| Article Index |
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| Netgear ReadyNAS Duo Review |
| Functionality |
| The Out Of Box Experience |
| Performance |
| Is the ReadyNAS Duo For Me? |
| Conclusion and Thoughts |
| All Pages |
Today the victim of our ministrations is the Netgear ReadyNAS Duo. The 2 disk ReadyNAS Duo is the smallest in the three device ReadyNAS family - which also includes the 4 disk ReadyNAS NV+ and the 6 disk ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition.
Netgear describe the Duo as "A NAS (Network Attached Storage) Device for the Home":
- Provides extra storage that can be conveniently shared with all your computers
- Access stored content anywhere via the Internet
- Optional “spare” hard drive protects against drive failure by making a duplicate copy of all your data
- Supports most network music, picture and video players
- Embedded BitTorrent™ client for direct downloading from the Internet
- ReadyNAS Vault™
- Integrated offsite backup for files and folders
- Mac-friendly
The Netgear specifications are quite comprehensive; rather than repeat them all here are the critical specifications:
- 2 Serial ATA channels
- Compatible with SATA and SATA II HDD
- Hot-swappable trays
- 10/100/1000 Ethernet
- 3 USB 2.0 ports
- 256 MB PC2700 DDR-SDRAM SO-DIMM
- Embedded 64 MB flash memory for OS
- Supports Windows, Mac, Linux/UNIX Clients
- Setup wizard and easy browser-based interface
- NETGEAR Auto-Expandable X-RAID™
There is no specification on the type of CPU, so it's likely an APIC or similar embedded CPU (the architecture is labelled Padre with the model IT3107). These types of CPUs often struggle to perform under heavy mixed loads as they are optimised for specific tasks. The use of a DDR SO-DIMM may offer us a chance to upgrade the memory and get better performance.
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|80.3.187.xxx |2009-05-04 21:20:05 tokaboy - Readynas Duo performance figuresYoure performance tests are wrong pal.
No other eeview in the world complained about the Duuo's perfomance and it regularly sits in the top section of testing charts.
SmallNetBuilder mentioned "excellent performance" in their review.....
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30462/75/
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|150.101.192.xxx |2009-05-14 22:37:13 David Rawling - AuthorThanks for taking the time to comment.
The graphs provided by SmallNetBuilder on page 7 of their review show almost identical performance to our tests - over 1000 Mbps Ethernet, the Duo topped out at 30 MBps reads and 15 MBps writes on both reviews, and I think this shows consistent results.
We focus on repeatable results - we use the same tests with the same data sets on multiple devices (servers, virtual machines, other NAS and even PCs) and the results are repeatable and consistent, and we publish the highest results we achieve.
Happy to discuss by email - djr (AT) pdconsec.net.
Dave.
Unfortunately, with no disks on board the system does not initialise/get an IP address as per the documentation.
After a 56 min call to support (lucky it was 1-300 as it was diverted to the US over our weekend), eventually got tech's advice to load a disk. Once disk on board, it booted up OK