This is a 2-bay ReadyNAS, with no apparent feature differences from the rest of the line. While I've sold several clients on ReadyNAS boxes with two drives, and they do (usually, though not always) continue to work with a single drive failure, removing a drive and continuing to function is only half (or maybe 1/3) of the battle. Putting the drive back in or replacing it with another one without a power cycle will hang the box or corrupt your data. Also, while the box should boot with the drive you just pulled (and stored offsite for backup purposes), it's not clear how well that works in practice. Hopefully they'll spend some resources getting their firmware up to snuff and spend less time adding (broken) features. Any idea how big the external power brick on the Duo is?
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This is a 2-bay ReadyNAS, with no apparent feature differences from the rest of the line. While I've sold several clients on ReadyNAS boxes with two drives, and they do (usually, though not always) continue to work with a single drive failure, removing a drive and continuing to function is only half (or maybe 1/3) of the battle. Putting the drive back in or replacing it with another one without a power cycle will hang the box or corrupt your data. Also, while the box should boot with the drive you just pulled (and stored offsite for backup purposes), it's not clear how well that works in practice. Hopefully they'll spend some resources getting their firmware up to snuff and spend less time adding (broken) features. Any idea how big the external power brick on the Duo is?