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Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ RND4000 4 Bay Gigabit NAS $199 (Free Shipping)

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Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ RND4000 4 Bay Gigabit NAS $199 (Free Shipping)

BONUS $30 VISA card by redemption from Netgear. Valid until the 31st July 2012.

Will also do the free shipping on any HDDs bought with the NAS.

Sells for $400-$550 at most retailers.

Network Attached Storage with 4 Bays. Excellent as a high capacity SME or home file server, media streaming server, or backup device. See http://www.readynas.com/?cat=4

Supports X-Raid with drive redundancy and automatic expansion. For example add 4 x 2TB HDDs to provide 5.5TB of usable capacity with protection against a single drive failure (if one drive fails, no data is lost). Start with any number of drives, for example add just one 2TB drive to start and add more over time as needed with automatic volume expansion via X-Raid.

Available in shop or with free shipping to most locations Australia wide when mentioning this advertisement (please refer to ozbargains in comments field if ordering on the web and we will manually remove the delivery charge before processing).

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  • I have had one of these for a few years. Getting long in the tooth read/write wise but excellent build, very reliable and very low power, particularly with WD green power drives. I use it as a Time Machine for my Apple gear.

  • +1

    why it show me $25 delivery when i want to pay via CC?

    • (please refer to ozbargains in comments field if ordering on the web and we will manually remove the delivery charge before processing).

  • Any good deals on 2tb drives for this unit?

  • Can anyone recommend suitable RAM to chuck in this to upgrade it from 256mb to ~1-2gb? Is it simply a case of grabbing some ddr2 at the same time as purchasing the unit, or is there a certain type of RAM required (eg notebook RAM etc?)

    • +1

      You can take the top off and upgrade the RAM I did it to mine years ago (helped when using it as a torrent box). I note you don't need to do this for normal use.

      It is sodimm, 95% sure DDR2, and from memory the speed of the RAM it included was slow, but it took more common higher speed 1G SODIMM fine. I just used what we had in stock at the time but I can't say if its fussy with compatibility.

      I suggest you have a look on the ReadyNAS site, a lot of information there about how people tweak these boxes.

      • its ddr only, not ddr2, makes for expensive 512/1gb modules

      • +1

        I stopped being lazy and looked it up — DDR-2700 (333) SODIMM. Works with DDR3200 (400)

  • I was confused by the term "X-Raid", so I looked it up. It's not RAID 1+0 or RAID 10, it's a proprietary Netgear thing which means "expandable RAID". Apparently it allows you to add a HDD to the existing RAID set, and it will re-create the RAID set to include the new drive. From the Netgear webpage, it looks like one drive is the parity drive, so it is RAID 4 or possibly RAID 5, with automatic expandability as an added feature.

    http://www.readynas.com/?cat=54

    • +1

      Think of it as a propriety layer that sites over the top of the usual raid protocols.

      With 2 drives it will mirror, add additional and it will rebuild the array with what is essentially raid 5, so you always have one drive redundancy. Unlike with standard raid protocols its able to rebuild the array on the fly as you add drives, or if you switch in larger drives in the future (one at a time and let each rebuild) it will resize the array automatically.

  • How does this compare to the HP microserver that's on here every so often? Worth waiting for one of them to pop up or will this be fine for streaming movies/music to a couple of laptops and a desktop? Gigabit and wireless n of course….

    • Anyone…?

      • +1

        Last I checked, the cheapest Proliant was $299 plus shipping; so for your purposes, this or something like it would be your best bet ATM!

    • this is a fine product for the $ and being a netgear NAS and streaming and general sharing. a N40L has more smarts to be a bit more advanced. If you are after a set and forget product, then this is it. You still need to fork out for the HDD's but the quality is good, similar products are good. It has UPS support as well (to power down NAS in case of a power outage) and has gigabit network port. If your needs are basic. Get this (factor in extra $ for HDDs) if your needs are technically advanced, get the N40L.

