| 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 |
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The Netgear ReadyNAS Duo supports just about any type of computer likely to be found in its native SOHO environment:
- Windows® using SMB (Server Message Block) - aka CIFS (Common Internet File System). Note that OSX and Linux can generally use SMB as well as their own native protocols
- Mac OS 9/X using AFP - Apple Filing Protocol
- OSX, Linux and UNIX using NFS v2 / v3 - Network File System
- Web browsers using HTTP and Secure HTTP (the normal protocols for Web pages)
- FTP clients using FTP and Secure FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- Various clients and other Netgear NAS devices using RSYNC (Remote Sync)
By default, all management is performed using a web browser. While the specifications list protocols like SSH, which allow for command line access to, and management of the ReadyNAS Duo, SSH is not listed in the manual and required a manual download and installation process documented on the community website ReadyNAS.com .
Interestingly the download and installation of the latest ReadyNAS firmware (v4.1.5) and the extra addon modules for SSH revealed the first bug in the Netgear UI - despite the system being configured for Australian Eastern Time (AEST), the date and time in the alert messages and system logs are all in Pacific Daylight Time - roughly 18 hours behind the local time. This would likely confuse a less technical administrator - given the overall quality of the web interface, this bug was quite a surprising find.
Possibly the only truly missing piece of functionality in the ReadyNAS Duo is the ability to join a Windows Domain - this is possible with its big brothers, so was a surprising omission here. While it's uncommon for a home to have a domain, the existence of Windows Small Business Server and Windows Foundation Server are common in tiny and small businesses (under 15 users) and it would have been nice to be able to integrate the ReadyNAS Duo with the domain rather than needing to manually create accounts for each person, and duplicate groups and permissions.
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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