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| Netgear RND2110 ReadyNAS Duo 1 TB Desktop Network Attached Storage | 
 enlarge | Brand: Netgear
Category: CE
List Price: $984.00
Buy New: $610.46
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 4192
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
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Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 1
Size: 1 TB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.9 x 11.4
nv:Form Factor: Desktop
Memory Type: DDR-SODIMM
Total Memory: 256 MB
Total Storage Capacity: 1.0 TB
Number Of Hard Drives Bays: 2
Hard Drives Included: 1
Hard Drive Interface: SATA II
USB Ports: 3
Communications Description: Network Adapter
Interface Type: RJ-45
Data Transfer Rate: 1000 Mbps
Data Transfer Rate: 100 Mbps
Data Transfer Rate: 10 Mbps
Protocols: TCP/IP
Built-In Network Services: FTP Server
Built-In Network Services: HTTP Server
Built-In Network Services: NFS
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: RND2110-100NAS
Model: RND2110-100NAS
UPC: 606449057805
EAN: 0606449057805
ASIN: B0013FW8XS
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| Features:
| • | Network attached storage device offers 1 TB of storage with GigaBit Ethernet for fast data transfer | | • | Stream music, photos and video to network media players without a computer | | • | Access files from anywhere via Internet connection; host your personal Web page to share with friends and family | | • | Support for extra hard drive, allowing X-RAID data protection | | • | Measures 4.0 x 5.6 x 8.7 inches (WxHxD); 5-year warranty |
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Product Description
The ReadyNAS Duo RND2110 is perfect for homes with more than one computer. Unlike a USB drive, the ReadyNAS connects to the network and is simultaneously accessible via all connected Windows or Macintosh computers.If there is a broadband Internet connection and a home router, the ReadyNAS can be set up to provide secure access to all the stored files remotely via the Internet.
Amazon.com Product Description
The NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo is an ideal Network Attached Storage device for use in homes with more than one computer. The ReadyNAS Duo offers an incredible 1 TB of storage and lets you easily share your files, music, and video over a home network and access your data remotely over the Internet. It can even stream music, photos and video to a network media players without a computer.  | The NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo: - Offers 1 TB (1,000 GB) of storage for Mac and PC sharing.
- Streams music, pictures, and videos to network media players without a computer.
- Lets you access and download your data from anywhere via Internet.
- Includes Gigabit Ethernet for super-fast data transfers.
- Creates a personal Web page to easily share photos with friends and family.
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A Gigabit Ethernet connection means fast speeds when the ReadyNAS is connected to your home network. View larger. View back. | 
Removable trays make adding another drive a snap.View larger. | The Ideal Home Media Server
With the ReadyNAS duo connected to your home network, you can listen to your digital music without the need for a computer. The device's advanced media streaming features support such media devices as the NETGEAR EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD, Logitech Squeezebox, Apple iTunes clients, Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360. The ReadyNAS Duo features a Gigabit Ethernet connector that can provide a fast 1000 Mbps connection to your network, which ensures that you can stream audio and video without any hiccups. Compatible with both Macs and PCs, the ReadyNAS is the perfect solution for media storage, allowing you and your family to easily share media files seamlessly. And with an embedded BitTorrent client for direct downloading from the Internet, the ReadyNAS will ensure that you can publish, discover and download digital entertainment content quickly, easily and securely. 1000 GB of Storage and Remote Access to Your Files
