I have a ReadyNAS NV and I am very happy with it. It is a good unit, very robust and reliable. You have read all the good points on their website.
So the only bad points I have noticed are that it has loud fan noise which never shuts off, so you cannot put it in your listening area, gotta LAN it somewhere else. If you like getting nightly upgrades from slim, you cannot do that with ReadyNAS. You have to wait until slim makes an official upgrade release, then infrant will compile that into a Raidiator Add-In upgrade. I waited a long time to get all the bug fixes that came with slimserver 6.2.2. But infrant had it available within a couple days. When 6.3 came out, I asked for the upgrade twice before I saw it on their support page, took more than a month. The speed of the NAS webserver is adequate, but not as fast as running locally on a P4 PC. It might take you 3-4 seconds longer than a PC to pick a song or adjust the volume using NAS instead of PC as slimserver host. Also, after a power outage, NAS loses its DCHP license from external (Linksys) DHCP server, so my link to slimserver changes. I guess it doesn't know enough to ask DHCP for the same address like windows client does. This is easily solved with a UPS, which is a good idea anyway, or maybe using the internal DHCP server in the NAS, I haven't used it yet. Overall I think it is worth the money, I got it with one 250GB drive for ~$1000. The applications that come with it are very useful and well developed, backup, ftp, http, dhcp servers, etc. Rich -- richidoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ richidoo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3097 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25727 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
