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RN214 & RN314, which one should be primary and which should be backup?
Hello Community,
I´m a satisfied owner of a Readynas 314 and a 214. Today, the 314 acts primary while being Rsynced at night to the 214 as a backup. Due to increased safety awareness, I will soon be encrypting both units.
Prerequisites:
The primary unit is fileserving 4 users and hosts iSCSI shares for two virtual machines on 3 x WD Gold 6TB disks.
The backup unit will be mirroring files at night through RSync and store video feeds from 7 IP cameras on 4 x WD RED 4TB disks.
Both units will be encrypted.
Question: Which unit should I use as the primary unit? Stick to the 314 or switch to the newer 214?
So far, I´ve been happy with the R314 as the main unit but since I will rebuild the shares, I would like to know the opinion around here in this matter. I know that the 314 is running a 2*2.1 GHz Atom while the 214 has a 4x1.4 GHz ARM and I've failed to find any useful performance comparisions.
Re: RN214 & RN314, which one should be primary and which should be backup?
Smallnetbuilder found the RN214 to be a bit faster, but the RN314 was tested in 2013 with much earlier firmware. So I suspect their results aren't really comparable.
Netgear limits the max iSCSI LUN size to 8 TB on the RN214. Though that limit probably doesn't affect you now, it does suggest that you might want to use the RN314 as the primary NAS.
Due to increased safety awareness, I will soon be encrypting both units.
That will hurt performance.
Personally I don't find disk-encryption on ReadyNAS to be very compelling. You need to keep the USB keys nearby in order to boot the NAS. Personally I am more concerned about network security, and disk encryption doesn't help with that.
Re: RN214 & RN314, which one should be primary and which should be backup?
Smallnetbuilder found the RN214 to be a bit faster, but the RN314 was tested in 2013 with much earlier firmware. So I suspect their results aren't really comparable.
Netgear limits the max iSCSI LUN size to 8 TB on the RN214. Though that limit probably doesn't affect you now, it does suggest that you might want to use the RN314 as the primary NAS.
Due to increased safety awareness, I will soon be encrypting both units.
That will hurt performance.
Personally I don't find disk-encryption on ReadyNAS to be very compelling. You need to keep the USB keys nearby in order to boot the NAS. Personally I am more concerned about network security, and disk encryption doesn't help with that.
