What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
Netgear nas is the only way you can always access your nas. I love netgear routers and now i respect them even more because compared to the wd nas i use to have this is easier to setup. If hacking your nas doesn't interest you, it also performs very n... Read More
The unit works fine with all external hdd via usb 3. Just wish more hdd were on their hql. I have it configured with with (2) 2tb western digital drives.
Super-easy with win7 and xp to get to the device in network and copy and paste files. You have to access it manually, but it's just straight-forward.
Cons
I could never get the device to appear on my network or on my dhcp client list on my router. There wasn't even a web page for this device on netgear's website.
Software, while somewhat easier to navigate, is a broken, buggy mess. It seems that netgear wrongly packaged and labeled some v1's as v2's.
Netgear is not moving from these add-ons to so-called 'genie apps' the usual netgear official extensions, so far, remain free, such as readynas photos or readynas remote. This device is useless as an nas. There is an issue with non-time capsule networ... Read More
Highlights
Quality
The readynas works great and is easy to setup.
Solid built metal case, server quality drive bays, gigabit nic, netgear's raid2, which allows easy upgrade of raid 1 to larger ... Read More
With the drive i have in it i was coping from raid 0 black drives to the one green in the unit and getting a transfer speed of ... Read More
Competitiveness
Configured as raid 1 with two 2tb wd green drives.
Never a issue with readynas duo v2
I destroyed a 3tb wd drive because i pulled it out as it was formatting.
Not that i mind--i'm never going to fill the first 1tb disk anyway.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Let it do its thing then just copies 600 movies onto it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I destroyed a 3tb wd drive because i pulled it out as it was formatting
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Con software is kinda lame really could use some work there but i was able to get everything done
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Then under the routing section click ip address distribution
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
On the bottom left click add static connection
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Otherwise the router will occasionally change the address and the nas will no longer appear in your explorer windows on the computers in your network
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But netgears wizard code is somehow broken and i have seen many other problems as well when using their wizards
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Below is the procedure i used with all the different sized large hard drives if you want more detail go to httpscommunity
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