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Infrant Netgear ReadyNAS
Infrant, recently purchased by netgear, make some great NAS units. I use them in both a datacenter and home environment. All of the units have been running for several months under heavy usage without any downtime or other issues.
The Readynas 1100 is a 1u rackmount unit. On, most racks you can actually get two of these NAS units per U by racking them back to back. Each unit takes up to 4 drives and has RAID 1, RAID 5, and X-RAID. The units support rsync, ftp, http, NFS, and many more protocols.
The Netgear ReadyNas NV+ is a free standing unit, ideal for home or office use. I have one of these setup in RAID5 for home use.
Highly recommended.
October 29th, 2007 - 23:43
I just purchased a couple of ReadyNAS NV+ units with 1 GB RAM for office use. It is good to see others are using the ReadyNAS under heavy load.
October 29th, 2007 - 23:58
Good choice! I’m sure you will love it. The number of built in features and reliability is simply great.
October 30th, 2007 - 21:52
At work, do you have a Linux or Windows environment? I’m looking forward to the next ReadyNAS firmware update and improved Active Directory and 1 TB drives support.
October 30th, 2007 - 21:59
For the 5 units pictured above we use NFS to mount them as drives under a linux environment. With RAID5 and 750 gig drives the freespace is 2tb per unit.
The NV+ which I have in my home is used under windows.
Yeah the 1tb drive support will be great.