Netgear ReadyNAS Duo 2-Bay 1 TB (1 x 1 TB) Desktop Network Attached Storage RND2110 | 
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| Brand: Netgear
Category: CE
List Price: $285.99
Buy New: $259.99
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Rating:  167 reviews
Format: CD
Platform: Windows XP
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Linux
Hard Drive Size: 1
Size: 1 TB (1 x 1 TB)
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.6
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.9 x 11.4
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: RND2110-100NAS
Model: RND2110-100NAS
UPC: 606449057805
EAN: 0606449057805
ASIN: B0013FW8XS
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| Features:
| • | Network attached storage device offers 1 TB of storage with GigaBit Ethernet for fast data transfer | | • | Stream music, photos and video to network media players without a computer | | • | Access files from anywhere via Internet connection; host your personal Web page to share with friends and family | | • | Support for extra hard drive, allowing X-RAID data protection | | • | Measures 4.0 x 5.6 x 8.7 inches (WxHxD); 5-year warranty |
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Product Description
READYNAS DUO 1TB SATA TT GIG PERPDESKTOP NAS
Amazon.com Product Description
The NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo is an ideal Network Attached Storage device for use in homes with more than one computer. The ReadyNAS Duo offers an incredible 1 TB of storage and lets you easily share your files, music, and video over a home network and access your data remotely over the Internet. It can even stream music, photos and video to a network media players without a computer.  | The NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo: - Offers 1 TB (1,000 GB) of storage for Mac and PC sharing.
- Streams music, pictures, and videos to network media players without a computer.
- Lets you access and download your data from anywhere via Internet.
- Includes Gigabit Ethernet for super-fast data transfers.
- Creates a personal Web page to easily share photos with friends and family.
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A Gigabit Ethernet connection means fast speeds when the ReadyNAS is connected to your home network. View larger. View back. | 
Removable trays make adding another drive a snap.View larger. | The Ideal Home Media Server
With the ReadyNAS duo connected to your home network, you can listen to your digital music without the need for a computer. The device's advanced media streaming features support such media devices as the NETGEAR EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD, Logitech Squeezebox, Apple iTunes clients, Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360. The ReadyNAS Duo features a Gigabit Ethernet connector that can provide a fast 1000 Mbps connection to your network, which ensures that you can stream audio and video without any hiccups. Compatible with both Macs and PCs, the ReadyNAS is the perfect solution for media storage, allowing you and your family to easily share media files seamlessly. And with an embedded BitTorrent client for direct downloading from the Internet, the ReadyNAS will ensure that you can publish, discover and download digital entertainment content quickly, easily and securely. 1000 GB of Storage and Remote Access to Your Files
If you have access to a broadband Internet connection, the ReadyNAS Duo also allows you to easily access to all your files no matter where you are. If you forget to bring that one file with you for a meeting, it's simple to retrieve it from your home server, quickly and securely. You can also use the ReadyNAS Duo to host your personal Web page, so you can easily share photos and media with friends and family. The ReadyNAS Duo comes with 1 TB of hard drive space, enough for 4,000,000 photos, 18,500 hours of music, or 1500 hours of video. (If you don't need quite so much storage space, NETGEAR also offers the ReadyNAS Duo in the ReadyNAS Duo 500 GB and ReadyNAS Duo 750 GB models.) It includes three USB ports that allow you to directly connect USB disk drives, USB flash drives, printers, and wireless network adapters, adding even greater functionality to your home network. This device also has easily accessible SATA hard disk drive bays with easy-to-use hot-swappable and lockable trays. Simply by adding a second hard disk drive all of your valuable files are automatically duplicated for the ultimate in file protection and back-up. NETGEAR's exclusive X-RAID technology is built into the hardware. A second drive provides full data redundancy for protection against hardware failure and takes over if the first hard drive ever were to fail. A self-managing and monitoring system offers automatic power-up and shutdown, drive monitoring, and problem identification, for even greater peace of mind. The ReadyNAS Duo requires computers operating on Windows 2000, Windows XP Home or Professional (SP1 or SP2), Windows Vista, Mac OS X, or Linux. It has a Kensington lock security hole and is backed by a 5-year warranty. What's in the Box
ReadyNAS Duo, 2 hard disk trays, 1 pre-loaded 1 TB (1000 GB) Hard Drive, quick installation guide, warranty card, power adapter, power cable, Ethernet cable, installation CD, ReadyNAS discovery utility, NTI Shadow for ReadyNAS for Windows and Macintosh.
 The ReadyNAS Duo lets you create a robust, multi-media home network.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 167
 Seemingly minor problems out of the box. Dead after 3 hours of use July 29, 2010
David A. Corby (Oakland CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am an IT person with a lot of years of experience. Out of the box the software that comes on the ReadyNas was corrupt. I needed to download a new version from Netgear. To update the software/firmware you have to put the ReadyNas in a state that it can actually accept the update. It took me an hour to get the timing right. The ReadyNas seemed to work for about 5 minutes and the software would go corrupt again. The interface is beyond clumsy. It is a throw back to the early 1990s in design and function.
