NETGEAR ReadyNAS RN212 2 Bay 2TB Desktop Personal Cloud NAS, Desktop and Mobile App, 12TB Capacity Network Attached Storage, 1.4GHz Quad Core Processor, 2GB RAM, RN212D21-100NES

The reason I looked at these is because I've had a ReadyNAS NV+ V2 for about 6 years and it was getting a little long in the tooth.I bought my first one of these in July 2019 and was really satisfied with the performance and usability. I got the second one in March 2020, and have been using the two as a pair of fault tolerant storage systems.This is an excellent product for home use, and even thought the spec here says it can go up to 24 TB, it has been designed to take larger disks to accommodate more storage. According to the Readynas Hard Disk Compatibility list, it can take up to 4x16TB disks.The two I have are configured with 4x4TB and 4x6TB drives respectively, and I've found the devices to be very easy to configure and very reliable.I have also set them up to be Time Machines for my Macs and they work really well for that purpose. You can configure how much disk space you want to assign to the Time Machine Backups, and also configure both shared and private Time Machines.Overall I'm really happy with the RN214s that I have

Easy set upGreat HDD carrier system (no screws!)Simple but useful backlit info screenQuiet enough for desktop or domestic useInstant recognition and control through Insight app, but web portal is intuitive and good to use.Great design and execution Netgear!

Simple to get up and running, simple to set up personal cloud and access from phone etc ehen away from home. I added 12Tb of storage in a raid 5. If you have a netgear swich you can bond the two ethernet ports, even with a normal switch/hub you can still use both to improve load balancing. Not too keen ont he documetnation for backups using RSYNC, most is for an older version of the operating system. You do need to make sure you get the latest firmware updates. For the hardcore users you can enable SSH root access and that gives you the full power of the linux distribution on which it runs. I have two in separate building, one backing up the other, one running subversion and mysql and the other offiering a web service too - you can do all that just picking apps off the menus. I have all my music, videos etc on it and DLNA to TV, hifi etc. My main use is to hold my photographic works and that runs to a few Tb. The apps screen offers Resilio Sync and that provides a simple (and free) means to set up syncronised folders across multiple PCs, tablets...My only gripe is that I has a few "slow downs" accesing shared folders from my PC. and I keep turning up out of date examples and documents when I search for help. Updates improved things, but then I found out I needed to adjust the paging fiile on the PC - strange but it worked.

Loaded with 3xSeagate Ironwolf 8TB. Easy to set up, does what it says on the tin, excellent performance (consistently over 90 MB/s read & write over a single gigabit ether connection). The Netgear ReadyNAS devices may not have as many "bells and whistles" as some competitors but this really isn't a problem. Just be aware that building a 24TB RAID 5 volume (using X-Raid configuration) takes the best part of 24 hours, I don't see there's any way out of this (my ReadyNAS 104 with 4x4TB drives takes over 3 days).

I've upgraded from an old Netgear Duo (roughly 10yrs old - and still going strong but I out grew the 2TB limit).Only running a single drive so far (which might be speeding up write speeds) but managing 100MB/s write, which is the max of the single connection.Shares are much easier to set up the whole GUI is much improved (as you'd expect after 10years!)Very pleased with the redundancy and volume offered from a 4bay system.

If an extra external disk drive is plugged in it does not reconise it is there too fast and may need the NAS rebooting. There is a difference between the web interface and Windows File Explorer? I lost files on RAID 5. The unit keeps warning DATA: Degraded. The disk number LEDs blink to tell you what disk is faulty. It seems to be settling down now, but keep a separate backup of your data in case off loss.

I'm no slouch with computers having spent decades working in tech support and managing systems from the home level up to enterprise infrastructure including raid systems. Having said that I found setting this system up to be very frustrating and had some serious niggles that were major sources of annoyance. Once it was up and running everything seems fine but those initial headaches really soured my experience of it.On initial setup it insists you change the password, which is a great practise for security, however it promptly forgot it so after it rebooted as part of the wizard it would no longer let me log in with the old or the new password, meaning an immediate factory reset to regain access. I know what you are thinking, perhaps I typed the password wrong when I was setting it up, I initially thought the same, yet this happened 3 times in a row!Firmware updates. After I had finally managed to get access again I had set a new password and rebooted and still had to use the old password to get in, it asked for a firmware update. Again it had to download and perform this update multiple times before it actually realised yes it had performed the update. Yes in each occasion it was updating from the same old version to the same new version.Share naming. I set up an array and shared it with the network only to find it was maxed out at around 10 percent of the maximum storage capacity. Eventually through trial and error I found out that if your NAS box and the share you are trying to use are named the same thing it causes problems, as soon as I changed the name of the share to something else it allowed me to go past 10% capacity.Is it working now? Well apart from taking what seems like an inordinately long time ( as long as 30 seconds some times) to spin up the drives and start sending data if it hasn't been accessed in a while, yes it does seem to work ok now.

