RN102–2 Bay

My overall experience with 102 has been brilliant. Its fairly straight forward despite the device not really coming with instructions of how to insert the discs into the trays, so watch out for this as the runners are only plastic and could be snapped really easily BUT that said once that was all done it smooth sailing really. The transfer rate has been great and I've now rigged up everything so I'm working purely on the NAS and v few files stored locally - this took a bit of working out but got there in the end. Works as a nice central hub so when I'm working on a document others see those reflected with 10 seconds of me saving the document. The indexing is worth the wait too! Once a file has been uploaded it likes to index it. This was taking forever because of the shear volume but once its dome, it beautifully regulates itself from then on.One thing i have found is it only lets you back up and sync 10 files. Sync with Netgear I've learned is applied to specific folders you want constantly updating and saving files in to. These can then be accessed across the network for others to see the changes reflected. A really handy feature but i was surprised when i probably had a moment of madness and wanted to sync all the folders and i got this error message. Saying that though, for myself its not a massive problem you just have to be selective.Everything's works great with it too once accessed through web browser (ReadyNAS) app isn't supported on Windows Store :( but you can work around that.All in all, I'm really pleased with it. Perfect for new ones like myself wanting to delve a little deeper in to things but i can imagine its limiting for the more advanced user.

I bought this to replace a QNAP TS-212P which I had returned to Amazon. Whereas the QNAP was a nightmare to set up and had appalling documentation, this unit was very easy to configure and has excellent documentation. It was also very simple, via the unit's boot menu, to reformat and use a pair of hard drives salvaged from my old WD MyBook NAS.It is too early to say how durable it will be but it certianly seems very robust and well constructed. I would recommend it!UPDATE: One other reviewer has commented on the fact that the discs never spin down. All the time that the unit is powered on, even if no data is being written or accessed, you can hear the little "tick - tunk" noises made (I guess) by the read/write heads moving backwards and forwards. I don't know whether this means that the disc drives are more likely to wear out prematurely or not, but I have decided to use the built-in timer to only switch on the unit during the hours I expect to be accessing it. The Wake-on-LAN function also works well to boot the unit if I unexpectedly want to use it at other times. I am still perfectly happy, however this solution would not really be acceptable in a busier environment. It would be useful to hear from a disc-drive expert whether or not it is harmful to the drives to have them busily "tick-tunking" 24/7.

This is my first NAS. It's the RN102. On the whole there is room for improvement. I now have had it for a week. I experimented first with an old WD SATA2 640GB HDD, but now had a 1TB Seagate Seagate ST1000DM003 Barracuda 1TB 3.5 inch Hard Drive from its supported drives list. the new drive is even more quieter and a touch quicker, but same issues remain.The unit itself feels well-built and runs quiet. The mechanism to fit the disk is very good and easy. You get cat 5 network cable in the box that I didn't use as I had a spare cat 6 cable. Make sure to read the manuals from Netgear website.When fitted the full WD drive, all lights came on, but I got stuck. As my disk had been in use and not empty, I needed to perform factory default first so the RN102 wipes the disk and install its own OS 6. This should work by disconnecting power, hold paperclip in the reset button/hole in the back, reconnect power and press the front backup button few times to get to the desired default process. Once there, you release the paperclip and the factory default should start, but nothing was cycling for me. Well, this did not work. I eventually got past that by taking the drive out, put it back in its old enclosure, connect to PC as USB external drive and deleted the partitions in win7 administrative tools.When re-installed again, the RN102 became alive and worked fine. No need to download firmware as it automatically prompted me to install the newest version. There was no problem when later on I replaced the new unformatted Seagate drive. The RN102 just automatically did the formatting and the OS6.6 install in no time, so no worries if you fit a brand new drive.I tried drag and drop to copy files in the NAS admin page, but this didn't work in Firefox. Instead I opened "network" in windows, opened the NAS in the top section of "computers" used copy & paste from the PC folders into the corresponding NAS folders. This worked fine and very reasonable speed. Both PC and RN102 are connected directly to the router by network cable. It is seen and works as media server great no problems, but I couldn't so far make it discoverable as "Network windows share" on some other devices, so still trying.The HDD does not spin down even though I'm using a supported drive. You have to power off the unit to give the drive some rest, but on booting again, the NAS almost always is not discoverable as DLNA device. It's luck of the dice how many times it would take rebooting, either by the power button, restart in the web page or unplugging then re-plugging the power cable till it is discoverable again as DLNA on the network. I do not think that it is meant to be "on" all the time and it should really be switched off and on smoothly. Not sure what's the point of "Wake on LAN" if the unit is always on. There should really be something simple like in Windows to set up Sleep after number of minutes of inactivity, and then it would wake on LAN if required. The on and off timer works fine, but same issue with DLNA on booting.Update: I changed the review from first to final impressions and downgraded it from 3 to 1 star. I contacted Netgear trying to solve the problem with booting. They wanted me to try a new firmware that is still a beta version. They have the audacity to sell a product that does not function properly and then ask me to experiment for them. After all these versions of their firmware, you would've thought that all problems have been ironed out. No thank you very much. I will be trying another make and I wish Netgear all the best in charging people to experiment on them. In my humble opinion, they should try their designs out before it is put for sale. The only bonus is that the unit is good looking and well built, but what's the point of a sturdy nice looking unit that raises your blood pressure every time you switch it on. Lesson learnt: No more Netgear for me, it is going back. I think I will give Synology a go.Update: I now had Synology DS213J 2 Bay Desktop NAS Enclosure for a week. It is working with no problems as it should. It does not have USB3 and does not have front USB port. It does not have the brilliant hard drive fitting mechanism of the Netgear, but it is doing what it should be doing. It goes off and back on no problems. It goes to sleep when the disk is not being accessed after time that you can set. It took ages to index all my files overnight, but works flawlessly since then. All my devices could see it and access the files as DLNA and windows share. It is just working. Sorry Netgear, but your fancy box is just too much hassle and the Synology wins hands down.

