Both fans offer plenty of cooling capacity, with the ability to scale down speeds (and noise) when not needed. Two other items that will not go unnoticed are the massive cooling fans for the power supply and NAS body. Given the larger size of this model, supporting 6 3.5-inch drives, it’s clear that Netgear wanted to make sure all the power requirements were handled properly. Netgear decided to use a 300-watt ATX power supply inside the ReadyNAS Ultra 6, instead of a custom internal version or AC-power brick. The back is interesting besides just the dual-Ethernet hookups and two USB ports. Netgear also includes a front-mount USB port with a dedicated backup button for quickly pulling content from another source and dumping it into your RAID. The display is also helpful when shutting the NAS down, giving an indication of when to press the power button to do a safe shutdown, or to know free space with a quick glance. Compared to most storage units that only offer blinking LEDs, the ReadyNAS Ultra 6 really sets the bar for what high-end network storage should be. The front of the ReadyNAS Ultra 6 will appease gadget geeks with its LCD display giving information on network status and array integrity among other things. Without even six drives installed the Ultra 6 tips the scales at 15lbs with every component feeling as if it is straight out of an enterprise environment. From the moment you haul this NAS out of the shipping box, you realize this thing is seriously overbuilt. 300W server-rated 100-240V AC power supplyĪt a time when many consumer and even business-grade devices are turning to low-cost materials, the Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 6 stands out with its tough steel body.Power Consumption – 74W Typical (with 6 x 2 TB), 68W idle, 33W disks spun down.Software controlled 120 mm chassis cooling fan.Disk Management – X-RAID2 / RAID 0, 1, 5, 6.Processor – Dual-core 1.66 GHz Intel Atom.All three versions are available diskless, or with varying disk configurations. It’s also worth noting that Netgear also sells two and four bay versions of this NAS as well, dubbed the ReadyNAS Ultra 2 (RNDU2000) and ReadyNAS Ultra 4 (RNDU4000). Of course there’s much more on the software side, we’ll dig into much of that, along with setup and configuration of the ReadyNAS Ultra 6 as we dive in deeper with this review. No matter if you plan on streaming video to an xbox or want to provide double-drive failure redundancy to a small-business workgroup, the ReadyNAS Ultra 6 is prepared for the job. The Ultra 6 supports RAID 0 ,1 ,5 and 6 as well as X-RAID2 automatic volume expansion, iSCSI Support and iSCSI target. This means using cheaper 1TB drives to meet similar space goals, or using 2TB or 3TB drives for gigantic arrays. Of course the main draw to a product like this is the six hard drives it supports, whereas most of the competitors in this space top out at four. Netgear also offers a series of mobile apps to make things like photo viewing on the go a seamless experience.įor more serious tasks, the backup server includes Time Machine support, 2GB for 2 years of online backup services, Memeo Premium Backup, single touch USB backup button for external devices and Rsync server & client. On the media side, the Ultra 6 is DLNA certified and supports Skifta media shifting, Orb transcoding and is compatible with TiVo, all major video game consoles, networked Blu-ray players and of course Netgear’s line of media streamers. Either way Netgear has users covered with support for both types of use cases. The ReadyNAS Ultra 6 is billed as a ‘tweener unit, ready for duty either as a high end unit in the home, or a smaller NAS for the office. This bruiser of a NAS is powered by a dual-core 1.66Ghz Intel Atom processor and 1GB of DDR2 RAM – which is good enough for the Ultra 6 to deliver up to 15 concurrent streams. Today we’re looking at something in between, the ReadyNAS Ultra 6, a six-bay unit that we must say, is built like a tank. Few companies can say they bring Enterprise-level experience to the job when designing home or small business gear, but for Netgear it’s the truth. Netgear offers a tremendous range of storage products – from 248GB enterprise rack units to the little two-bay ReadyNAS designed for home, small office use.
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