NETGEAR ReadyNAS 214 - Media Hub - 4 Bay Diskless Consumer Desktop NAS (RN21400-100AJS)

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Brand	NETGEAR
Digital storage capacity	24 TB
Hardware interface	USB 3.0

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Quad core Cortex A15 1.4GHz processor with 2GB of RAM and up to 200MB/s read and 160MB/s write speeds - 2.5" or 3.5" SATA/SSD drives supported (Maximum storage of 32TB)
Full HD 1080p wire speed streaming and transcoding and Near-0 loss throughput anti-virus built-in
Dual Gigabit Ethernet - Up to 2x throughput in Link Aggregation mode and advanced BTRFS file system that delivers 5 levels of complete data protection
Play Plex on ReadNAS - Please visit bit.ly/ReadyNAS-Plex-Setup for setup instructions
3 Years Warranty on Chassis

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Brand

NETGEAR

Series

RN21400-100NES

Item Model Number

RN21400-100NES

Product Dimensions

13.21 x 20.32 x 22.1 cm; 4.02 Kilograms

Item Dimensions L x W x H

13.2 x 20.3 x 22.1 centimetres

Colour

Black

Processor Count

Computer Memory Type

DDR3L-1600 SDRAM

Flash Memory Size

128

Power Source

Voltage

12 Volts

Batteries

2 AA batteries required.

Item Weight

4.02 kg

Manufacturer

Netgear Inc

ASIN

B015S0Y50C

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

1 October 2015

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388 ratings

4.3 out of 5 stars

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47,409 in Computers (See Top 100 in Computers)
40 in Network Attached Storage (NAS) Enclosures

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ReadyNAS brings best-of-breed technologies and features with simple easy-to-use functionality. With up to 40TB of storage, download speeds up to 200MBps and full HD 1080p transcoding capability you'll have the ultimate networked attached storage for your media-rich home.

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G P.

Great - when it works...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 March 2017

Style: 4-BayVerified Purchase

I bought this NAS to run a Plex server and store all my music and family photo collections. For the most part it's been good.
Netgear however apparently have a major issue rolling out reliable firmware updates to the device. I purchased it in September 16. Less than 2 weeks in and a firmware update knocked out Plex Media Server. When eventually resolved weeks later, it appears there were missing libraries in the Netgear installation package...
Sometime between then and now I got the pop-up to say there was a software update available for the NAS. I have ignored it, thinking that if I left it long enough any issues with the new update would be ironed out. Well last night I took the plunge and updated to 6.6.1 and now the NAS shows no IP address on the front panel and I have been unable to connect to it since...
That's 2 updates and a 100% fail rate. First update took out Plex, 2nd has taken the device offline.
Also be aware that even though it has a years warranty, you only get 90 days complimentary support. So even though my device is just nearing 6 months old, I'd have to pay for Netgear support. There is a community support option, but you are at the mercy of someone replying to your post.

Update 20/02/19. Any further updates gave went smoothly and it has been operating well.

35 people found this helpful

Anigel

Can be quite fiddly to get working

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 June 2020

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I'm no slouch with computers having spent decades working in tech support and managing systems from the home level up to enterprise infrastructure including raid systems. Having said that I found setting this system up to be very frustrating and had some serious niggles that were major sources of annoyance. Once it was up and running everything seems fine but those initial headaches really soured my experience of it.

On initial setup it insists you change the password, which is a great practise for security, however it promptly forgot it so after it rebooted as part of the wizard it would no longer let me log in with the old or the new password, meaning an immediate factory reset to regain access. I know what you are thinking, perhaps I typed the password wrong when I was setting it up, I initially thought the same, yet this happened 3 times in a row!

Firmware updates. After I had finally managed to get access again I had set a new password and rebooted and still had to use the old password to get in, it asked for a firmware update. Again it had to download and perform this update multiple times before it actually realised yes it had performed the update. Yes in each occasion it was updating from the same old version to the same new version.

Share naming. I set up an array and shared it with the network only to find it was maxed out at around 10 percent of the maximum storage capacity. Eventually through trial and error I found out that if your NAS box and the share you are trying to use are named the same thing it causes problems, as soon as I changed the name of the share to something else it allowed me to go past 10% capacity.

Is it working now? Well apart from taking what seems like an inordinately long time ( as long as 30 seconds some times) to spin up the drives and start sending data if it hasn't been accessed in a while, yes it does seem to work ok now.

9 people found this helpful

"mobharoochi"

I have 2 of these

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2020

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The reason I looked at these is because I've had a ReadyNAS NV+ V2 for about 6 years and it was getting a little long in the tooth.

I bought my first one of these in July 2019 and was really satisfied with the performance and usability. I got the second one in March 2020, and have been using the two as a pair of fault tolerant storage systems.

This is an excellent product for home use, and even thought the spec here says it can go up to 24 TB, it has been designed to take larger disks to accommodate more storage. According to the Readynas Hard Disk Compatibility list, it can take up to 4x16TB disks.

The two I have are configured with 4x4TB and 4x6TB drives respectively, and I've found the devices to be very easy to configure and very reliable.

I have also set them up to be Time Machines for my Macs and they work really well for that purpose. You can configure how much disk space you want to assign to the Time Machine Backups, and also configure both shared and private Time Machines.

Overall I'm really happy with the RN214s that I have

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Mr Peter K shersby

Good.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 December 2017

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Simple to get up and running, simple to set up personal cloud and access from phone etc ehen away from home. I added 12Tb of storage in a raid 5. If you have a netgear swich you can bond the two ethernet ports, even with a normal switch/hub you can still use both to improve load balancing. Not too keen ont he documetnation for backups using RSYNC, most is for an older version of the operating system. You do need to make sure you get the latest firmware updates. For the hardcore users you can enable SSH root access and that gives you the full power of the linux distribution on which it runs. I have two in separate building, one backing up the other, one running subversion and mysql and the other offiering a web service too - you can do all that just picking apps off the menus. I have all my music, videos etc on it and DLNA to TV, hifi etc. My main use is to hold my photographic works and that runs to a few Tb. The apps screen offers Resilio Sync and that provides a simple (and free) means to set up syncronised folders across multiple PCs, tablets...
My only gripe is that I has a few "slow downs" accesing shared folders from my PC. and I keep turning up out of date examples and documents when I search for help. Updates improved things, but then I found out I needed to adjust the paging fiile on the PC - strange but it worked.

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oldiebutgoodie

Very loud. Sounded like a concrete mixer on startup. Returned immediately

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2018

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Installed my two 3GB WD RED drives with little difficulty and switched on to a loud noise. After a while the noise reduced but was still totally unacceptable. The unit was a factory refurbished one which should have been checked before being sold. Seems fairly clear that the fan was on the way out, the WD drives were silent in my previous NAS. I let the syncing process run in the hope that the noise would cease but no luck. When the OS was up I selected each of the three different fan modes but none of them made any difference. Returned for a refund.

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NETGEAR ReadyNAS 214 - Media Hub - 4 Bay Diskless Consumer Desktop NAS (RN21400-100AJS)

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