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I recently acquired a ReadyNAS Duo v1 RND2150. I was able to get into the management UI through Win7 and Internet Explorer on an old laptop 😏, update the firmware to the latest-available on the Netgear site, and to set up some shares on a test HDD. It seems to be working fine even though the RAIDar application can't find it on the LAN 😖
I have some questions...
Can this NAS "see" more than 4Tb?
Is there an open-source alternative OS out there to unlock more of its features?
Will it perform better if I upgrade the RAM from 256Mb to 512Mb?
Will it perform better if I upgrade the RAM from 256Mb to 512Mb?
It's a very old hardware design. The CPU is a custom processor designed back in 2005. (It uses the Sparc instruction set and adds some hardware acceleration for RAID).
Increasing the RAM might improve the performance a little bit. However, the performance bottleneck is actually the CPU.
FWIW, The Duo is rather fussy on memory timing. Some folks have found their unit didn't boot when they replaced the stock RAM.
Will it perform better if I upgrade the RAM from 256Mb to 512Mb?
It's a very old hardware design. The CPU is a custom processor designed back in 2005. (It uses the Sparc instruction set and adds some hardware acceleration for RAID).
Increasing the RAM might improve the performance a little bit. However, the performance bottleneck is actually the CPU.
FWIW, The Duo is rather fussy on memory timing. Some folks have found their unit didn't boot when they replaced the stock RAM.
