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Disappointment
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Disappointed
I bought a fully outfitted ReadyNAS 214. It surely looked niceand emanated the aura of quality. I installed it in my WLAN and after trying it out for 2 days, I sent it back. It was a very frustrating experience. 1. Terrific problems with my passeword. Sometimes it accepted it, sometimes it didn't. I was very careful when entering it. Sometimes the login window would simply reapper and I was completely at a loss of what was wrong. No hint was given (e.g. Password wrong, wrong user name, etc.). it would simply reappear and prompt me for a new try. After about 30 tries it locked up and denied me access entirely. It said in a message: "Due to security reasons password cannot be restored..." (or some such). So, it completely locked me out of my own data on the four RAID 5 drives. 2. You click into the NAS 214 page and nothings happens. It usually takes 2 minutes to respond. Again, no clue what's going on. Of course you click again, and suddenly the whole window is gone. That is so annoying. Especielly since I have a new and well functioning WLAN. 3. It did the "drag and drop" thing to get files into my NAS 214. After a while (no clue, no progress bar, ...nothing) it started, but suddenly broke off after having copied about a hundred files. There was a message on top with a big red "X" to say "....could not be uploaded". There were still 5 TB space availabe. Repeating this attempt over and over yielded the same outcomes. 4. Somehow I got it to mirror some directories on my C drive (Documents, Pictures, Videos, and a few more). But when I opened these mirrored directories on my NAS 214, they were incomplete. Less than one percent hat arrived. I suspected that it would take long, but after 24 h they were just as incomplete and had not progressed any further. WTF? When I entered a new file on these "mirrored" direcories, they never appeard on my NAS 214. Isn't it the main purpose of a NAS to secure the data? 5. The Netgear UI offers no clues or tips, no explanations, no progress bars, it just goes static. It just assumes you "know". This I can do without.