Netgear ReadyNAS V2 Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at netgear's ready for home so this
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particular one doesn't come with any discs it does have a three-year warranty
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it's not a business grade product so as far as the hardware spec goes it's got a
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gigabit Network Port but it's got uh 256
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Megs of RAM and then a single core Melville Melville melel Marvel processor
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so I wouldn't expect to be getting like huge you know 100 megabyte second
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transfer speeds or anything like that but honestly it's probably not what you
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need for a home networking device so what does n Gear think you should use
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this for home use storage use I mean
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this is all these are all sort of Fairly self-explanatory things if you guys know
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what a Naas is then you know it's probably good this is the biggest bag of
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do not eat that I think I've ever seen in a box it's huge like look I don't
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like you probably couldn't eat it if you wanted to
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all right moving along to the nas itself um so yeah supports a single drive
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failure pretty much any 2bay Naas as long as it supports raid one should be
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able to support a single drive failure so that is fairly self-explanatory I
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love the way Netgear stuff is built like it's like steel Drive cages I've seen
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nasas that have like plastic cheesy ones
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it actually feels like you know an appliance and it's I think part of it is
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because Netgear does manufacture prograde stuff so it's actually probably
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more expensive for them to retool a cheaper cheaper alternative um solution
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than to just use stuff an existing design they have that's very rugged and
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robust and just give it to the general consumer as well so uh that I appreciate
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mounting wise you unfortunately don't get the benefit of toolless mounting
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because that's not really how prograde stuff works but I I mean how often are
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you really going to be changing the drive in a 2bay NZ unless it dies you
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probably aren't going to be doing any of that
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um it's kind of nice looking actually it looks again it looks very prograde so
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this is the duo V2 it has a USB port on the front it has a on touch backup as
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well as power you've got an activity LED as well as drive indicator LEDs for both
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sides the most of the intake is at the front but there's going to be some air
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intake on the side here as well as on the side here and all of that is going
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to be have air drawn through it with a 92mm fan this is one of the bigger fans
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that I've seen on a 2bay Nas cuz they filled up the almost the entire back of
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the unit with the cooling fan so this is great because it's going to make it
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quieter and it's also going to make sure that your drives aren't going to suffer
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from any excess heat which can cause failures over time it has a Kensington
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lock as well as a hard reset button two USB 3.0 ports on the back this is a nice
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feature as well because it allows you to expand the storage Beyond just those
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internal ports or do things like back your Nas up to something else and then
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store it off site gigabit Lan DC power
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in and let's see what else net gear
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thinks is important about this so they're they're marketing sort of a Naas
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as a private cloud and that really is kind of what it is it's a way to store
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all of your stuff in one place do continuous backups on your machines have
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uh well okay automatic expansion I think is sort of iffy because on a 2bay Nas
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there's not much you can do to automatically expand it other than like
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add more USB but there you go um what's cool is they do have a a mobile app so
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you can remotely access your files as well as mobile access them and they do
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have a private HD photo sharing site so I mean h calling something an HD photo
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is sort of redundant but having a photo sharing site other than Facebook is
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important to people and not everyone's techsavvy enough to set up like their
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own like web server and you know set up
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the authentication that would go into that so something like this where it's more of an appliance type option uh
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could be very convenient and then of course these are the kinds of things that you do have to explain to people
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who don't know that there's something outside of cloud storage you there are
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no hosting fees there are no overage charges there's no actual limitation
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other than buying bigger drives if you
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want more storage or adding more nazes thanks for checking out this unboxing of
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videos I just realized I never showed you guys what's in this brown box I mean
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I probably could have guessed an Ethernet cable hard drive mounting
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screws and a power adapter same things
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that are included with every Nas um and
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then there's also their resource CD which you can of course download off the
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Netgear website and their little quick start guide