Thought it was a pretty good price!
Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ 4-Bay Gigabit Desktop NAS Diskless
Robust Features Coupled with Easy Management
Serves files easily
Backs up data effortlessly
Streams music and video quickly
Shares printers with ease
Works with Windows®, Mac®, and Linux®
4 Hot Swappable HDD in a small 8 inch high desktop design
X-RAID™ technology plus RAID 0, 1, 5
Isn't the other post about a Monitor Sale ???
Yes it is, and its from same vendor. They have another 30 specials, how bout we list those and make it HT day ?
Ohh I did not see the other post. Sorry.
No worries :)
Can this do ftp and torrent?
I have one of these and am quite happy with it. The only limitation that I've found is it doesn't support the new 3TB drives.
probably just have to wait for a driver upgrade…
These will most likely never support 3TB drives. NV and the NV+ are based on a SPARC architecture and it is unlikely that GPT support will ever be added to the SPARC distributions these are using.
The newer ones are based on x86 linux and can already use 3TB drives.
It's one reason they are being cleared out. Having said that, I've had an NV for 5 years and it has been a fantastically solid unit. 4 x 2TB still gives you lots of capacity for a rock bottom price.
Glad I read that before pulling the trigger!
3TB at $200 each.
OUCH!
just wait a few months then… they're still new…
hmmm I'd be weary of the 3tb drives in a nas like all of these. (ie under 1k with limited fans)
we are tesing a bunch of 3tb's at work - VERY VERY VERY HOT and thats in Aircon & limited working on them so far
What is the transfer rate like on it. Enough for multiple HD movies?
I'd like to know too, this looks like a great deal
http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=193#Performance
Performance isn't exactly out-of-this-world, but it's not crap either..
yeah, I'd like to know what kind of speeds this can do too.
@asa79 - I've got this one and the Buffalo linkstation from HT ($248 - the buffalo I think)
Hmm hard call…
The Netgear is a better build, easer to use - the buffalo needs a transfer type layer before it can be seen in "network neighbourhood"
BUT
The buffalo IS faster….nowhere near the 71meg/s it says - but around 10-15meg/s faster then the netgear (around 20-25meg/s) - all running through my netgear 10/100/1000 router.
Thanks for neutralising my buying impulse, 20-25 is even slower than USB 2.0.
No props @nfr!!
They are still ok, but depends on what you(others) need.
It is fun transfering around 3-4tb at a time thoug!
@stumo below noting the HP mini servers could be interesting and transfer speeds…and cheaper too.
How does this compare to the Netgear Ultra Plus as a media server? Was looking at an Ultra Plus 4 or 6 for doing this.
Awesome just grabbed myself one.
What was the original price?
Cheapest on staticice (with the model RND4000-100AJS) is $367.
Lol you bought one then asked what the rrp is? Nice!
what about the warranty and shipping?
What about power consumption? anyone know?
See above answer to @asa79 - but add this
Both have shutdown/spindown type options + timed full shutdown/startup options for power saving.
Actual cost??? never tested…but better then a full other computer I think (Since I got rid of mine for both of these NAS's)
…hope it helps a litle!
LEO
Ok cool. I have the LS-QVL too, and it uses 14W at idle. That is pretty impressive, I'd expect the netgear to be higher, mostly since it is based on older tech.
We have more stock landing next week to our NSW warehouse - we will ship some stock to store and fulfill all backorders ASAP
Is there any update on the stock coming in?? I have ordered one to be picked up in Perth and want to be sure 1 is allocated.
Stock left Hong Kong on the weekend so we will have stock cleared by Wednesday in to our NSW warehouse. It will be a further few days to get across to WA
hi rep, what about the warranty and shipping cost?
Shipping costs will depend on your location and can be verified in our shopping cart process
Netgear warranty is 3 years
$9.98 - homebush, nsw
$36.00 - Melville, wa
not sure what the other postcode is >.>
*edit: what the above said, add product to cart, then type in a delivery address
I ordered one.
I said I will pick up from one of their stores.
How does this stack up against the newer offering of the NTGRND2000
I'm holding out. I've been holding out for months already though…
The reviews on Umart for the RND4000 (this unit) say it's a bit noisy for living rooms. Everything else seems positive. Umart price is $369 online.
The Netgear is noiser then the Buffalo Linkstation….but better build…but little slower.
Pepsi/Coke type decision I think for everyone.
LEO
Rep i tried to order online but pickup on monday as i will be in the valley is this possible i want to reserve 2 units.
very good price and thanks for listing it as seperate deal because i wouldnt have gone into monitor deal to find out other deals. Cheers
The best way is to call 1300 139 999 and have them transfer you to the QLD store so they can put the stock aside for you
was going to buy this but
a) theres better out there for a marginal difference
b) would be a huge impulse buy - especially when im having cash flow problems
Can you please give me a few examples of your a) options.
