NETGEAR has recently launched the newest members of its award-winning ReadyNAS family of network-attached storage solutions-- ReadyNAS NV+ 1.5TB Gigabit Desktop Storage (RND4275), ReadyNAS NV+ 2TB Gigabit Desktop Storage (RND4210), ReadyNAS NV+ 3TB Gigabit Desktop Storage (RND4475), ReadyNAS NV+ 4TB Gigabit Desktop Storage (RND4410) and ReadyNAS 1100 4TB Dual Gigabit Rackmount Network Storage (RNR4410).
The latest additions are said to have improved manageability, usability, performance and peripheral support and in addition to a five-year hardware warranty, ReadyNAS devices now showcase a new NETGEAR branded user interface designed to conform to the familiar, easy-to-use GUI incorporated into the company’s ProSafe line of switches, routers and VPN firewall products.
For sophisticated VARs and end-users, the ReadyNAS products now provide Secure Shell (SSH) access to enable further system customisation.
To enhance ease-of-management, ReadyNAS supports volume sizes larger than 2TB, provides online X-RAID volume expansion, provides the option to save and restore system configurations to simplify multiple unit deployments, and enables ReadyNAS to work more efficiently in larger office environment by limiting it to a single organisational unit in an ADS environment. In addition, ReadyNAS provides support for VMware via NFS over TCP.
Peripheral support has been enhanced by enabling users to share Windows NTFS formatted USB disks by plugging into the ReadyNAS, and providing the ability for ReadyNAS to be specified as a network UPS server for other ReadyNAS systems so that battery-low graceful shutdown can occur when sharing the same UPS.
“The addition of our new higher-capacity ReadyNAS products with their enhanced functionality is very exciting to our end users and solution providers as it further extends the versatility, scalability and functionality delivered by NETGEAR’s industry-leading family of networking solutions for the consumer and SMB sectors,” said Sam Feng, NETGEAR Director of Product Marketing, Storage Solutions.
“By adding higher-capacity options, making the product easier to use and manage, improving the performance, expanding peripheral support, enabling third party development, and providing the industry’s best hardware warranty, we have been able to bring to market a product family that delivers the critical combination of value, ease-of-use, scalability, and reliability that will make ReadyNAS the de facto standard for NAS storage in the SMB and ‘prosumer’ markets.”
NETGEAR ReadyNAS is a smart network attached storage server that combines robust file serving, support for access by multiple operating systems and data redundancy with out-of-box ease of deployment and web-based management. |
