I bought my ReadyNAS NV+ when it was Infrant and I now need both speed and capacity upgrade, but I want it to continue to be as reliable. As I always do, I like to look at the state of the art before purchasing but have loved my NV+.
However, I find that the big review sites such as Toms Hardware and CNET have little or no real information on speed or other benchmark data related to anything ReadyNAS related (see http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/netw ... ,1907.html).
I find this very frustrating!! Why doesn't NetGear throw their hat into the ring with these sites? Are they masking something?
QNAP, Synology and Thecus seem to be on top of most benchmark tests, but I don't know about reliability and longevity or usability. I want to make sure my next NAS will continue working like my NV+ has for the next 6+ years and prefer real data in lieu of "gut feel".
Many of the reviews I do find are NV+ or Duo and not much with the Ultra 6 Plus or even the bigger rack-mount devices.
Anyone know of current information/benchmarks/comparisons in both benchmarks as well as reliability and usability with the larger ReadyNAS products?
I have a Dell PowerConnect 2748 48 port web managed switch that I can use to team the NIC's and supports Jumbo Frames and VLAN's/segmenting. It also has the expansion ports to allow 10Gbe or fiber uplinks but I don't have any modules for those yet as none of my devices support 10Gbe yet.
I am storing my DVD and BluRay collection, Music, my home movies/photos. My wife is doing photography with her Canon EOS T4i (RAW files are fairly large) and lots of scrapbooking with Photoshop and making slideshow movies/DVD's for friends special occasions. I also need more space to store backups for the 6 computers at home although my NV+ could probably be used for that.
I want to be able to support streaming 4 or 5 concurrent HD streams directly (Boxee, NetGear EVA8000, XBMC) via SageTV or PLEX server.
I'm also a software developer and running a source repository (git or svn) is also something I do.
The obvious things I'm trying to compare include:
warranty
expansion bays
cost
performance
Netgear wins hands down on the warranty. But expansion is a solid win on the Synology side. In terms of cost, it is a toss-up with Synology slightly favored due to the 8 disk version being close in price to the 6 disk ReadyNAS.
For the desktop NAS units, the real tie breaker may be performance, but I can't find a lot about ReadyNAS in this regard. Most semi-current reviews are of the Duo or Ultra 4.
Additionally I do have a server cabinet at home and would really like a rack-mount unit, but the costs are crazy high compared to the desktop versions (is there really that much more hardware cost in them?) From an expansion perspective, the ReadyNAS 3200 would win me over if I could afford it (solve the expansion conundrum) but a diskless version doesn't seem to be available.
Not sure if that helps but performance benchmarks with a baseline config streaming, writing large files (DVD/BluRay) would be good.
Most of the review sites (CNET, TomsHardware, SmallNetBuilder) seem to be fairly consistent in how they control benchmarking and also outlining the differences in config/setup/disk layout so I don't know why NetGear isn't giving demo units out more for evaluation.
Also worth noting on many of the rackmount units the fans run at full speed all the time. They are intended to be placed in a server room not anywhere near to where you intend to spend much time
I bought my ReadyNAS NV+ when it was Infrant and I now need both speed and capacity upgrade, but I want it to continue to be as reliable. As I always do, I like to look at the state of the art before purchasing but have loved my NV+.
However, I find that the big review sites such as Toms Hardware and CNET have little or no real information on speed or other benchmark data related to anything ReadyNAS related (see http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/netw ... ,1907.html).
I find this very frustrating!! Why doesn't NetGear throw their hat into the ring with these sites? Are they masking something?
QNAP, Synology and Thecus seem to be on top of most benchmark tests, but I don't know about reliability and longevity or usability. I want to make sure my next NAS will continue working like my NV+ has for the next 6+ years and prefer real data in lieu of "gut feel".
Many of the reviews I do find are NV+ or Duo and not much with the Ultra 6 Plus or even the bigger rack-mount devices.
Anyone know of current information/benchmarks/comparisons in both benchmarks as well as reliability and usability with the larger ReadyNAS products?