Ich habe von diesen Geräten 2 Stück im Einsatz. Eins läuft zeitgesteuert 16 bis 20 Stunden pro Tag, das Andere dient als Backupgerät und fährt nur zu diesem Zweck für ein paar Stunden täglich hoch. Hierauf fährt die Hauptmaschine zeitlich gesteuert ihre Backups.Die erste Maschine hat zwei 3 TB Platten von Seagate als RAID1 und die Backupmaschine hat eine WD red 3 TB. Beide Maschinen sind über eine 1GBit Verbindung in das Hausnetz eingebunden.Die "Hauptmaschine" bietet die Home Shares für alle Benutzer meines Netzwerkes und diese sind in deren Windows Workstations als Netzlaufwerke eingebunden. Somit gibt es keine Speicherung wichtiger Daten auf lokalen Festplatten. Desweiteren trägt das NAS natürlich auch die Fotosammlung, Musik und Videos in entprechenden Shares. Die Zugriffe auf diese Resourcen sind in den Berechtigungen der einzelnen User/Gruppen festgelegt. Als Protokolle sind SMB, AFS, DLNA, HTTP und HTTPS aktiviert. Ebenfalls habe ich den Zugriff über SSH aktiviert. Prime Fotos werden in die Cloud repliziert.Die Performance dieser Maschine ist für alle Funktionen bisher sehr gut gewesen, keine Aussetzer oder Verzögerungen. Die Wärme- und Geräuschbelastung ist in allen Situationen sehr gering. Die Maschine ist über die Readycloud aus dem Internet erreichbar, der Zugriff über die Benutzerrechte geregelt.Das Betriebssystem wird von Netgear weiterentwickelt und es kommen immer mal wieder Updates. Das NAS kann auch an eine USV angeschlossen werden, die dieses dann bei Bedarf auch herunterfahren kann.Alles in allem bietet dieses NAS eine solide Ausstattung und zuverlässige Funktion für relativ wenig Geld. Empfehlenswert für Privatanwender, eventuell auch für kleine Firmen.

