NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo 2-Bay 1 TB (1 x 1 TB) Desktop Network Attached Storage RND2110 by Netgear
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Digital camera reviews of NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo 2-Bay 1 TB (1 x 1 TB) Desktop Network Attached Storage RND2110
Digital camera Review: Perfect Solution
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this NAS primarily for use as a back-up server for my home office laptop. It installed very easily and the software was simple and intuitive yet gave me nice options for backing up data. As soon as I received it, I checked the hard drive and ordered a matching one. That installed in just a minute or two and automatic mirroring started immediately. It came with a 5900 rpm Seagate Barracuda LP drive, 7200 might have been nicer but with late night back-ups I haven't had any speed issues. I'm very happy with this drive, have recommended it to other people and will probably buy another one soon to act as a music/video/data server for my home computers.Digital camera Review: ReadyNAS Duo first 2 week experience
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this product ReadyNAS Duo with 1 TB disk, about 2 weeks ago. Have not had a chance to call any technical support yet. The overall experience has been good. I have been able to do all the things that I had wished for. Some initial experiences
* The installation and hardware setup was a breeze. I was done in about 15 minutes.
* Doing the initial setup was definitely not a breeze. Took me more than an hour (I consider myself computer savvy). The setup can be made more intuitive and easier. Lot of the concepts that they are using for the setup are general and can be made easy.
* The device is compact (if there was no sound you will not even notice it). The noise is minimal (for a storage device). I am actually impressed by how much functionality has been put in this compact package.
* The device came with a cdrom for software installation. Unfortunately one of my home's laptop is a netbook and does not have a cdrom drive. And I did not find a downloadable version on the net. Had to use my other laptop's cdrom drive through sharing to load the software. Netgear should think about making this user experience better. Netbooks are very popular these days.
* The speed of the backups was ok. For the price that I paid, I am very happy with the speed of transfers.
I have just created backups till now. Will update the review with other experiences (more advanced ones) down the road.
Digital camera Review: ReadyNAS is not so ready
Summary: 1 Stars
I spent over 2 hours trying to setup my Windows 7 machine! Got the NAS worked on XP and 7. But both of my Vista Home machines didn't work. It couldn't even detect the drive. It may be a Vista problem, but Netgear didn't renew firmware to fix the bug either.
Tried their text support on the Vista Home issue. Spent 30 minutes then was told it's a Windows problem and was given a Windows tech support number.
Also tried to hook up with my PS3. Everytime when I tried to stream video, it would skip every few minutes!
This NAS is also very slow. When I accessed video on my 7 and XP machines, the video would load for 2 minutes then start playing. Sometimes doesn't play at all!
the machine. Then decided, why not order a different brand and tried out?!
Got the WD World Book ([...])
Setup was a charm! Works on all machines! PS3 streams great! Haven't tried FTP or remote access yet, but will soon! It is also cheaper and comes with 2TB!
Digital camera Review: Requires constant troubleshooting and advanced computer skills - flaky performance as anything but RAID hard drives
Summary: 2 Stars
Have had the ReadyNAS Duo for over a year.
On the positive side, this performs well as two hard drives configured in RAID that sync with each other automatically.
On the negative side, it has so much potential but it is constantly flaking out for anything but the above purpose (two RAID hard drives) - all this potential leads to massive amounts of time spent only to dead-end at a need for advanced troubleshooting. I'll have something working and then it will reliably stop working reliably. Even something as simple as AFP, worked for a while and now the AFP service constantly has to be restarted in order for the drive to appear in Finder. Other things I have had working on it that have since stopped working and would require major amounts of troubleshooting to fix: ReadyNAS Remote - sometimes I can access it remotely but usually nothing shows up, even when all permissions and everything are as they should be. Itunes server was working for a while then Firefly just started seizing and I would have had to go through all the logs to find out what was wrong, couldn't even readily find the logs, so stopped using it (have a full-time non-computer related job that conflicts with this type of time investment). Squeezebox server worked for about a day but then I realized that it somehow conflicts with the ReadyNAS remote management console, so now can't manage ReadyNAS remote to fix that at all until I get the squeezebox issue resolved. For DLNA it shows up on the PS3 and any other DLNA device but depending on the application, it will just stutter like mad (I suspect that the sparc processor is the minimum one could use to serve video at all, so depending on the application - not the internet connection - it sometimes chokes). I had Time Machine backups running for a while but then they just started hanging... deleting the time machine backup from the ReadyNAS was an insane process. ReadyNAS Photos? What a joke - that has loaded one time and it took days then crashed everything. My USB backups fail half the time for this or that reason. To use ReadyNAS Vault I would have to pay $650/year for 500GB of data, so that's not going to happen... would have liked the USB backup therefore to be more reliable.
So like another reviewer said, if you enjoy staying up with your electronics until 2am, then this is the product for you. If you get thrills troubleshooting in the command line (some of us do not), get the ReadyNAS Duo. I have realized that I need to be asking nothing networking-related of it. This processor is such that the ReadyNAS Duo can't even be a webserver for wordpress unless you have a small non-multimedia site, so forget about it saving you money on hosting or anything like that unless you're a wizard with Apache/Linux and enjoy the command line.
Their support is terrible, they made me pay a bunch of money just to talk to them and then couldn't help me at all when I called about the time machine thing (that is the one thing I've called them about). The Netgear person (outsourced) did not know what time machine WAS. To encounter this, once I'd paid for the support and gotten the privilege to talk with him, was maddening - it is an included service of the machine, not some third-party add-on.
So much frustration at trying to use the features of this thing. So much time down the toilet for nada, except now I can say I've sort of used Linux, yay.
Given that I can get an actual small-footprint computer with a good processor for nearly a grand, I don't know why I'd upgrade to the x86 ReadyNAS. My goals are and have always been central backed up accessible music, photos, and videos. Apple, for all their mental blocks, paranoia, and snootiness, at least understand two fundamental things: that things need to mostly just work for consumers, and that consumers will repeat-buy products - even flawed ones - if the company provides excellent, non-outsourced support.
Digital camera Review: Sent it back
Summary: 1 Stars
I really wanted NAS that was available over my WiFi network. I shopped Amazon for days, reading the reviews. There wasn't one unit I was interested in that had what I would call a slam dunk, so I took a chance on this unit. I have had good luck with other products from this manufacturer.
The unit arrived. I got it hooked up and software installed without a problem. My desk top saw it and was able to address it. I got a couple of shares set up. I copied some documents over to my share. I then wanted to get the new share set up in Mozy (didn't realize I would need a better version of that, but that is another story). Suddenly the desk top no longer had authority to address the share. I rebooted many times, including the entire network several times. I took the unit back to factory a couple of times. Basically spent an entire weekend on it just in case I had done something boneheaded.
Based on the knowledge that other people had troubles, I packed it up and shipped it back to Amazon on the Monday after the weekend. It didn't seem worth it to call tech support based on other comments found here. I had spent enough time with it. Will probably just go with an external hard drive.
As always, Amazon gets 5 stars. Sorry they had to spend money on my poor choice.