Netgear Ready NAS Duo RND2000

[wrack]

I am planning to get one of this for home storage needs. Does anyone has any reviews or experience with this?

Here is the manufacturer link http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/ReadyNASDuo/RND2000.aspx (AUD $300.00 = US $250.00, No disks)

I want to go for QNAP TS 259 Pro but can't spend that much money.

Based on your experience which other products are good in the similar price range? What other brands are reliable and good?

I am looking for RAID1 and basically want to mirror using 2 x 2TB drives to store my data. In future I want to use higher capacity disks, so I can take one drive out, put a 4 TB drive, let it rebuild the array, take the other 2TB out and put another 4TB and let it rebuild the array and then expand.

TA

 

[Mark R]

The RND2000 is a budget NAS and is therefore very slow. It gets about 15-20 MB/S STR.

My personal preference is for the lower-end QNAP units as they have more flexible and extensible firmware. e.g. TS-219

 

[wrack]

Ok I would prefer QNAP as mentioned earlier but QNAP TS-219 is about AUD $600 which is double than my budget!

 

[rootaxs]

Check out the NetDisk 351UNE, it's got better throughput and since it doesn't use TCP/IP it's also much safer to plug it in on the network (switch, hubs won't work).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

 

[Emulex]

man for over $300 i'd expect VAIL on WHS and alot of hotswap cages

 

[Mark R]

The netdisk uses a proprietary network protocol, which can only connect to windows PC which have the driver installed - and drives cannot be shared between multiple comps (you have to unmount from one comp, then mount on another) It's basically a USB, or eSAtA drive, but connected over a LAN cable - it's not a shared drive. In effect, this is exactly what iSCSI does, but iSCSI is an open standard that is included out-of-the-box with all major OSs.

The proprietary software means you can't connect it to things like media streamer boxes, games consoles, etc. At all.

I'd be tempted to stay far away - but you need to consider whether these limitations are crippling for your purposes.

 

[rootaxs]

^ You have some of it correct.

Connected via USB/eSATA, you can only connect one machine at a time. But on Ethernet, there is no one-user limit for connections. There are drivers for Mac, PC and Linux.

 

[Modelworks]

A good summation of what is out there:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_nas/Itemid,190/

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...-Network+-+Storage-_-Synology+Inc.-_-22108041