    • +1

      N40L would be the best bang for the bucks if you:
      1. want a HTPC (just add a decent ati vga card with HDMI output and upgrade the ram as well, get windows 7 installed) and a "file server" to share media files within the house at the same time.
      2. Not worrying much about the backup of the files
      3. Easier for resale (at the moment, because you have potential buyers from both NAS and HTPC sides).
      4. maximum of 6 drives (if you are going to add a HDD into the optical drive bay and firmware updated is needed, plus adding a drive from the e-sata port), not including the usb drives you might be able to added…

      From what I have seen, N40L is equivalent, if not higher power consumption comparing to this NAS.

    • The microserver will stomp all over it speed-wise, especially if you install a Linux distro like CentOS and configure/set it up properly, since they have more powerful CPUs.
      However, the N40Ls are no longer cheap, so you might be waiting a long time for a good deal.

      As has already been stated, the speed will be more than sufficient to stream HD movies.

      I am considering this, even though I already have a microserver w/8GB ram running fine. I just can't see the need for another NAS at this point in time.

  • 2% surcharge if using a credit card…

    Ugh.. I should have read all of the comments before buying.. I didn't realise this was a version 1..

  • Can anybody please advise if I can incorporate surveillance camera(s) with this? (same as QNaP)
    I'm going through Netgear website but unable to find any meaningful info

  • +3

    Older tech, expensive RAM (for upgrade), no USB 3.0.
    It might be a low initial investment, but I am not one of those people who upgrade every 2 years.
    Spend enough so you atleast get what the current tech is these days !
    WIll have a look into the newer model of this box.

    Thanks REP, for participanting in the discussion.

    • Can you suggest a decent average model for home use which includes streaming video files.

  • few questions

    Can I plug this straight into my router, and then I can access files from any computer/tv?

    will this work with mac and pc at the same time?

    • +1

      Yes & Yes. NAS = Network attached storage = multiuser.

      • lovely!

        so this is a solid solution for allowing everyone in the family to access all the movies I download on my mac, while they all use pc?

    • +1

      Yes although you will need to set it up for upnp etc

      • ok, and is this easy?

        • +1

          No idea i dont use this NAS, perhaps someone else who has one can comment.

      • +4

        Yes, its a protocol built into the NAS and turned on by default. In fact you don't need that on, but it can help devices find media across your network without need to type in an address

        It also natively supports various apple specific protocols.

        When set up, the NAS will provision a share that you can access much as you can use a drive letter on your computers. That includes Macs, PCs, media streaming devices etc.

        For example, on a PC you might use an address like \MyNAS\MyMovies in the same way you might now use C:\MyMovies

        Difference is you can access that folder from a number of machines at the same time.

        The kids could be watching a movie stored there in one room on a PC while you could be uploading a new movie to the same location from your Mac while at the same time your work desktop machine could be running its daily scheduled task to back itself up to a different share on the NAS, say \MyNAS\MyBackups\MydesktopAcronisImage

        • sounds great, is 4 bays over kill for mostly media streaming?

          also, are you running any specials on hard drives? I would be inclined to maybe pick up a few 1tb drives to use with this

        • +2

          4 Bay depends on how much capacity you need.

          With 4 x 2TB drives you get 5.4TB with redundancy. That is quite a lot, but I suppose how much you need depends on how much you need to store in terms of backups and media. ie my guess you are not creating full image backups of your PCs, its a good idea and a lot of NAS capacity makes it easy. Check products like acronis home 2012 http://www.acronis.com.au/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

          I think our prices are competitive on HDDs.

          Note we include the full manufacturers warranty on our gear, including the HDDs (most IT retailers seem to have dropped to 1 year on everything to cut costs nowadays. We by comparison hold buffer stock to swap out on most products):

          http://www.computeralliance.com.au/parts.aspx?MainCategoryID…

        • thanks for the replies!

          and so it is wiser to get a few 1tb drives instead of a 2tb as you can assign each of these different tasks? is that right?

        • +1

          No.

          What you normally do is create one large array which is spreda across multiple drives, then provision one or more shares on that array. You can limit the amount that anyone can write to each share if you wish to reserve enough space for particular use. The shares look like and can be treated like separate drives, but they do not map directly to physical drives.

          eg you could set a media share to store movies, another for say business files, and put a password on the business files share to make sure the kids can't access it. All wodul share the same disk array. If you wanted to you could then limit how much space can be consumed by each share.

