Netgear is beefing up its NAS options with the new
ReadyNAS Duo Gigabit lineup, featuring dual SATA drives and shipping in 500GB (RND2150), 750GB (RND2175) and 1TB (RND2110) capacities. In addition to traditional NAS duties and gigabit Ethernet connections, the drives can automatically pull images off of your camera when you plug it in via USB, and the drives include built-in support for BitTorrent as well. Netgear has adopted some of Apple's networking technology, Bonjour and AFP, to make it easier to monitor and access the drives, but the Duos still operate just as well with Windows machines. Netgear is also launching the ReadyNAS Duo 2-Bay Gigabit, which packs in more traditional server features like HTTP/S remote access, FTP, SSL and ACL security, an iTunes server, UPnP AV and Logitech Squeezecenter. The dual SATA drive bays are hot-swappable and can be managed with hardware accelerated X-RAID. No word on price, but most of these drives should be out in Q1 2008.
posted Jan 6th 2008 1:42PM
The time has come for affordable, standards based Home NAS. So Netgear! Can we have one of the above boxes but with no drives in it for what? $100?
Good luck with that! I would bite at $200 sans drives but I don't think they're going to price it that low just yet.
"The NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo is backed by a three-year hardware warranty and will be available in late Q1 2008 via leading retailers, direct marketers, e-commerce sites and value added resellers, at a retail price in the U.S. starting at $499 including one five hundred GBdrive."
Paying $500 for a 2-bay NAS? That's outrageous. Just search for it and you'll probably come up with a bunch with the same features for under $300.
Or just take that $500 and buy a 4-drive Drobo, except that Drobos don't have gigabit ethernet (or any ethernet)!
Looks nice but I would choose QNAP TS-209 Pro NAS.
Doesn't have native SqueezeCenter support.
Ahhhh, looks like the same features and the same look as their Readynas NV+ with two drive bays cut off. I have had one of these 4 bay units for over a year. They work great but are a bit underpowered. The web interface is painfully slow. Hope this update and dropping of two bays helps with processor performance.
Gosh! What an UGLY BOX!!!