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By Craig Simms, on 23 June 2008 02:35 PM
Tags: netgear, nas, storage, netgear readynas duo, drive, raid
1 This is the 3rd NAS I've been using from Netgear (well infrant for the 1st one) the others being the NV and the rackmount version. They just work, no mucking around and makes life easy. While the other 2 are for work, this DUO is for home as I now know I have a file storage system that I can trust which is why I couldn't care less that it doesn't have RAID0 as I want to mirror the data in case of HDD failure.
Not only can you dump your USB devices to it, but you can do the opposite, dump your data/backups to a USB drive and take away for safe keeping.
Not sure if it works on the DUO, but with the bigger ReadyNAS devices if you want more space, just take out 1 HDD (say 500GB) and add a larger drive (1TB), let it sync then take out the other 500GB drive and put in the 2nd 1TB drive & let that sync. You have just incresed your storage from 500GB to 1TB with no hassles (providing you use X-RAID), so I'm hoping the same can be done on the DUO as that is just sweet.
The good: A very trust worthy NAS, that's hassle free. Well built, not plastic like so many others in this price range. Best device for the buck compared to similar solutions. Little power use, so even if you build an old Linux box up, it'll cost you more in power over the long run.
The bad: Would be nice if a little cheaper, but just how important are your photos, documents?
Got a question, I don't know much about the RAID x and the rest but if i don't want to use the mirror function, i just want more space, is that possible as well or does the second drive have to be a copy???? any help
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You can buy the single disk 500GB version for $499 at dicksmith powerhouse which seems pretty good value.