Well made, great software and very easy to set up. Performs well with no issues. We'll worth the money.

I’ve had my RN214 for a little over a year now and have been very happy with it.We use the NAS to run our Plex server, to easily synchronize photos from our Android phones, for computer backup, and a place directly scan documents to… more on each of these below. I’m currently running two HGST 6TB NAS drives in RAID1, but will soon be replacing them with four Toshiba N300 6TB NAS drives in RAID5.PLEX/MEDIA SERVEROur primary use of this unit for watching and recording OTA (i.e. antenna-sourced) TV with Plex via an HD HomeRun Extend. We watch TV and recordings with Amazon FireStick4k and on our phones. This NAS has adequate performance to record one show while watching another show live provided no transcoding is required, or it can record two shows simultaneously. This unit doesn’t have the capacity to live transcode, so look elsewhere if that is important to you. Load times are quick and there are no noticeable delays.PHOTO SYNCWe each have Samsung phones, and use the ReadyCLOUD app to easily upload all new photos to our ReadyNAS. Provided the NAS is properly configured, you can synchronize from anywhere – a great way to keep backups of photos while travelling.COMPUTER BACKUPSI do manual backups of important files monthly – I know there are automated options, but I prefer to manually upload files. I save them to a restricted folder to prevent access by anyone else.SCANNING DOCUMENTSOur printer/scanner has the capability to scan to NAS. This is super convenient because the computer doesn’t even need to be on to make the scan. We have ours set to scan to a “scanned items” folder that is accessible from our computers and phones.MISCELLANEOUS COMMENTSBuild quality is excellent – this thing is built like a tank. The backlit display is convenient and lets you know status changes if you aren’t logged into the ReadyNAS portal. I’m unsure of the power consumption but the power brick is rated for 84W peak (assuming HDDs are 10W each, this suggests that the NAS could use up to 44W under load?).OVERALLThis is an excellent easy-to-setup media server and backup NAS. If you require live transcoding, look elsewhere, but if not, consider this unit.

Umzug der Festplatten aus leistungsschwachem baugleichem Vorgängermodel sehr einfach, Harddisks in der selben Reihenfolge ins neue NAS gesteckt und gebootet, der Rest wie Firmwareupdate, Festplattenerkennung ging ohne weiteres zutun. Kleines Gehäuse für 4 HDD's. Im Betrieb sehr leise.

Does exactly what it's supposed to do.I use it as a media center.I installed the Plex app and it works great for publishing and making available my videos. Seamless integration with Wifi with no disconnects, Access the server via IP address to folders on Windows PC for uploading content. Use the Plex app to index, manage, and make the content available. Quiet running.

Ottimo prodotto, realizzato in metallo e con cura. Alloggia 2 dischi SATA e ha un sistema di fissaggio di ogni disco veramente semplice e senza l'utilizzo di cacciaviti. A livello di software consente la gestione in modo facile via browser web. Di default il software gestisce i due dischi inmirror, ma è possibile cambiare la tipologia di RAID.E' possibile spegnere il NAS sia attraverso il pulsante di alimentazione, che via software. In questo caso solo manualmente o schedulando lo spegnimento in giorni e ore prefissate. Purtroppo non si può impostare uno spegnimento dopo xxx ore di inattività.Ha la funzione Wake Up on Lan sulla scheda di rete primaria (è dotato di due porte di rete) solo che occorre scaricare un software di terze parti per inviare al NAS il comando di accensione. Per il MAC ho trovato molto utile il programma REMOTE WAKE UP e per l'iPad l'app WAKE UP.Il prodotto mi è arrivato in 1 giorno solo che aveva un difetto: la ventola di raffreddamento ticchettava in modo molto fastidioso. Il servizio clienti di AMAZON si è dimostrato come sempre eccezionale e pronto a risolvere ogni inconveniente: mi ha rispedito il giorno dopo un NAS nuovo in sostituzione, prima ancora che io restituissi il mio all'ufficio postale.

Ho acquistato un'unità diskless ed ho installato, per ora 2 dischi da 4 TB, l'installazione dei dischi e la messa in funzione dell'unità sono state di una semplicità esemplare, unico aspetto per cui ho dovuto contattare l'assistenza è stata la registrazione del dispositivo che era avvenuta senza che ne ricevessi conferma per cui non capivo se era andata a buon fine o meno.Il servizio assistenza mi ha dato risposta precisa e pronta.Il dispositivo nell'uso risulta molto veloce e silenzioso e, ad oggi (dopo oltre 4 mesi dall'installazione), non ha mai presentato alcun tipo di problema ed è anche assai performante nella gestione dei contenuti tramite DLNA per la riproduzione su periferiche di rete.Perfetto in tutto!