Netgear has its ReadyNAS line is refreshed. The storage systems have faster cpus and more memory, and feature usb 3.0 connectors. In addition, Netgear’s ReadyNAS OS substantially adjusted. So used version 6 the btrfs file system.
In the nas systems, which are equipped with ARM processors has Netgear the ReadyNAS 102 and 104, respectively, two and four drive bays, equipped with a 1.2 GHz Marvell Armada 370 processor. The available ram is increased from 256MB to 512MB. The ReadyNAS 102 and 104 each include two usb 3.0 and a usb 2.0 connection, while the 104 model is an additional gigabit ethernet port provides. Both nas systems are able to deal with hard drives of each 4TB.
The ReadyNas 312, 314 and 316 for respectively two, four and six drive bays and aimed at the business market, have dual-core Atom processors with a clock speed of 2.1 GHz. The ram is 2GB large. The three nas systems come with two esata connectors and an hdmi output. Netgear has the ReadyNAS 516, the most expensive model in the refreshed ReadyNAS-generation with six drive bays, equipped with an Intel Core i3 cpu. This dualcore processor is clocked at 3.3 GHz and the ram is 4GB.
At the same time with the release of the new nas models have Netgear version 6.0 of ReadyNAS OS released. The firmware choose for the btrfs file system instead of the widely applied ext3/4 file systems. Btrfs makes, among other things, the creation of snapshots on filesystem level as possible, but the file system is still being developed. ReadyNAS OS 6.0 offers real-time scanning, iscsi support, and aes encryption.
For the consumer models promises Netgear is a very simplified installation and ReadyDROP, Dropbox-like cloudopslagdienst. In addition, through the web interface, various open-source applications on the nas to be installed, such as MySQL, Transmission, Couch Potato, and ownCloud.
Netgear price for the cheapest model, the ReadyNAS 102, at a suggested retail price of $ 199, while the midrange ReadyNAS 312 a price tag of 449$. The top model should be 1299 dollars muster. The nas will be in the second quarter.