If you have access to a broadband Internet connection, the ReadyNAS Duo also allows you to easily access to all your files no matter where you are. If you forget to bring that one file with you for a meeting, it's simple to retrieve it from your home server, quickly and securely. You can also use the ReadyNAS Duo to host your personal Web page, so you can easily share photos and media with friends and family. The ReadyNAS Duo comes with 1 TB of hard drive space, enough for 4,000,000 photos, 18,500 hours of music, or 1500 hours of video. (If you don't need quite so much storage space, NETGEAR also offers the ReadyNAS Duo in the ReadyNAS Duo 500 GB and ReadyNAS Duo 750 GB models.) It includes three USB ports that allow you to directly connect USB disk drives, USB flash drives, printers, and wireless network adapters, adding even greater functionality to your home network. This device also has easily accessible SATA hard disk drive bays with easy-to-use hot-swappable and lockable trays. Simply by adding a second hard disk drive all of your valuable files are automatically duplicated for the ultimate in file protection and back-up. NETGEAR's exclusive X-RAID technology is built into the hardware. A second drive provides full data redundancy for protection against hardware failure and takes over if the first hard drive ever were to fail. A self-managing and monitoring system offers automatic power-up and shutdown, drive monitoring, and problem identification, for even greater peace of mind. The ReadyNAS Duo requires computers operating on Windows 2000, Windows XP Home or Professional (SP1 or SP2), Windows Vista, Mac OS X, or Linux. It has a Kensington lock security hole and is backed by a 5-year warranty. What's in the Box
ReadyNAS Duo, 2 hard disk trays, 1 pre-loaded 1 TB (1000 GB) Hard Drive, quick installation guide, warranty card, power adapter, power cable, Ethernet cable, installation CD, ReadyNAS discovery utility, NTI Shadow for ReadyNAS for Windows and Macintosh.
 The ReadyNAS Duo lets you create a robust, multi-media home network.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 Nothing fancy ReadyNAS Rocks! December 2, 2008
We have the 500GB model and are using it as the home file and music server with Mac OS X. We have it connected to our Sonos Digital Music system as well. It's simple and it totally rocks. Music plays out via our wifi network with no fuss, we can easily run downloads and stream out the library directly to iTunes on our laptops as well. It's pretty easy to setup.
I had a bit of trouble getting FTP access but nothing too hard if you know a tiny bit about ftp networking. It's quiet, small and is low power consumption. It even emails me when it has a problem, though that's rare. Mostly when the power in the house goes out and it has to restart itself. It was down to this and the Drobo but that was way more expensive and requires you to buy your own drives and add the NAS option. The ReadyNAS is all ready to go right out of the box. We couldn't be happier.
Professional feature-set in a consumer-friendly unit November 30, 2008
Most appliance-style consumer devices are dumbed-down, inflexible units aimed at consumers who don't need power-user features, while the pro gear is expensive and far too complex for most people to set up. That frustrates home power-users who are stuck in the middle of the two markets.
As an IT professional and advanced hobbyist, these shortcomings irk me with most gear like this unit. In reading the specs for the Netgear, my concern was that it tried to do too much, but it turns out it does everything well (that I've tried so far). Netgear has tried to go beyond basic NAS and make this little box be the center of your network, including support for photo sharing, bit-torrent, chaining on additional devices, etc, and they seem to have succeeded.
I won't rehash the feature list, but pros:
* Very solidly constructed, with variable speed cooling.
* Empty second drive bay allows cheap expansion.
* Drive-sled design is shared with larger ReadyNAS units for easy uprades.
* Many protocols supported (NFS, APF, etc), nice that it's not just the usual SMB/CIFS.
* SNMP and SMART support, and email alerts, add some enterprise-style monitoring capabilty.
* Easy to check for firmware updates (from admin interface)
* Power management makes it use even less power (and it's quieter when drive is spun-down).
* Unit allows for chaining of additional USB devices (I tested it with a keychain-style flash-drive).
* More features than most people will use.
* RAIDar software provides easy access but is not required for normal use (only to "find" the unit for lay-people). All actual admin is through web-GUI.
* I tested CIFS, NFSv3/udp, and NFSv3/tcp throughput. My test-bed was a FreeBSD server running a packet filter, so your results may be higher without the filter or from Windows, or with tuning for jumbo packets (supported) or higher MTU.
* In my tests, baseline throughput for comparison from local disk to disk, was 44MB/sec for the test dataset. Over the network (through a dumb gig-e switch) to the NAS, for NFS3/udp (w/buffering) it was 6.77MB/sec , 9.44MB/sec for NFS3/tcp , and 10.1MB/sec for SMBFS (CIFS).
