Easy-to-use and robust storage system | Netgear ReadyNAS Duo 2-Bay 500 GB (1 x 500 GB) Network Attached...

electronics: Netgear ReadyNAS Duo 2-Bay 500 GB (1 x 500 GB) Network Attached Storage RND2150

electronics:


	• Netgear ReadyNAS Duo 2-Bay 500 GB (1 x 500 GB) Network Attached Storage RND2150 Netgear Netgear average customer review:based on 138 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

Great for Keeping Files

So far this has been a great product for what I use it for, which is file storage. One thing that surprised me because I didn't read it too closely, it only comes with ONE Hard drive. Granted it's a 1TB hard drive, but I wanted to mirror that HD in case of failure, and had to purchase another 1TB HD. The other thing that bothers me slightly, and it may be because I can't figure out how to do it otherwise, on some operating systems you need to have the RAIDar software installed to access the system. Noticed this mostly on my vista machine, win7 machine don't have a problem seeing it in my networked folder.

for more information click here

Easy-to-use and robust storage system

Occasionally a technically sophisticated product comes along whose installation and use thrills me for its simplicity. The Netgear ReadyNAS 2110 is one of those. I bought it with 2 additional 1.5TB WDC drives so I could implement a 2-drive RAID + offsite storage strategy for my music and home videos. Although I'm a techie and would've survived any issues that arose, the installation was remarkably simple. I powered it up, plugged it into the Gig-E at home and copied over the data from my iMac. Then I hot-swapped in one of the 1.5TB drives. About 8 hrs later, it was fully synchronized. I did a diff to verify the mirrored drive. Then hot-swapped in the other 1.5TB drive. Again 8 hrs later, it was done and the diff verified it. Off-site went the original drive and I've got an almost bullet-proof system.

Of course the drive works just fine with my Windows as well as Mac systems for all apps.

There are only two weaknesses (perhaps since I haven't RTFM):
1. Can't find any way to encrypt the on-disk data. I'd like to do that just in case a burglar steals the device.
2. The speed of the RAID sync (8hrs) seems too slow but perhaps it's the norm for this class of device. Not sure.

for more information click here

Netgear Readynas Duo 1X 500Gb