          1TB drives are fine to use, if you need less capacity but value wise probably better with 2TB drives. eg start with 2x2TB to give you 2TB capacity with redundancy and add extra drives later when you need the space. Each incremental drive would add a little less than a extra 2TB

        • Ok, I guess my main concern is losing data, but from my understanding this will support raid 5?

          would I be best to get 4x 1TB drives and using raid 5?

        • If you are worried about loosing data you need to have a separate and preferably offline storage to back up to.

          There are so many ways for Raid 1/5 to fail leaving you without data.

          IMO Raid is meant for people who want uptime and have the cash to easily swap hard drives without waiting for warranty. (Or have a fast warranty purchased from their supplier)

        • +4

          Very true.

          As long as you add 2+ drives to this 4 bay unit, you will be protected against one drive failure, so it lowers risk of data drive somewhat, but not even close to 0 risk.

          You will not be protected against a power surge that fries the lot, theft, or some passing kid deciding to climb the network cable only to find a very heavy NAS smashing to the floor.

          There is no such thing as a safe single place to store your data.

          You can use the built in backup function to copy the key files on this NAS to a external HDD or use the usual range of other techniques same as you shodul be on your computers already.

          What I do is assess what is important to backup and then set an approrpiate system in place. Critical small files that are easy to back up, like documents, the family photos etc I back up 3 or 4 ways, including cloud based backups. At the other end of the importance spectrum, the odd video that maybe I will want to watch again sometime sits on the NAS and if I get unlucky and lose it, well, no big deal (but that is where the redundancy is nice, reduces this risk cheaply to a more acceptable level so you can be more comfortable about being lazy with lss important data)

  • Are these easily chainable? So I could purchase 3 or 4 of them and use a single ethernet/power cable?

    If not does anyone know any great alternatives? I found unraid from an above comment however I'm unsure where that store is based so shipping to Brisbane could be hugely costly.

    Anyone know of anything else for holding lots of HDDs on a budget?

    • Chainable?
      Each unit has one power supply input and one network connection
      if you're going to 'chain' them then you will need one power point and one network connection on your router/switch per unit
      so 3 of these units will need 3 power point plugs and 3 ports on your router/switch
      then you'll also need 3 available ip addresses on your network, plus I'd probably set them up as static assigned ip's on the router and give them hostnames so you can tell them apart [SuperBox, MegaBox, Ultrabox.. Lol]
      But if you want to use all of their hard drive space together as one big redundant disk, this can probably be done, but is not worth the time or effort or network bandwidth to do this, if this is what you meant by 'chaining' them

      • +1

        Simple answer is no.

        I'm assuming you are thinking of the high end NAS/SAN devices which provide for a increase in capacity by adding modules and they display on the network as a single device. Even then, you need power for each unit!

        The sort of gear we sell in the SME market and have good results with include the promise SANS:
        http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_series.aspx?region=en-US…

        "Scale up to 112 Hard Disk Drive via VessJBOD Expansion units". These still run into many $1000, and thats before you add the drives.

        On a very tight budget I suppose an old PC with a few extra cheap software based SATA controllers lets you pack a ton of HDDs in. Not exactly what I would recommend if the data is important.

  • Is that only me with $25 delivery to victoria with cc payment??? REP….mind to answer????

    • As per the original post "(please refer to ozbargains in comments field if ordering on the web and we will manually remove the delivery charge before processing)."

      and my followup explanation

      "For now, yes, freight will appear but it will be manually removed before processing. You won't be charged freight unless you are in a expensive area to ship to and then we will confirm freight with you before processing the order"

      • thanks and it is good to updated the on the description, as some ozB wont read all comments :), just imho

  • hi rep, how soon you will ship this item? and how many days you reckon to deliver in melbourne metro, reason asking is I am moving my house this weekend, should i put the current address or new one.

    And how is this redemption works, do we need to claim or netgear will re-imburse $30 to our card? coulnt find that info, rep do you mind putting the netgear link referred to the redemption. Thanks

    • I try not to promise shipping times as our warehouse can get a bit clogged up which can delay shipping and couriers screw up.

      Having said that most often orders from today would ship tomorrow and then to Melbourne, probably another 2 days for the courier to deliver.

