NETGEAR Business Edition manual Chapter Getting Acquainted, What is the ReadyNAS Pro?

ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide

Chapter 1

Getting Acquainted

This chapter provides an overview of the features and capabilities of the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition. It also covers the unit’s physical features, main software, and initial setup steps.

Topics discussed in this chapter include:

•“What is the ReadyNAS Pro?”

•“What Are the Benefits of X-RAID and X-RAID2?”

•“Introducing the Status Displays, Ports, and Drive Bay”

•“Choosing a Location for a ReadyNAS Pro”

•“Initial Setup”

•“The RAIDar Setup Utility”

•“The FrontView Management Console”

•“NETGEAR ReadyNAS Community”

What is the ReadyNAS Pro?

NETGEAR ReadyNAS Pro gigabit network storage products provide small and medium sized businesses with easy-to-use, high-performance network attached storage solutions to share and protect critical data. Housed in a compact desktop form factor, the ReadyNAS Pro products support up to six SATA I or SATA II hard drives via six lockable, hot-swappable disk trays. Three USB 2.0 ports enable the connection of USB drives or printers. Based on current drive capacities, the ReadyNAS Pro provides up to 9TB of network attached storage that can easily be expanded as larger capacity drives become available.

The ReadyNAS Pro enables users across the LAN, WAN, or over the Internet to back up and share data from Windows, Macintosh, and Linux systems. ReadyNAS Pro offers extensible robust high- availability data protection. Its fail-safe features include dual redundant Gigabit Ethernet ports and support for RAID 0, 1, 5, RAID 5 plus hot spare, RAID 6, and NETGEAR’s proprietary X-RAID2TMfor automatic volume expansion.

In addition to a Web based graphical user interface (GUI) and setup wizard for ease-of-use and setup, ReadyNAS Pro features an LCD display that provides quick and intuitive system status readings and incorporates an active system monitoring capability which continually monitors the

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