Better for similar $$ = :)
Quite a few of us bought the LS-QVL when it first came out a month or so ago…
http://www.ht.com.au/part/Y9054-Buffalo-LinkStation-Pro-Quad…
Its cheaper, faster, quieter, and should use less power than the RN. LS_QVL uses 14W idle with one HDD in it.
Another option would be a HP microserver. These have just recently dropped in price massively…
http://www.ht.com.au/part/Z1900-HP-ProLiant-MicroServer-Athl…
But you need to BYO OS for it, but there are really good free NAS OSes about like openfiler etc. That HP microserver owns even the newer Atom based NASes, reports of 30W idle power consumption too.
How many drives can it handle?
@asa79 - assuming you mean the HP linked above, 4 internal drives total, ships with a 250GB installed.
Looks like a great bargain IMO. As stumo suggested, chuck openfiler (or similar) on it and you're rocking!
That HP Micro server looks like great value.
Trouble with the microserver is that its already been pre-ozbargained by the guys at ocau.
It is awesome though. 4 drives on a micro-sas backplane,plus a 5.25 bay plus low profile pcie slots, 2 ddr3 ecc slots. People have even run mild vmware hosting on them
Hey "HT REP" - any more of the HP Micro servers coming to stock?
THX!!
Thanks for the info Stumo!
noob question, but so its a backup server hdd, stores whatever you want
is this only LAN or wireless connectivity? i could only see ethernet connectivity
connect it via cable to a wireless router and it's wireless.
It's not a "backup server hdd"
It's a NAS (Network Attached Storage)
When they say Ethernet connectivity, that's what they mean. It connects via Ethernet.
If you're wondering if this connects to the internet as well as LAN, sure. Why not. There's even a BitTorrent add-on for it.
ReadyNAS is based on "IT3107" processor Infrant. Anyone knows what are those? Whether there is a Linux distro for it?
http://www.kaltech.co.il/pdf/LEONSPARRAIDProcessor.pdf
It's an integrated chip that combines the cpu core, raid engine, sata controller, memory controller etc all onto one chip. The CPU core is based on Sun's SPARC technology.
Basically means the firmware for it is compiled specifically for the device. Some distro's still support SPARC but there's no real easy way for the average person to install "a linux distro" on it. It'll all be customized firmware instead.
If you want something you can install windows/linux on, check out the HP Microserver ;) They've dropped to <$200 now.
Thanks for the info. Personally I have a 2 bay QNAP NAS that's Atom based and they are quite easy to hack. Even Marvel ARM based ones are easy from what I read. I don't mind having another low power NAS box in the house as long as it can do more general tasks.
I'll give a pass in this case.
I have one of these with 2TB WD green drives in them. Very quiet, very low power. Transfers rates are becoming a bit slow compared to newer NAS but certainly sufficient for streaming and torrenting etc.
Drives can be hot swapped (ie you can change drives while it is running rather than having to sit through lengthy rebuilds) and xraid software is very intelligent about using mixed capacity drives. Also can be easily updated by interface and also has a unix shell. For the techos the debian install is based on sarge which is old, but very suitable for simple hardware.
I have a more current Synology as well so my NV+ does a very solid job as a centralised backup server for my Mac/Windows network now.
How did you manage to get the WD green to work on it? I tried but was told by NG that this drive is not supported and I had to swap the drives for the Seagate Barracuda. Anyway the NAS is very solid, I thought I had a good deal 6 months back for $400-ish plus $50 cash back!
What drives are recommended for this nas?
I was thinking of SG Barracuda but I've had bad experience with the past 1.5tb models.
HDD Compatibility list.. http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=82
Now to figure out which is best bang for buck..
Thanks I grabbed 4 2TB WD greens :]
No probs.
Any good deals for the WDs? looking for some myself.
$90 a pop didn't seem bad for 2tb
Do you find it fast enough to stream HD 1080P movies to multiple machines, or does it struggle with this?
@asa79 - with mine i've only been testing streaming 720p (Apple TV wirelessly) and music playback at the same time.
I wouldnt say that they would do much more though with the 20meg/sec transfer rates..IMHO
I have ordered now all I need is a deal on some 2tb drives, could be a few people looking to purchase a fair few of them by the looks someone may step in.
For what its worth. I'd recommend shopping around for your hard drives to go into a RAID array. What I mean by this is that you don't want your drives from the same batch.
I previously had a client that had a RAID array and all the drives started failing within days of each other (all from the same batch). Fortunately, there was enough time gap to rebuild the array between failures but it could easily have been totally different.
Never again! I'd recommend buying drives from different retailers or even mixing brands.
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