      Again, we do not promise shipping or delivery times, delays are possible, so use this as a broad estimate.

      • my experience was 3 business days, pretty good actually considering i paid bank deposit. might have been 1 day delay because of my payment coming in

  • This one is an old model and is using a 280Mhz processor, while the latest one is Intel Atom 1.6Ghz, the transfer rate is double on the new one.

    • +2

      This has been covered in good detail in previous comments.

  • HI Rep, i accidenlty clicked twice and charged for delivery twice, I only need 1 unit, can you please fix this, order number

    Computer Alliance Order ID 48799
    Computer Alliance Order ID 48800

    • I will pass it on to the guys that process orders. Normally they would query any unusual orders like that in any case so shodul not be a problem

  • see here, if you want to know what version it is…

    very confusing, V1 , V1 rev v2, and V2

    http://blog.lazyidealist.com/2012/06/netgear-readynas-3tb-is…

  • Awesome price. However, I'll wait to get another QNAP to compliment my TS-410 when they show up at the right price. CA, TS-412 at the same price? Hint, hint :) Probably wishful thinking…

    • Wouldn be nice to see some QNAP NAS on special.

    • I like the Qnaps, but unfortunatly its not a brand we do in large volume at the moment so no discounts!

  • Really Good price REP.
    The ReadyNAS raid5 can grow horizotally which is great.

    Any chance of having a sale price for the 4Bay Ultra series ???

    • +1

      Probably not the 4 bay, maybe the 6 bay, we got them at a very good price and the price we have them at on the web already is a very good price but there is a little bit of scope to move on that. They are a very fast unti and you can pack up to 15TB into them, since as a backup NAS for our larger sites and for various other roles.

      We need to keep a certain number in reserve for our corporate clients, we use them for our full IT infrastructure managed accounts and we have a ongoing major roll out there (also us the NV+ on some of those) and I think we have less than 100 left of the 6 bays. I will check how many our managed services guys need and decide if we can spare a few do a better price once this deal has run off.

  • can this run the drives as just a bunch of disk to utilise mass storage?

    • yes it can.
      in raid5 can have N+1 redundancy ie. 4x 2TB = 1 logical drive of 6Tb (or a few logical drive total to 6Tb) and tolerate 1 drive failure without lossing data.
      can also do raid0 ie. 4x 2TB = 1 logical drive of 8Tb but 1 disk goes and loss everything…

  • I ordered one - just curious how the $30 redemption on VISA works?

    Cheers

    Richard

  • Does it let you access data via web ie internet? And is it possible to share a particular pic folder with friends and family?

    Also does anyone know is this unit fairly quite like synology or Qnap?

    Rep prob you should include some compatible HDD deals along with this including free shipping.

    • +1

      Simple answer is yes, though I have not played with that feature myself. Take a look at the ReadyNAS site for details. There is a general way to access shares remotely and a specific feature to support photos in addition to that. You need ot be careful with security if you turn on a feature like that, set proper passwords.

      A cut and paste off my unit:

      "ReadyNAS Photos, allows sharing of photos from the ReadyNAS to your family and friends on the Internet. You will need to install the ReadyNAS Photos application on your PC or Mac to import your photos to the ReadyNAS for sharing. For more information on ReadyNAS Photos, please visit www.readynas.com/photos "

      As for HDD deals, this NAS deal doesn't make us any money (of course!) and margins on HDDs, given we do proper full warranty on them, hold buffer stock to swap out faults, is slim but at least above cost by a few $. If you need drives, given the warranty we have been doing free freight on drives old with the NAS, we should be competitive.

      You can see why there is not much point dropping prices to cost or below. We have many starving kittens to feed around these parts, need to make a $ on something! Life is tough in IT Retail (signal the violin).

  • doesn't matter

  • v2 was selling for $250 before

    http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/64709

    Missed that deal :(

  • From memory this model suffered from an underpowered CPU which mean the IO was CPU bound. Means the gigabit ethernet is no where near utilised so don't expect a super fast box. However, for 199 your getting some cheap kit.

    • This is often the case with NAS.

      This is why I don't bother with them.

  • Gee, that was quick, ordered on monday afternoon, got the box on wednesday 11 am. Thanks a lot.

