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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 promised much, but underdelivered when it counted. The slick Web Admin interface and flexibility (supporting all the major PC and server operating systems) are great, being able to use the same disks and trays in the more expensive ReadyNAS modelsis very, very cool, but for such an expensive NAS, performance was below par.
As an example, the ReadyNAS Duo with a single 500GB disk is around $589 at TechBuy. The Intel SS4200 I reviewed a few weeks ago is about $20 less, without any disks. But the SS4200 is up to 20 times faster than the ReadyNAS and takes two more disks, for a total of 6TB instead of the current 2TB in the Duo.
Alternatives like the LaCie "2big" and iOmega StorCenter are also competitors. The LaCie unit is about $80 cheaper than the Netgear; yet it comes with two 500GB disks and similar specifications (Gigabit networking, multiple protocols and USB expansion). The iOmega unit is the same price as the ReadyNAS, but again it comes with both 500GB disks pre-populated.
The Netgear ReadyNAS Duo is available from TechBuy:
- With a single 500GB Drive: The RND2150
- With a single 750GB Drive: The RND2175
- With a single 1000GB Drive: The RND2110
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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