NETGEAR kicks loose Six-Bay SMB NASes

corndog · #1 10-13-2008, 10:51 PM

Oooh!

I finally decide to get the QNAP 509 and Netgear brings out this! I'm more interested in where this ReadyNAS Pro shows up on the NAS chart than any other NAS that has come out in ages.

After having tried quite a few NASes, I always get back to my "old faithful" ReadyNAS1100 - it's a bit slow by today's standards, but the interface works - always. It stays running for months at a time without problems. It has a PILE of capabilities, and they ALL work without problems.

The QNAP is close, but there are definite quirks. If I put a bunch of files on it using rsync and then try to access them via SMB, they're all (for some reason) tagged "System" and "Hidden". If I leave it running for a week, the web admin and ssh interfaces become inaccessible. I have to shut it down and restart it using the power button on the front panel. Sometimes files get duplicated via SMB because it mysteriously becomes case sensitive. My ReadyNAS never has these problems.

iwod · #2 10-14-2008, 01:32 AM

I am interested in this too.
I hope Smallnetbuilder could get to test this one out asap

#3 10-14-2008, 07:40 AM

Waiting with bated breath to see a comparison of this to the new Thecus 7 drive unit... I was surprised to see iSCSI support in the Netgear.

thiggins · #4 10-14-2008, 10:07 AM

Corndog: Interested, even at ~$2000?

#5 10-14-2008, 11:31 AM

$1700 is more like it for the 1.5tb version (including a 4th 500gb drive in an usb-enclosure).

see eaegis.com for more details.

thiggins · #6 10-14-2008, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unregistered

$1700 is more like it for the 1.5tb version (including a 4th 500gb drive in an usb-enclosure).

That's still a hefty hunk of change for home use.

Dennis Wood · #7 10-14-2008, 11:53 AM

For $2000 you can build one heck of a fast box with an 8 channel RAID controller, 4 port gigabit LAN, 7 drives ....

corndog · #8 10-14-2008, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thiggins

Corndog: Interested, even at ~$2000?

I have to admit that's a little steep for home. However, I also make lots of recommendations for a large number of small to medium businesses, and $2000 is not so bad for them...

My QNAP was the better part of $1000 and on top of that with 5 1TB drives, it was similar in price anyways...

thiggins · #9 10-14-2008, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corndog

I have to admit that's a little steep for home. However, I also make lots of recommendations for a large number of small to medium businesses, and $2000 is not so bad for them...

I agree for business use. The Infrant/NETGEAR feature set has always been the best and most stable. Even puts products like Iomega's "business" stuff to shame.

They have been held back in performance, however, by sticking with the old Infrant processor. Looks like they finally broke out of that. With the Intel CPU, we should see performance similar or better than the TS509 Pro and other Intel M powered NASes....I hope!

Review unit should be on the way soon.

OLBJAN · #10 10-14-2008, 02:32 PM

I've had the ReadyNAS PRO for the last 3 months now and it's been an amazing piece of kit so far. Probably won't hit the 100MB/s mark using iozone (at least I didn't manage to hit that...) but I've seen my unit sustain 100+MB/s with parallel sequential reads for a few hours.

Stability also has not been an issue yet, Netgear really did a good job of putting these things together.

-Jan