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| Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ Review |
| Functionality |
| The Out Of Box Experience |
| Performance |
| Is the ReadyNAS NV+ For Me? |
| Conclusion and Thoughts |
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The Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ is a popular NAS with a vibrant and enthusiastic user community. Unfortunately it is let down by the customised CPU which fails to deliver performance in line with the hard disks inside the box.
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 models is very, very cool, but for such an expensive NAS, performance really is below par.
As an example, the ReadyNAS NV+ without any hard disks is about $1072 at TechBuy.
Alternatives like the Intel SS4200 and QNAP TS-409 Pro are competitors to the ReadyNAS NV+. The Intel unit is cheaper than the Netgear and did exceptionally well in our tests, but lost out on some core business functionality (Active Directory membership limitations) and has no community of users yet. The QNAP unit is also cheaper than the ReadyNAS, yet includes full web server and database server capabilities.
The Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ is available from TechBuy in a range of configurations.
