JESUITS - gadget @ TTS -Ep3- Infrant ReadyNAS NV+

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On this episode of 'gadget' we take a look at the Infrant NV+ NAS. This box features 4 hot-swappable SATA bays and a dedicated RAID processor. It provides outstanding performance and RAID 0,1,5,X for data security.

'gadget' is a production of the Center for Apostolic Technology, a ministry of the California Province Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. Robert Ballecer is a Jesuit scholastic in the California Province, set to be ordained to the Roman Catholic Priesthood on the 9th of June, 2007. For more information about our show, or to download the high-resolution versions of our episodes, please visit

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Jesuit
• Infrant
• uberGeek
• NV+
• NAS
• RAID
• Apostolic
• x-raid
• ballecer
• MHT
• netgear
• Calprov

[dirtydonki]

I sincerely hope that Netgear are showing you their appreciation for your fine review & demonstation/teach-in.

You just sold me one.

[gadgettts]

@dirtydonki,

Netgear is AWESOME with their stuff. They've allowed me to give away almost all of the gear they've sent me... even the stuff that I chose not to review.

You should check out the reviews we did of their NVX and Pro. Those two models are much closer to the new generation of ReadyNAS boxes... and just as impressive. :)

.

Peace,

Fr. Robert

[TedTimmis]

Thank you Father Robert for this review. I think it is great that Catholic Clergy are getting tech savy and I think this has important implications for the Church. I have a tech related comment. Many of the media players now have internet radio pre-set stations (e.g. Windows Media Player, Orb, Squeezebox). One thing they are all missing are the various Catholic online radio stations. We need to get the word out to these companies that they need to include these stations.

[gadgettts]

TedTimmis,

Thanks for the kind comment. I wish everybody was as willing to see that Catholics can be geeky too! :)

I actually HAVE seen religious channels built into some of these Internet Radio enabled devices. The problem is that most of the GOOD Catholic content isn't indexed properly.

Hmmm... Perhaps THAT is something that I should start doing...

.

Thanks again.

.

Peace,

Fr. Robert

[SxeD4ve]

the backup button actually backs up the usb thumb drive to the nas

[aidanhill]

Would this work with an iMac and TV Apple?

[grooveclubhouse]

time to get your geek on. 5 stars for that!

[pimpao68]

NICE JOB, NETGEAR can't do better explanaition. TYVM

[themountainviewguy]

The more bays the more expensive the unit, incrementally, but the more useful and flexible it is too. I think 8 Bays would be great, and the ability to "VLAN" drives into at least 2 volumes might be nice as well. With every bay the 1/N overhead goes down ... and 8 to 10 bays seems like the natural level. That way you can grow your array and at various points decide to either expand horizontally or replace a few smal drives with larger ones as they get cheaper.

[themountainviewguy]

> all I have to do to add more space is simply remove a drive and replace it with a bigger one.

This is my point, that is NOT all you have to do. If you have 4 drives of size X, putting a new drive of size Y, where Y > X will not help you one bit. You have to upgrade your whole array ... and it leaves you will 4 useless drives that are or little value to you.

You can start out with 2 drives, but then you waste 50% of your disks ... with all four drives you only waste 25% of your disks.

[themountainviewguy]

And now Netgear/Infrant supports 2TB drives ... which I just filled my box with to give me 5.5 TB or redundant storage. Works very well so far ... just taking a long time to get data into or out of.