NETGEAR ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition - Manual (Page 13)

ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide
Getting Acquainted 1-1
v1.3, November 2008
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-RAID2
TM for 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