Over All Rating Reviews :
i bought the cheap 500 gb one and replaced it with 2x seagate 7200.11 1 TB disks. my home is basically about 5 mac laptops... the readynas duo is connected to my DIR 655 draft n router... performance is EXCELLENT on Lan connect and wifi connection (n and g).
streaming itunes or HD video (1080p) is not even an issue.
does this thing survive disk crashes? absolutely. one of the 1 TB disk failed within 2 days... lucky the 2nd 1TB had the exact copy of the 1 TB disk (thanks to X-RAID technology by readynas). i had to return it to seagate and they gave me a new one. plugged that in the drive and the NAS started copying the other drive immediately with absolutely no performance degrading.
if you are a mac user (i'm running 10.5.6 on all the macs and couple of 10.4.11 machines) you will love it. there's a widget that you can download from the readynas user group site. works very nice. tells you temperature of both drives, how much it's full, the IP address, FAN speed and warnings of drive failures. EXCELLENT WIDGET. a must for anyone who already owns one of these.
if a friend with a windows machine comes over i can just click on a button the readynas frontview (browser based settings control) and turn on file transfer protocols for windows users.
supports jumbo frames (along with my DIR 655 router). streams all my photos, music, movies (mostly divx, ac3, h.264, etc.. no MKV) to my xbox 360... not a problem. the xbox never stops to buffer... prob because my router LAN port supports gigabit ethernet and so does the readynas duo... file transfer speeds are blindingly fast. make sure your running on cat 5e or cat 6 cables to take full advantage of everything readynas duo has to offer.
maybe one or two cons: 1) time machine is not officially support i think... there's like a semi hack on the readynas duo forum to force it to support time machine... to be honest i don't really use time machine because i always back up my files on the ready nas duo... don't really see the use of time machine if ur a person who regularly backs up
2) some of the user add/remove things are confusing.... i only have like 3 accounts and a guest account... 3) NO JBOD SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!! i know this is a NAS backup drive for regular consumers so I can understand why they didn't include this option for users... but hey i would still like to have the option to turn off XRAID and use it as JBOD!
overall i've been using it for about a year now... and IT'S WORKING FLAWLESSLY.
one big issue that came up recently is that seagate has been having major FIRMWARE PROBLEMS WITH SEAGATE 7200.11 DRIVES... the firmware have to be updated or you'll have a PAPER WEIGHT on your desk. TO THIS DATE... JAN 30 2009, THERE'S NO WAY FOR YOU TO UPDATE THE FIRMWARE ON THE SEAGATE DRIVES THROUGH THE READYNAS. you MUST TAKE OUT THE DRIVES ONE BY ONE AND HOOK IT UP TO A PC OR MAC PRO WITH SATA SUPPORT. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO UPDATE THE FIRMWARE. SO IF YOU HAVE A HOUSE WITH ALL MACBOOK OR MBPS AND NO PC DESKTOPS.. YOU ARE OUT OF LUCK. it's like a time bomb... so sad.
THE READYNAS DUO DESERVES 10 STARS. it's a sexy looking machine with great software. looks super duper sturdy and will last me for 20+ years. i took away 1 star for no time machine support and no JBOD SUPPORT :(
edit:
forgot to mention about the torrent download support. this is very cool if you download lots of torrents but don't want to leave your computer on. works excellent.
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