So far so good I bought an NV+ 1GB with no drives and populated it with my own seagate 500GB 7200.10 drives, which saved me about $150 over the price of buying a 2TB unit.
Results so far are very good. Installing the drives and getting the NAS up and synchronized was easy and went just like the instructions said. I started at 9pm and by morning the unit was initialized and ready to receive files. Using the X-Raid setting the device shows 1.3TB available for storage.
I set it up to share m...
[Netgear RND4425 NV+ - NAS server review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 08/16/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (23 of 23) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Fast, works great with Windows and Linux It's a little more expensive than other brands I've seen, but I'm very happy with it and didn't mind spending a little more to get exactly what I wanted.
It works great with my Linux and Windows computers at home (and also works with Mac, although I don't have one to test with). For Windows you map a drive through Windows Explorer, for Linux you run "mount" using NFS.
I was able to share and use the same files/directories on both operating systems without any problems. Th...
[Netgear RND4425 NV+ - NAS server review by JohnK can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | JohnK | | Review Date: | 11/30/2007 | | User Location: | Kirkland, WA USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (18 of 18) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Buy this one After some really bad experiences with other Network Attached Storage, I finally spent the money and got this one. It is expensive but it really does the job. I use it to back up all my documents including my photostock and I really need something I can trust. This one has real RAID, so if/when it loses a harddrive, you can re-build it. Well engineered, excellent software, and a real manual. One minor complaint, the fan may be a little too loud to use in your media room.
[Netgear RND4425 NV+ - NAS server review by Colin Harrison can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Colin Harrison | | Review Date: | 10/19/2007 | | User Location: | Brookfield, CT United States | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (14 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Very Pleased! Easy, Quick, Safe It was a tough quest to find the right NAS. I tried a couple that were weak. But this NAS is by far the best I have had. It was a sigh of relief during the setup. Easy, straight forward, smarter system. I have been using it regularly for a month and I have so very happy with it.
As a print server, media server, it works great as well! Most important, this baby is expandable. I suggest buying the 1TB and expanding down the road since drives are always cheaper as time goes by.
[Netgear RND4425 NV+ - NAS server review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 09/04/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
88% (16 of 18) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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has a major software bug I own a large number of NetGear (formerly Infrant) NAS devices. After NetGear bought the company, they came out with a new version of the embedded OS of those devices that looks like it is mostly just a cosmetic update that changes the name Infrant to NetGear.
Unfortunately, it also introduces a very serious and reproducible bug for Apple Macintosh users. When you mount one of the NAS boxes running the new version of the OS under AppleShare, a file copied to the NAS box always gets to...
[Netgear RND4425 NV+ - NAS server review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/01/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
83% (30 of 36) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great idea, but flawed We needed shared storage with redundancy, and the ability to back itself up to an externally attached drive. Both key features of this product. The setup interface is simple and easy to use. It has lightning fast connections to our Macs with 1000baseT. And it looks cool! Unfortunately we've experienced two major issues with it since purchase: it fails to backup to our remote USB drive (one that is on the list of acceptable according to Netgear), and we're having issues with our shares ever since...
[Netgear RND4425 NV+ - NAS server review by Keith Smerak can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Keith Smerak | | Review Date: | 10/25/2007 | | User Location: | Boonton, NJ USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
70% (7 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Easy NAS and RAID setup The ReadyNAS product was very easy to setup, add additional drives, reconfigure, etc. This is much easier than trying to setup Maxtor shared storage. I would recommend this product even though it is a little more expensive but the ease of use is worth it. This is a perfect home RAID/NAS device to protect your digital photos, music, movies, and important data.
[Netgear RND4425 NV+ - NAS server review by M. Wisor "Home IT Guy" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | M. Wisor "Home IT Guy" | | Review Date: | 09/29/2007 | | User Location: | TX | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (7 of 7) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great Device Until NetGear Bought The Company This device is very functional, great pricing, robust, full of features and add-ons. Maybe not the fastest NAS on the block, but for home use, holding huge amounts of data, and streaming media back to us, was always great. Reasonable web-based interface as well. Right up until NetGear took over and brought out the latest firmware upgrade. Never had a problem before, but this upgrade, which should not touch your data volume, messes with the volume format without warning, irreversibly, and large n...
[Netgear RND4425 NV+ - NAS server review by David Berkman can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 4.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | David Berkman | | Review Date: | 04/22/2008 | | User Location: | San Francisco, CA USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
85% (6 of 7) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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great product. with a few execptions Overall I really like this product. It is fast and easy to use. The exception to that is the initial load. It took 2 and a half days of nearly constant transferring to load up 1.2 T, I can't remember the exact speeds but it was double what I expected. The only other issue I have had is with the print server. I have a HP printer which like many of todays printers requires a separate software install. If you Can Not have windows auto install your printer without downloading additional drivers, you...
[Netgear RND4425 NV+ - NAS server review by J. Pfeister can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | J. Pfeister | | Review Date: | 12/21/2007 | | User Location: | San Francisco, CA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (2 of 2) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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A piece of junk I brought this and 4 500 GB WD drives to backup my system. It hanged twice this morning and a dozen times since I purchased couple month ago. I am not heavy user, only turn it on when I need it, run a day or two continuously. I am usually just copying a lot of small files (20000 files ranging from 20KB to 300MB).
Everytime it hangs, there is no way to shut it down except unplug the power. This will trigger a filesystem check, which take hours. Worst yet, I had one occasion that t...
[Netgear RND4425 NV+ - NAS server review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 04/05/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
50% (2 of 4) Users Found This Review Helpful |