| 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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Page 5 of 6
Now that I've seen what the ReadyNAS Duo is capable of, I can safely say where it is best suited.
| Market Segment | Number of Users |
Rating In This Segment |
Comments on the Rating |
| Home Theatre |
1-5 |
7/10 |
The Netgear ReadyNAS Duo is certainly simple, quiet and draws very little power (about 1/8th of an ordinary desktop computer). The LEDs are mostly unobtrusive (although the power LED is quite bright). RAID 1 is probably a good choice for a home theatre environment - no-one wants to reconvert all their movies from DVD if a disk fails, and streaming movies is less taxing than the loads this NAS can handle. Performance might be a problem if you wanted to stream more than one or two movies at a time (to different screens for example). |
| Home and SOHO Networks | 1-5 |
7/10 |
As a small file storage device the ReadyNAS is reasonably well suited to a role in a SOHO network. While the raw performance numbers might indicate that the ReadyNAS is slow, saving a 3MB Microsoft Word document to the NAS will take around 2 seconds, which is well under the threshold of annoyance for most people. I'd go so far as to say the ReadyNAS is better suited to the SOHO fileserver role than the Home Theatre server role, if it weren't for the limited expansion capability. One great advantage though is that the drives in the Duo can be removed and used in a larger ReadyNAS with no formatting or copying of data required - which is great if you run out of space and need to upgrade to the NV+ or Pro. |
| Small Business |
6-20 |
3/10 |
Performance with larger numbers of users is definitely a problem with the ReadyNAS Duo, and while easy to manage the ReadyNAS Duo just runs out of puff. The performance is not good enough for more than three or four simultaneous users and with only 2 disks, and only RAID 1, the Duo is left behind on the capacity front as well. Other contenders such as the Intel SS4200 have significantly better performance at a similar price point to the ReadyNAS Duo. |
| Medium Business |
21-50 |
1/10 |
As a NAS for the Medium Business segment, the ReadyNAS Duo is just not suitable. It misses the mark in too many ways - integration with Active Directory, expansion capability, security, performance ... it's not the right NAS for this segment. Check out the Intel SS4200, the Buffalo TeraStation, Thecus NAS or the other ReadyNAS models instead. |
Comments (3)
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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.
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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