After about 3 hours of playing around with this thing it finally died. It went into a state where all the lights were blinking. I returned it to Amazon. I wish I could give Netgear a zero stars for this. I used to own a lot of their products but this ReadyNas has made me swear them off for good.
 ReadyNAS was a good company until Netgear got them July 10, 2010
George Mealer (Campbell, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Made the mistake of buying this a couple of years ago, then shelved it for awhile. Now I've discovered that the Seagate drive shipped in it is bad and throwing an increasing crap-ton of SMART disk errors. Current non-beta firmware also has great behaviors like making shares you just renamed disappear (forcing a complete rewipe of the NAS to ever have a share by that name again), messing up created user accounts, etc. New beta firmware fixes some of that, but A) who knows to look for it? and B) who knows where to look for it? Not the average joe who just wants their NAS to work!
Customer support is absolutely terrible unless you're willing to troll message boards. The official support pages are contradictory and incomplete, and new versions of firmware are frequently only announced in forum messages. That, of course, is when they occur, since they insist on supporting every version of ReadyNAS to the beginning of time with a single firmware version, which takes the development cycle out to eons.
To be fair, the message board jedis are reasonably responsive (though I'm unclear if they all work for Netgear or are volunteers picking up the slack from this awful company) but for something that's ostensibly a failsafe solution, I don't trust it one little bit. Netgear has been churning out sheer crap for years, and it's a shame that ReadyNAS fell into their hole.
Two stars only because of the number of features and the user community. The hassle and lack of peace of mind isn't worth it though.
 It Works - Survived A Real World Disk Failure July 8, 2010
Matt Doyel (SF, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this unit 2 years ago from Amazon. It came with a 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 installed and I purchased a duplicate for the second bay. It has stayed powered up continuously for the past two years and completed light duty work as a file server in a small home network (5 machines, both PC and Mac). No complaints at all until a few days ago when it went off-line and unresponsive in the middle of a large file transfer (~250 GB) from the NAS to a machine on the network. Couldn't get it to power down so had to pull the plug. The most credible troubleshooting advice I found online was to check the drives first before other steps like a factory reset. I used a USB to SATA cable to check the drives and sure enough the drive in Bay 2 was toast (failed SMART Test for a read error even though the SMART Status read good). The NAS re-started just fine with the good drive in Bay 1 and Bay 2 empty. All the data was intact and readable. My only complaints are that it came with a Seagate drive that has a reputation for failing (lots of reviewers of the drive saw a lot less service than my 2 years), and the way that it handled the disk failure wasn't graceful. I fully acknowledge that I may not have had the unit configured optimally to handle the disk failure (I'd not upgraded the firmware or set any advanced configurations--I just plugged it in and started copying files and since it always worked I never worried about it). I still have the troubleshooting to do in order to figure out what the unit could have done and should have done when the disk failed. I didn't lose any data, but wonder if it could have been worse if it had happened during a write instead of a read.
Update: Reviewing the logs I see that the NAS started reporting disk errors over 6 weeks prior to the disk failing. If I had configured the unit to send me alerts, I would have gotten an email or a text and would have had an easier time troubleshooting. During all the swapping of disks, I had one disk tray release button freeze and stick hard. It was easy to find a very helpful thread on this in the ReadyNAS Forum. While it appears that it is a design flaw, and there is a re-disign completed, with a little fiddling and some silicone grease I was able to fix mine with no problems.
 Good Product / TERRIBLE Tech Support July 2, 2010
Celeste Boyd (Albuquerque, NM)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been overall pleased with the performance and features of my ReadyNAS Duo, especially after Netgear added a feature to the operating system to directly support Time Machine backups. However, I have been consistently and wildly disappointed with the support offered for the product.
Every time I've contacted tech support, whether by phone or email, I'm convinced that the people on the other end have no idea what they're talking about. It seems they just look things up in the online forums and then regurgitate that information to me. I'm not sure what the point is of even having tech support... it's certainly not helpful. The last time I contacted tech support I got two links to completely irrelevant forum posts and ended up just solving the issue myself, and I've pretty much resolved never to contact them again.
When I first set up the machine and was trying to get remote access to it, it took literally weeks of phone calls and combing through the forums to figure out how to do it...and now it still doesn't really work remotely most of the time! I've pretty much just ignored that because it does what I primarily bought it to do: work with Time Machine to backup my computer, and hold photos/music...but it's pretty annoying that I don't have remote access just because I don't happen to have another couple of spare weeks to figure out the problem.
Bottom line: Good product....TERRIBLE tech support! I consider myself pretty computer saavy, but I'd say if you're not a computer genius, don't count on being able to take advantage of all of the advanced features of the product.
Nice to have June 29, 2010
Prashant Sharma (Boston,USA)
Nice product easy setup and easy to use.
using crashplan to backup the raid drive also, so far so good
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