- 1.6GHZ Marvell processor
- Diskless
- 2 x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0
- RAID 0, 1, 5
- ReadyNAS Photos II application
- 3 year warranty
Wow what a deal
03/02/2012
This review is from: NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+ v2 4-bay (diskless) w/ 3 yr warranty (RND4000-200NAS)
Pros:
This is my first dive into a ReadyNas device. I have had several network drives, and used a pc for network shares;however I found both with issues. The network drives I have used in the past are slow, limited and fw updates for new features are slim to none. As far as the pc goes, you always have spyware/virus issues to think about and the pc uses much more power. With the nv+ v2, I have populated it with 4x3tb drives to total a redundant 8.3tb partition. It spins down when not in use, runs very quiet and cool and network speeds are more than acceptable (20 to 60 mb/s typically)I can stream a movie to my wife's laptop, stream one on the ps3, and stream one to my epic 4g and it is all smooth. This is with ip cams running on the wifi as well. VERY impressed with the multiple user access and speed of this box.
Cons:
When you log into the http interface, you get a security certificate warning, the pages have a lot of lag when switching fields, the system reads everything in celcius instead of faranheit for temps (you can hover the mouse over the drive in the radar soft to see it in faranheit, but hope they add this option in the future). The firmware seems very immature for this product, however Netgear forums are very active and seem to be very helpful with questions. I have had disk full errors happening when copying files, I have found if I manually surf to the file location and click retry it continues. Due to the buggy code on this thing I knocked an egg off, but have heard FTP support is coming in the next firmware release. 1 gb ram should have been standard with this unit, but so far no issues with that.
Overall Review:
I highly recommend thoroughly testing any drives used in this thing. All my drives are on the compatibility list(wd30ezrx), one was an OEM and one was a retail drive to start out with. The OEM drive initialized, I added the second drive to create the raid, and the mirror failed initialization. This corrupted the drives, removing the bad one still would not boot the device. I removed both drives, tested and verified the bad one(oem). I had to put the good drive on a pc and blank the drive, then reinstall and let it reformat itself to work. After I replaced the bad drive,I had a mirror of 2.7tb. I added the other 2 drives one at a time. It took a few days to create an 8.3tb partition, other than weird copy issues so far so good. I feel good about my purchase, will add a ups on the approved list one day soon.
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- Tyler H.
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