Introduction to NETGEAR ReadyNAS 2100

An introduction to the new ReadyNAS 2100 4-bay rack mount Unified Storage.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NAS
• SAN
• storage
• iSCSI
• rackmount
• rack
• 1U
• backup

[ChrizRockster]

What speed are the disks? I'm thinking of using a few of these for Disk to Disk backup, is it worth it? NAS box's dont need to be at the speed of light usually, but how does this one compare to a standard OS Driven NAS box?

[peterairs]

The RN2100 will Read/Write at 75MB/s so faster than all other 4 bay 1U NAS.

It is ideal for D2D backup as it includes a built in backup manager and Rsync over SSH so you can synch boxes securely, even across the internet.

For a full answer, why not post a pre sales question at the forums on readynasdotcom.

[ChrizRockster]

Is that data rate the same even if the disks are in RAID-1 pairs?

[peterairs]

Probably a lot slower but I've never come across anyone using a unit in that way!

Now I'm intrigued! Why would you want to use RAID1?

Best performance is typically achieved with X-RAID2 running 4 drives in a RAID5 config.

X-RAID2 will mean you can swap drives and upgrade capacity on the fly, which is a feature worth hanging on to.

RAID1 will give you similar performance to a single drive - ie way slower than a RAID5 set.

[ChrizRockster]

The unit has the feature of RAID-1, so therefore it shouldn't matter if a user needs it or not.

Is it in the documentation that read/write performance is laboured by the use of RAID-1?

I look after the servers in my company (12 Dell Rack Servers), one of which is a Dell PowerVault NF500. Fantastic piece of kit, and i'm just comparing performance between that and other NAS devices.

[peterairs]

I wouldn't say that read/write is laboured in RAID1. RAID1 just not as fast as RAID5. That's a fact of life. Or of RAID anyway.

Dell don't benchmark their products usually and no one has reviewed the unit either, so I don't know how fast the Dell unit is.

Also note that there is now a ReadyNAS 3200 which is a 2U 12 bay unit with 100MB/s performance.

[swsceese]

Great video, bad production. First unit recieved had a bad HDD from Netgear pre-installed. Finding USB ports on the back were inop, we were sent another one. Netgear said we would be given a credit for the amount of money we spent on the tech-support package, roughly $500. On the 2nd unit, the web interface would not function. Had to upgrade the firmware on a brand new unit. Network sharing service still doesnt work right, but they wont support us because theyve since refunded the money...

[Siempie89]

He drinks way to much coffee! Thx for your info ;)

[peterairs]

The hadware is exactly the same, only the disks change.

8TB unit will be available in July. Enterprise class 2TB disks have only just become available and are going through QA and compatibility testing at the mo.

[Armornone]

Does the 8TB one used a different chipset than the smaller ones?

Or are they exactly the same but with different size hard drives?

Thanks