Matériel livré en 24 heures par Amazon et garanti 3 ans par Netgear après inscription sur MyNetgear avec trois mois de support technique pour l'aide à l'installation. Déjà heureux possesseur depuis plus de trois ans d'un ReadyNAS DUO V1 (processeur SPARC) équipé de 2 disques Western Digital Caviar Green 10EARS ( 1 To ) paramétré en X-RAID et principalement utilisé comme serveur iTunes avec Firefly ainsi que pour des fichiers peu accédés, j'ai fait l'achat de ce ReadyNAS 102 V3 sous OS 6 ( processeur ARM Marvell Armada 370 cadencé à 1,2 GHz ) que j'ai équipé de 2 disques Western Digital Green 10EZRX ( 1 To ) paramétré en X-RAID2. Bien que ces disques ne soient pas conseillés par Netgear pour une utilisation en NAS, j'ai fait ce choix car mes NAS sont à un mètre de mes oreilles et je souhaite privilégier le silence de fonctionnement, la basse température et la faible consommation. Il sera toujours possible de passer à des Western Digital Red par la suite si mes disques lâchent. En utilisation, le RN 102 est quasiment inaudible, ce qui n'est pas le cas du RN DUO V1 à cause de son ventilateur bruyant. L'interface de gestion OS 6 est fluide contrairement à l'interface de gestion Frontview du RN DUO V1 qui est TRES lente. La philosophie des deux interfaces est très différente. Plus sympa, orientée Cloud et utilisateur lambda sur le RN 102. Il manque la gestion des quotas mais cela est dû à un nouveau système de fichiers, BTRFS, qui offre par contre le cryptage des données et les snapshots d'origine (que l'on peut activer ou désactiver) par exemple. J'apprécie l'antivirus intégré et gratuit, le Wake on LAN et la boutique d'applications intégrée, absents du RN DUO V1. Au niveau matériel, les LEDs sont plus visibles et l'installation des disques de format 3.5 pouces sans aucun outil est une idée de génie. On peut bien entendu installer des disques de format 2.5 pouces (classiques ou SSD) mais il faut en ce cas utiliser des vis fournies pour les fixer dans les berceaux. Mes deux NAS sont protégés par un onduleur APC, le RN 102 V3 étant piloté par le RN DUO V1 après paramétrage des deux NAS. Ce RN 102 V3 tourne précisément sous OS 6.1.8. En conclusion, ce produit est parfait pour la protection des données, le Cloud distant ou local, de construction robuste et tout ceci pour un prix très serré. Un seul bémol pour les clients ne maîtrisant pas l'anglais, ce qui n'est pas mon cas. Il m'a été impossible de trouver les deux grosses documentations détaillées en français mais uniquement en anglais au format PDF. Totalement satisfait par cet achat payé 99 euros lors d'une promotion ponctuelle.Mise à jour du 1er juillet 2015 : Au bout d'un an d'utilisation, matériel toujours silencieux et fonctionnant parfaitement sans aucune perte de données bien qu'utilisant 2 disques Western Digital Green 10EZRX ( 1 To et non recommandés par Netgear ) paramétrés en X-RAID2. Avec les nouvelles mise à jour, ce NAS tourne actuellement sous OS 6.2.4Mise à jour du 8 octobre 2015 : NAS mis à jour sous OS 6.4.0 Interface très stable et très réactive.

Questo NAS è fantastico. Ogni volta che ci metto le mani scopro tantissime nuove funzioni ed automatismi.Ma sinceramente credo che il software sia poco intuitivo e spesso è macchinoso. Pensi di fare una cosa invece stai facendo esattamente l'opposto. Forse non c'è stata molta cura nella localizzazione in italiano.Proverò a reinstallare tutto e scegliere l'inglese come lingua.

Bon produit, simple à mettre en place, intuitif et multi protocolesLe multi protocole nécessite une réflexion avant la mise en place, sinon le NAS apparait plusieurs fois sur le MAC

Je suis ravi de cet achat. Je l'ai couplé avec 2 disques Seagate pour NAS. La config par défaut est super et très facile à modifier. Il y a de nombreux add-on (avec un peu trop de pub car certains sont évidement payants) mais les services de base sont là et fonctionnent à merveille. Perso, je recommande le produit.Les disques sont par défaut en RAID 1 et la reconstruction démarre dès le lancement de l'appareil.Le partage sous Windows (8) est on ne peut plus simple.Je l'utilise également pour streamer films et musique vers un WD Live TV (avec possibilité de limité l'accès en fonction de l'utilisateur).Simplement génial!