Hi, this is PCRoger. I appear to show you on this short video the new Neatgear ReadyNAS NVX and compared it to the little bit older unit that you can see here on the left, the Neatgrear ReadyNAS NV+. Both of these units are still current models available for sale.
Neatgear CSN for a little bit different market they see the NV+ on the left is being for the home and consumer market and they see the NVX here on the right is more for the SMB or small-medium business market. The machines are both very similar in a way, but they have some important differences I’d like to point out. The appearance of course different a little bit more updated here on the right. They both still have the display on the bottom that will give the IP address and some status and then it goes dark when it’s not in use, and by merely pressing the power button when it’s running it will show you that what’s on the display.
Both units have the swing outdoor with access to the drives inside maximum of four drives. Now Neatgear sees the importance of using enterprise style of class drives in these machines and they are the Seagate Enterprise class drive. The hard drive carrier has not changed too much. They actually appear to be interchangeable.
The one difference that I can point out here for the NVX on the right is they now have this little lock and that’s why you can see the camera that will prevent you from opening or unlocking the drive while its all in place and just slide that over and unlock. It’s a kind of a nice feature. Kind of from the top the couple of differences in the NVX on the right is it does now come with more memory standard the NV+ on the left only came up with 256 Mega RAM and I’d do another video showing how to upgrade that too 1 gig, but the NVX does come with 1gig which is a nice feature.
The NVX has ice support which may not mean too much of the home market, but for the small or medium businesses that want to use probably like VMware that is a very nice feature people have to attach for the Virtual Machines. The number of users that says 50 users with here on the left that’s quite for home and consumer network there and up to 204 on the NVX on the right, that’s one of the things where I certainly would say—
The indexes haven’t upgrade the version of the X-ray technology which actually keeps the drives in a redundant state, and I believe it will work a little faster as well because the performance on the NVX is almost double, read and write at 75 megabytes a second versus 34 to 22 on the NV+ on the left, so both have a very nice features set, but you’re going to see better performance on the NVX on the right.
Here we’re looking at the back of the machines and again the ReadyNAS NV+ the old on the left and the NVX on the right. You’ll see that NVX has added another gigabyte network port here for either redundancy if you fail over or possibly even a different network applications that might be look more advance. Other than that the USP ports are about the same and you can also still attach USB printers and share them or USB hard drives, external hard drives can be attach either to back up the ReadyNAS as unit two or for additional storage to make available and shares to users.
Such about it for this video I just want to do a highlight on some of the important features and changes that going into the ReadyNAS NVX unit on the right it’s the unit that on currently putting into lot of my clients and using actually my own network here. It has a lot of features. It is fast. You can put a lot of space and I have a terrible drives in this.
You can go larger and looks up and tear it by in half, but I don’t believe those are available in enterprise class just yet, and with for more upgrades I think there’s can be more expansion. You can now really use this very handily for both Windows and Mac machines. It will work as a time machine back up. It will also do a lot of media serving through iTunes or squeeze box to those kinds of applications.
So if you have a lot of data you want some redundancy to protect that data the ReadyNAS NVX and NV+ both are very good units, the NVX of course being a little bit more expensive. Compare the features and just I will show you it might right for you. Please stop over my website I’ve got a lot more great information on products like these and other Windows tips and tricks and things that make your computing a lot easier, thanks for watching this video.
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