Introduction
This is a walk-through of the Management Software for a Netgear ReadyNAS NAS device. This particular walk-through is based upon the version that came with a Netgear ReadyNAS RNDP600U ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Plus unit. This is not a review, but a walk-through of the software features that the ReadyNAS units possess.
Features
To give one an idea of the capabilities of the ReadyNAS software, what follows is a listing of the software feature set that one can make use of with these Netgear NAS units.
| Supported Web Browsers | Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0+, Apple® Safari® 2.0+, Mozilla Firefox® 2.0+, Opera 9.5+ |
| Media Applications | DLNA® 1.5 Certified Supports Skifta™ media shifitng Supports Orb™ transcoding Compatible with TiVo® DVRs Compatible with NETGEAR® Digital Entertainers Compatible with Network DVD/Blu-ray players Compatible with Game consoles (PlayStation® 3, Wii® and Xbox® and Xbox 360®) |
| File Server (File Sharing) | Protocols: CIFs/SMB for Windows®, AFP for Mac OS®, NFS for Linux® and UNIX®, HTTP/S, FTP/S ReadyNAS Remote, ReadyNAS Remote iPhone App, ReadyNAS Photo |
| Backup Server | ReadyNAS® Vault Online Backup (2 GB free for 2 years) Memeo® Premium Backup (3 licenses included) Apple® Time Machine® Support Single Touch USB backup button Rsync server & client External USB storage devices |
| Network Security | Encrypted network logins Secure Socekts Layer (SSL) HTTPS connection FTPS connection Email alerts |
| Disk Management | X-RAID2™ automatic volume expansion Journaling mode Disk monitoring/scrubbing Device health status |
| iSCSI Support | iSCSI target |
| Power Management | Wake on LAN Power on/off scheduler Disk spin-down mode Automatic power on after power outage Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) Support |
| Access Rights Managment | User quota Group quota |
| Administration | RAIDar™ discovery and monitoring agent Frontview™ Smart Wizard Email alerts and events logs Configurable performance options |
| Language Support | Firmware user interface (RAIDiator): English, German, French, Swedish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean |
