ReadyNAS NV+ (RNV2-S4-0000), Special Diskless Edition with 4 empty trays, 1GB memory, support X-RAID and RAID 0/1/5, silver, SFF desktop NAS

Average customer rating: 4.0

Works Great! Highly Recommend!
If I could give negative stars I would...
Solid. CPU too weak for some fancy features.
Excellent for Home and/or Small Business
Exceeded expectations

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ReadyNAS NV+ (RNV2-S4-0000), Special Diskless Edition with 4 empty trays, 1GB memory, support X-RAID and RAID 0/1/5, silver, SFF desktop NAS

Manufacturer: Infrant Technologies
Product Group: CE
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ASIN: B000JRSIG2

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Product Description

Have you ever had a hard drive crash and with it many irreplaceable documents and priceless photos were lost forever? Are you looking for a safe and effective way to store and serve your data? Then the New ReadyNAS NV+ from Infrant Technologies is the answer you have been looking for. Packed with technology previously reserved for upper echelon high-end servers (i.e. RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, Continuous System Monitoring and Backup capabilities), the ReadyNAS NV+ brings Enterprise-level technology to the masses in a cost-effective manner. The ReadyNAS NV+ is a bullet-proof way to virtually insure that your data will never be lost again to hardware failure. The ReadyNAS NV+ has a new LCD status panel for easy monitoring of the device, a quieter noise footprint, making it ideal for anywhere in the home and enhanced Macintosh support all in one unit the size of a two-slice toaster. From its class-leading performance to its award-winning feature set to the world-class support team behind the product, the NV+ is definitely the Superior NAS (Network Attached Storage) Device for Office and Home. This model is a special edition with upgraded 1GB SODIMM.

Customer Reviews:

Works Great! Highly Recommend!.......2007-05-16

I am no techie, so this review won't have all the numbers and such of some of the others. But I bought this, installed 4 Samsung 500 GB HD501LJ drives (reviews on newegg talked about them running cool, which was important to me) and had this up and running with no hassles. Very impressed.

Now I have 1.3 Terabytes of Network access storage (1/3 of capacity is used for redundancy in case of hard drive failure) and could not be happier. Have had zero issues in 3 months of ownership. They did send an email out about some users systems dying because of heat, and I downloaded the fix which makes the fan run at a higher speed, but was painless to install, just a software update basically. It does make the system noise noticeable if you are in the same room with it, but I have my networked printer and this in a storage room so I am fine with it. Could see someone who wants it in their living room having an issue with the fan noise, but since it resides on a network I don't know why they wouldn't just put somewhere else.

Best NAS device out there, I did about a month of homework reading reviews and user forums of all the brands and settled on this one and am sooo glad I did. Make sure you buy the one with the 1 Gig of RAM, only compliants on user forum I found were minor ones related to the 256 MB Ram version, after upgrading they were fine but save yourself that hassle and just get the 1 GB version to start with.

And don't think you have to buy the one with the drives already in it, even for a non-techie like me it was very easy to install all 4 drives (just use the screws that come with the Infrant, not the screws that come with the drives or you have to do it over when they are too tall to fit). Saved a bundle installing them myself and got to pick quiet and cool drives.

If you need network storage the ReadyNAS NV+ rocks!

If I could give negative stars I would..........2007-05-09

Got the unit home, looks solid, great. Installed software, slapped in several 750 GB disks, formated, brought on line just as advertised. Several days go by where it works fine. Then, crash, nothing, no blinking LED's, no power down (except to pull plug), no network activity, no nothing :-(. Submit a ticket to ReadyNAS, surprise, there Web Site is messed up so you can submit tickets but not log in to check on status. Nor can you log in to participate in any of their forums, etc. It's going on 4 days now, no resolution from ReadyNAS customer support. If your looking to put your critical data on these things and have expectation of rapid support, keep looking! Now going to see how to return for my money back...

Solid. CPU too weak for some fancy features........2007-03-24

I've had this ReadyNAS for about half a year now. I use it in a mixed Linux/Windows/Mac environment via NFS/CIFS/AFS, respectively. I had very high expectations, and mostly it met them. It's easy to set up and solid. I'm docking one star for the following reasons:

* CPU is too weak for SlimServer. SlimServer web UI is really slow. Periodically SlimServer stops responding entirely. (The ReadyNAS itself remains up; SlimServer can be restarted via the ReadyNAS web UI). I have 12k songs; that might just be way more than it can handle. (But such a small fraction of the storage capacity!)

* NFS access permissions don't work quite right. Even though the web UI indicates otherwise you cannot grant root access to a share to one machine (identified by IP address) without also making the whole share readable by everyone. The entire NFS permissions interface is quirky; settings don't stick, boxes are grayed out when they shouldn't be and vice versa. Fortunately this is in stark contrast to the rest of the ReadyNAS web interface.

* CPU is too weak for rsync / SSH. Makes directly integrating into offsite backup difficult (unless you have a VPN).

* It locked up on my once. Fortunately no data loss.

* It takes forever to expand onto a new drive. IIRC ~12 hours with 250GB disks.

* Provided backup software is primitive to what you can do with BackupPC.

Still, I'm very happy with it. It's easy to administer, has a lot of nice touches (like UPS integration, email alerts), and has been a very dependable file server so far. I was skeptical as to how well AFS would be implemented. It works perfectly!

Excellent for Home and/or Small Business.......2007-01-15

I purchased the Infrant NV+ after reviewing the options available to me and I'm quite pleased with the device. Note, the Amazon photographs seem to exaggerate the size of the device. It's actually much smaller than you would anticipate. If you look at my other reviews you'll see that I don't give 5 stars very often.

The device is well built and even with some "minuses"(listed below) it's not enough to give it less than five stars.

"Pluses"
Small footprint
Quiet (except when booting)
Much faster than SimpleShare NAS
Streaming options galore
Accessible by Mac, Linux, Windows

"Minuses"
- Could be faster... I receive 30MB/s reads and 15MB/s writes on a Gigabit non-jumbo frame network. Not bad and still about five to six times faster than my SimpleShare NAS device which I was previously using.
- No SSH for built-in rsync... note, I said built-in rsync!!! Having rsync built-in is a nice touch, but if you go that far you should also put in SSH.
- No lock to prevent drive removal.

Good luck and enjoy!
**** UPDATE ****
The NV+ does have SSH but you can not login and play around inside the device... you can however use SSH port forwarding to create a secure rsync connection.

Exceeded expectations.......2007-01-08

I researched low-end NAS products, and Infrant's are the most expensive choices, but I was attracted by the Mac compatibility (Mac users swear by these), the X-RAID feature (which basically means your chance of losing information is very low and your configuration including the ability to add more storage is very simple), and the quiet nature of the product.

I added 4x 500GB Samsung drives (via Newegg), selected because they run quiet and cool. I plugged it in, and everything worked. There are more features than anyone needs, but the User Interface is quite good for managing the NAS.

Good: Configuration and administration seems quite good. The device is beautiful, and the LCD and status LEDs are perfect for peace of mind and understanding what is going on by just looking at it. In an office, you cannot hear it unless your ear is within 3-4 inches of the NAS.

Bad: In a living room, you can hear it. It is quiet, but it is not silent. For that, you will want the $4000 Infrant Repertoire.

Ugly: There honestly wasn't any ugly. The only things that I would have liked additionally were related to power management. For example, I didn't see a "wake on LAN" option, which could theoretically allow the NAS go to sleep until someone started using it. Also, the file system journaling option appears to be disabled if the power-saving disk shut-down option is used.

Conclusion: We'll probably be buying more of these. Very nice job by Infrant, and lives up to the expectations set by the Infrant fanbois.

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