possible way to stream video?

IIRC, you should be able to stream video using HTTP. I'll see if I can locate the thread where this was discussed.