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Netgear RND4450 ReadyNAS NV+ 2 TB Desktop Network Storage (4x500GB) | List Price: $2,349.99
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Brand: Netgear
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 3 years warranty
Features: - Advanced Network Attached Storage device with 2 TB capacity; ideal for small businesses and work groups
- X-RAID technology for automatic data redundancy; supportsindustry standard RAID 0/1/5
- Built-in printer server, iTunes server and streaming media server for DLNA-compliant devices such as NETGEAR EVA8000, Sonos Digital Music System, Logitech Squeezebox,Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 367
- Whisper quiet operations; advanced power controls for energy-efficient use
- Measures a compact 7.9 x 5.2 x 8.7 inches (HxWxD); 5-year warranty
Nice, easy but slow [Posted on 2008-02-14]
The item is pretty easy to use right out of the box, it wasn't too hard to configure for sharing. However, I'm unimpressed with the speed, it just seems slow. The NAS is plugged directly into a gigabit switch port, so I'm a bit surprised and disappointed to notice the speed difference.
has a major software bug [Posted on 2008-03-01]
I own a large number of NetGear (formerly Infrant) NAS devices. After NetGear bought the company, they came out with a new version of the embedded OS of those devices that looks like it is mostly just a cosmetic update that changes the name Infrant to NetGear.
Unfortunately, it also introduces a very serious and reproducible bug for Apple Macintosh users. When you mount one of the NAS boxes running the new version of the OS under AppleShare, a file copied to the NAS box always gets today's date as its creation date. Strangely, if you copy a folder, the folder date is set correctly to the original creation date of the source folder, but the files contained inside of it lose their original creation dates.
This bug occurs ONLY under the new version of the OS (4.00), not under the previous version (3.01). It occurs both under OS X 10.4 and 10.5.
I have spent considerable time on hold and on the phone with NetGear technical support, and they claim this is a problem with the AFS file protocol. I don't know how they can make this claim when quite evidently everything works just fine under the previous version of their own software, but the gentleman on the phone basically told me something to the effect of "nobody uses AFS anyway, so why should we care".
If you are an Apple owner and are considering a NAS box, you may want to hold off on purchasing a NetGear device for the time being. Using Samba file sharing is not really an option either, because that severely limits your file naming possibilities. This is a real error and NetGear needs to fix it.
A piece of junk [Posted on 2008-04-05]
I brought this and 4 500 GB WD drives to backup my system. It hanged twice this morning and a dozen times since I purchased couple month ago. I am not heavy user, only turn it on when I need it, run a day or two continuously. I am usually just copying a lot of small files (20000 files ranging from 20KB to 300MB).
Everytime it hangs, there is no way to shut it down except unplug the power. This will trigger a filesystem check, which take hours. Worst yet, I had one occasion that the fs check stuck and I have to unplug the power again.
At this point, I am just afraid of losing my data. That's the reason I am backing up all my file from the ReadyNAS onto a RAID 1 eSATA local drive using a Rosewill adapter.
If you care about your data, don't use this as backup. It cause me more problem than using USB or local drive.
Great Device Until NetGear Bought The Company [Posted on 2008-04-23]
This device is very functional, great pricing, robust, full of features and add-ons. Maybe not the fastest NAS on the block, but for home use, holding huge amounts of data, and streaming media back to us, was always great. Reasonable web-based interface as well. Right up until NetGear took over and brought out the latest firmware upgrade. Never had a problem before, but this upgrade, which should not touch your data volume, messes with the volume format without warning, irreversibly, and large numbers of people have had problems with their units afterward. Mine won't boot with the new firmware, and if I go back to the old version I can no longer access my data. Essentially turned my NAS into an expensive brick, and tech support is unhelpful as they have no real resolution.
Save yourself some headaches and Do Not Buy. Was a great company, oh well.
Great storage solution [Posted on 2008-04-29]
I have attached this to our home network with an iMac, a PC and a Mac Mini attached to our TV. I use it to store music, photos and video. I got a sony hi def video camera at christmas so I already have an enormous amount of hi def video (imported through imovie). My network is connected with gigabit ethernet using an apple airport. The last NAS I had did not stream the HD video fast enough (using SMB) to the computers or the TV. This NAS works perfectly. I can stream HD video from it through the mini to the tv with no delays or glitches in the sound or video. I got it with 2 500 GB drives and added two 320 drives I had from the old NAS. It works perfectly but unfortunately when you mix different size drives and use the default x-raid setting, it sees all of the drives as the same size as the smallest. So I am not utilizing 180 GB (500-320) from the two 500 GB drives. My total storage capacity is approximaetly 900 GB while the raw capacity is 1,640. I do not yet need even the 900 GB so it isn't that big of a deal. I will just keep my eye open for 2 more 500 GB drives on sale to increase the capacity when needed. All other functions work great. As I mentioned I am in a mac centric network so the AFP file sharing protocol is great - probably why the trasnfer rates are high enough to support HD video.
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