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Still no Thunderbolt?
Well CES 2014 is over, but to my knowledge there is no Netgear NAS announcement, and especially no Thunderbolt connected ReadyNAS.
I guess, I will have to ditch my ReadyNAS PRO 6 for a Promise Pegasus2 - at least for main storage. The ReadyNAS can be the backup device.
As a little test, I used BlackMagic Disk Test and got 66MB/sec write speed to the ReadyNAS Pro across the GIG LAN, and 215MB/sec to my LaCie 4TB Big Disk via Thunderbolt 1. FYI the LaCie is running 2x 2TB drives in software RAID 0. The Promise Pegaus2 can deliver up to 1,300MB/sec when filled with SSDs, compare that to the LAN connected ReadyNAS and I think you can see an incentive to change!
It would stand Netgear in good stead to develop a competing product to the Promise range now that the new MacPro is shipping! Unless they no longer want to be a significant storage vendor.
I guess, I will have to ditch my ReadyNAS PRO 6 for a Promise Pegasus2 - at least for main storage. The ReadyNAS can be the backup device.
As a little test, I used BlackMagic Disk Test and got 66MB/sec write speed to the ReadyNAS Pro across the GIG LAN, and 215MB/sec to my LaCie 4TB Big Disk via Thunderbolt 1. FYI the LaCie is running 2x 2TB drives in software RAID 0. The Promise Pegaus2 can deliver up to 1,300MB/sec when filled with SSDs, compare that to the LAN connected ReadyNAS and I think you can see an incentive to change!
It would stand Netgear in good stead to develop a competing product to the Promise range now that the new MacPro is shipping! Unless they no longer want to be a significant storage vendor.
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- There was no NetGear NAS announcement at CES 2014.
However the ReadyNAS 716 does have 10G and was released late last year. - Also, the Pegasus2 and the LaCie are SAN devices (making a local connection with 1 PC), not NAS (which are networked storage devices).
Though you are apparently happy with either, there is a big difference. Personally I have little need for a SAN. - Very true. I am a single person office and am quite happy with high speed SAN - mainly for photographic work. I will back it up to the ReadyNAS, however I feel that Netgear could be a significant player in this area if it introduced X-RAID2 in a Thunderbolt box, as Promise can't do on the fly expansion. Thus Netgear would have an edge, at least for a while :)
Re 10G LAN, I am not aware of any desktop PC or Mac with 10G connection so this might be for server farms perhaps? - You can buy 10G NIC cards for PCs, though they are expensive. OF course the 716 is expensive too...
Though when the 716 has a 10G connection to the switch, in a multiple-user environment the users will see better performance (even though each is limited to 1 gig). This is similar to the NIC bonding in the Pro, though of course it is faster.
I don't know much about the SAN market, so I have no opinion on whether Netgear could compete there. Though it would be nice if the ReadyNAS had a SAN interface (enabling much faster access for one PC, while still allowing full ethernet access). - You can get 3rd party Thunderbolt adapters to do 10G with various different connectors.
- It would need to have a Thunderbolt interface (for my Mac) and then I would also need a 10G switch. Still not too enticing for me, buut maybe for someone else it would be.
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