  • I received this email from the sales guy when i sent an email asking the shipping to be remove since i heard the deal from OzB.

    'As per the ad placed:

    “Available in shop or with free shipping to most locations Australia wide when mentioning this advertisement (please refer to ozbargains in comments field if ordering on the web and we will manually remove the delivery charge before processing).”'

    So do i get the free shipping or not? since i forgot to put the OZbargain in comment field. Order ID 48936

    edited

    • Yes you will get the free freight - I've made a comment on the order for you.

  • I have two of these units for media, photos and backup, with 4 users, 6 computers and a media player accessing them. Transfer speeds are quite adequate for HD on my TV - Gigabit LAN
    Netgear ReadyNAS NV+, 4x Samsung HD154UI 1.5TB Silencer series SATA2
    Netgear ReadyNAS NV+, 4x WD WD20EARX 2TB SATA3
    APC UPS
    One is upgraded to 1Gb memory, performance is enhanced slightly.
    I bought another just for spares - a power supply in Aust looks to be around $185 + shipping.

    Penting, I ordered for the website, paid via Bpay and got the $199 price no problems.

    Thanks to the guys at Computer Alliance.

  • edit. Nevermind. Figured it out.

  • Bit the bullet even though I didnt need another NAS (Already have 2), couldn't pass up the opportunity at this price and ordered one on Monday night, received a confirmation on Tuesday that the shipping cost was removed and sent to be picked and packed. Received confirmation sms and email from TNT today that it will arrive tomorrow.

    Thanks Computer Alliance for the speedy process!!!

  • is it these two similar ones or different versions

    http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/netgear-rnd4000-readyn…

    • This link is to the same unit - compare the specs.

  • This post has got the most thorough rep explanations on OzB, ever.

    • unfortunately this post has needed it….
      They refused my credit card because it didn't match what they looked up on white pages (WTF has a whitepages listing anyhow?!?)

      • They rejected my card too. Didn't realise it was because they check the whitepages..which I purposely refuse to have my name listed on.

        Either way I just used bpay. As long as I don't get double charged i'm fine with it.

      • Just realised today they rejected my card too

  • Sold out. :(

    • its still in stock.

      • Now it says that…

        • +1

          Ran out of stock briefly as all stock was allocated to current orders, more stock is here though.

        • Fast delivery! I ended up paying by Bpay. Received noon today in Sydney. Thanx!

        • anyway, what I've read of the doc I can't find the (default) user name and password to access the device itself? i.e. the hdd or a usb drive. (The login and pw for the particular IP address is admin/netgear1)

        • ignore all that. After the f/w upgrade it appears without need for login. Good stuff!

  • Hi. There's a lot of comments about speed but not much on power usage. This being always on will this chew up lots of power? Any way of minimising power usage when not in use? Will it cause any damage if it's powered off at nights? Thanks.

    • the unit goes to low power mode and the housing uses very low power usage… on average it'll cost you around $5 a month to run given the wattage usage (with 4 discs in a standard low usage house). your local electricity costs may vary…..

      • That number is about right if its left running 24/7 and you remember to set HDDs to power down when not in use.

        Of course you can simply power it up and down when needed.

        Note it also has a schedule function to automatically power it up and down, eg you can schedule it to turn off at say midnight and power back up in the morning, or whenever you need it on.

  • My only gripe about this great deal is that TNT has lazy drivers that leave a "missed you" card without knocking on a door or ringing a bell. 2 business days for re-delivery. Useless!

    • +1

      Yeah doods TNT are crap. At least TRY to ring the doorbell first before assuming nobody is at home, as if they "missed you".

    • When you have a moment can you email me the details of this as when this happens TNT charge us double freight so we do like to have a word with them when their drivers pull these sort of stunts - [email protected].

  • ignore… brain freeze

  • my order is ID 49073, can you please remove the shipping charge and adjust the 2% surcharge

  • +1

    no deal.. got a synology a couple weeks ago … ABSOLUTELY amazing …. my readynas is a paperweight now..

    • Are you willing to sell it to me?

    • And how much did you pay?

  • i live in WA & TNT use Road Express, so it will take about a week to arrive. Just got an email saying my consignment will arrive on the 20th July.

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