* Basic security levels are ok, requiring the default password be changed on first login and FTP is disabled by default.
* RPC services running on the Netgear by default are rpcbind, rquotad, status, nfs, nlockmgr, mountd .
Quibbles (too small to be Cons):
* Unit is loud on power-up (louder than my PCs). Idle noise level is a little high also.
* Boot time is sluggish. Firmware upgrade (I did one) takes several reboot cycles and a seemingly inordinate length of time, more than 20 minutes?
* Netgear site claims the unit has SSH support, but unit does not answer on TCP/22, and I didn't seen an option to enable SSH.
* Web admin interface is a little clunky, could use "save" buttons at the top of each screen. Advanced options are a little obtuse and could use links to additional documentation or wikipedia entries or something.
Conclusion: this Netgear strikes a nice compromise between power and ease of use, with advanced features and a lot of configurability, while arriving set up for immediate use on your home network.
It may not be for your technophobe elderly aunt, but presumably such a person wouldn't have a home network in the first place. Highly recommended.
ReadNAS Duo First Impressions November 23, 2008
I don't write many reviews. I must really like something, or hate something, before I take the time to write a review. In this case I very much like the ReadyNAS Duo. I just purchased the Netgear RND2150 and have been experimenting with setup and configuration. I have software engineering and storage experience so I found this very easy to use. For the novice and experienced alike, the [...] web site should be very useful. There are how-tos and you can download useful add-ons from the site.
This is one solid and compact little device.
The latest RAIDiator 4.1.4 firmware supports both RAID 0 and RAID 1. Read the release notes.
RAID 0 (500GB + 500GB = 1TB no disk drive failure support) or RAID 1 (500GB + 500GB = 500GB Redundent data allows for 1 disk failure).
This a serious linux based server. Don't expect to stick a windows drive with data into an internal slot and expect to see the data. The internal drives are formatted for the appropriate RAID configuration. You can connect a windows NTFS or FAT drive as an external USB drive and it will share the existing data (but USB external NTFS was slow in my testing - more later).
ReadyNAS Duo uses journaling by default. Journaling is a method of logging a disk operation before execution, so if there is a power failure for example, the system can determine if the operation completed and provides much improved reliability over an non-journaling systems.
Couple of comments.
If you want to switch to RAID 0 you must first delete the RAID 1 volume which is created by default. This deletes all data so back up first.
To add security to shares you must first create users in the user admin area. Then you can add these users to to restricted shares to limit access.
Remember to enable "allow guest access" for windows if you want open access to the shares.
USB external drives:
If you add a windows NTFS USB drive you can use it but it is much slower than if you format it with EXT3 in the USB Storage panel. The system assigns a share name to each external drive. You can change the name of the USB share. However if you remove the USB drive and add another you cannot reuse the same share name unless you use the Add-on utility "Clean_USB_Storage.bin". You can download this from the [...] site. To reset your USB share names, disconnect all usb shares, disconnect or power off the USB disks, load this utility, and all USB share names are reset.
All all-in-all on first impressions this is a great box. The ReadyNAS Duo will allow me to have redundant RAID1 shares and also non-redundant shares using external USB drives, all without tying up a server and the associated server maintenance (especially windows). I am very happy with this product based on my initial experience.
1-star review by Kalyan S. Tirumala should be ignored because... November 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is a shame that the reviewer Kalyan S. Tirumala (below) lost all his/her hard drive data, but please understand that what Kalyan S. Tirumala did was wrong. You are not supposed to take a hard drive that you own AND has your important data on it, and install it into the NAS. Do not do that! If you do this, the NAS will automatically reformat the drive you installed (reformats drive to ext3 file system) which then deletes all data that was on it. Then, Kalyan S. Tirumala goes on to complain about tech support.... OMG. Sorry, but I had to LOL.
Netgear ReadyNAS Duo November 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I use the unit to backup the various coumpters on my home network. It was easy to set up and runs very quitely. No problems so far and the speed is well within what should be expected from this type device.
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