Compare NetGear ReadyNAS 212 RN21200-100NES 2-Bay Prosumer Desktop NAS, RAID-0/1/X-RAID2, Diskless AND NetGear ReadyNAS 628X 10GbE RN628X00-100NES 8-Bay Business Desktop NAS, RAID-0/1/5/6/X-RAID2, Diskless AND NetGear ReadyNAS 422 RN422D4-100NES 2-Bay Business Desktop NAS, RAID-0/1/X-RAID2, 2x 4TB (Desktop) AND NetGear ReadyNAS 428 RN42800-100NES 8-Bay Business Desktop NAS, RAID-0/1/5/6/X-RAID2, Diskless AND NetGear ReadyNAS 528X 10GbE RN528X00-100NES 8-Bay Business Desktop NAS, RAID-0/1/5/6/X-RAID2, Diskless

General Performance

The RN21200-100NES same as the RN628X00-100NES and the RN422D4-100NES and the RN42800-100NES and the RN528X00-100NES is made by NetGear. There always other brands out there like NetGear which are often innovative. You might not get the same user experience comparing with other better known brands. But sometimes you might not need it. Unlike the RN628X00-100NES and the RN422D4-100NES and the RN42800-100NES and the RN528X00-100NES this box has the Quad core 1.4GHz High Performance ARM Cortex A15 processor. Just like the RN422D4-100NES this box has 2GB RAM. The RN21200-100NES 2GB RAM compared with RN628X00-100NES 8GB is clearly weaker.

About Connections

There are two LAN ports on this box, making it a good home or small business NAS as you can utilise Link Aggregation and Failover support. Three USB3 ports on this NetGear is offering you up to 5Gb/s transfer speeds of external devices. It is fast enough to get your files through fairly quickly with this speed and make backing up with an external drive or Apple Time Machine a quick and easy process. There is one eSATA port on RN21200-100NES giving you up to 6Gb/s transfer speeds.

About Usage

With two bay unit you are having additional advantages. You may choose your box to be set up as JBOD, RAID0 or RAID1. RAID 0 would be good for non-critical storage of data when you need it to read and written at high speeds. It could give you good performance. Besides you can still access your documents or media files over your private network or even internet. You may install Plex Media Server on this box. Plex lets you easily create a feature rich and practical home media playback system. Some boxes offer real time transcoding functionality. That let you stream your media hustle free, based on your device speed or screen size. Please contact us to find transcoding compatibility list.

Price And Warranty

This box comes with 3 year warranty for your peace of mind and long term hardware security. This NetGear is £905.00 cheaper than the most expensive unit RN628X00-100NES.

General Performance

The RN628X00-100NES same as the RN21200-100NES and the RN422D4-100NES and the RN42800-100NES and the RN528X00-100NES is made by NetGear. There always other brands out there like NetGear which are often innovative. You might not get the same user experience comparing with other better known brands. But sometimes you might not need it. This model comes with new DDR4 technology random access memorty (RAM). DDR3 used to work at 800 MT/s (or Millions of Transfers per second) and some went as high as 2133. DDR4, starts at 2133 MHz. The increased speed means an overall increase in bandwidth. Unlike the RN21200-100NES and the RN422D4-100NES and the RN42800-100NES and the RN528X00-100NES this box has the Intel D-1521 Quad Core 2.4GHz Xeon processor. With its 2.4GHZ processor, this box should have no trouble transcoding your videos up to 1080P via the native MANUFACTURER apps. Another key difference between the RN21200-100NES and the RN422D4-100NES and the RN42800-100NES and the RN528X00-100NES is RAM. RN628X00-100NES arrives with 8GB RAM. Size of 8GB makes RN628X00-100NES the best regards to RAM capacity.

About Connections

With four LAN ports this box is making good enterprise level NAS. Three USB3 ports on this NetGear is offering you up to 5Gb/s transfer speeds of external devices. It is fast enough to get your files through fairly quickly with this speed and make backing up with an external drive or Apple Time Machine a quick and easy process.

About Usage

With 8 bay unit you are having additional advantages. You can choose from number of RAID solutions to set up. There could be RAID that saves your data even if one of the drives fail so you can still recover your data. This would be slightly more safe option to keep your data. Besides you can still access your documents or media files over your private network or even internet. You may install Plex Media Server on this box. Plex lets you easily create a feature rich and practical home media playback system. Some boxes offer real time transcoding functionality. That let you stream your media hustle free, based on your device speed or screen size. Please contact us to find transcoding compatibility list.

PLEX TRANSCODING

This NAS feature Intel D-1521 Quad Core 2.4GHz Xeon processor which will let you transcode videos on the PLEX. This will allow you to watch videos remotely from anywhere you can connect to the internet. The i3 CPU will transcode all HD and Full HD videos including quite few 4K videos. The i5 and i7 will pretty much transcode any video you want. The difference will be the number of simultaneous streams. The i7 obviously can cope with more streams than i5.

Price And Warranty

This box comes with staggering 5 year warranty for your peace of mind and long term hardware security. Despite RN21200-100NES has better warranty, it is still good to know that you have your five years of no worries manufacturer cover. This is the most expensive box with the price tag £1,069.00.

General Performance

The RN422D4-100NES same as the RN21200-100NES and the RN628X00-100NES and the RN42800-100NES and the RN528X00-100NES is made by NetGear. There always other brands out there like NetGear which are often innovative. You might not get the same user experience comparing with other better known brands. But sometimes you might not need it. Unlike the RN21200-100NES and the RN628X00-100NES and the RN42800-100NES and the RN528X00-100NES this box has the Intel Atom C3338 Dual Core processor. With its ATOM processor, this box should have no trouble transcoding your videos up to 720P via the native MANUFACTURER apps. Just like the RN21200-100NES this box has 2GB RAM. The RN422D4-100NES 2GB RAM compared with RN628X00-100NES 8GB is clearly weaker.

About Connections

There are two LAN ports on this box, making it a good home or small business NAS as you can utilise Link Aggregation and Failover support. Two USB3 ports on this NetGear is offering you up to 5Gb/s transfer speeds of external devices. It is fast enough to get your files through fairly quickly with this speed and make backing up with an external drive or Apple Time Machine a quick and easy process.

About Usage

With two bay unit you are having additional advantages. You may choose your box to be set up as JBOD, RAID0 or RAID1. RAID 0 would be good for non-critical storage of data when you need it to read and written at high speeds. It could give you good performance. Besides you can still access your documents or media files over your private network or even internet. You may install Plex Media Server on this box. Plex lets you easily create a feature rich and practical home media playback system. Some boxes offer real time transcoding functionality. That let you stream your media hustle free, based on your device speed or screen size. Please contact us to find transcoding compatibility list.

Price And Warranty

This box comes with staggering 5 year warranty for your peace of mind and long term hardware security. Despite RN21200-100NES has better warranty, it is still good to know that you have your five years of no worries manufacturer cover. This NetGear is £434.00 cheaper than the most expensive unit RN628X00-100NES.

General Performance

The RN42800-100NES same as the RN21200-100NES and the RN628X00-100NES and the RN422D4-100NES and the RN528X00-100NES is made by NetGear. There always other brands out there like NetGear which are often innovative. You might not get the same user experience comparing with other better known brands. But sometimes you might not need it. Unlike the RN21200-100NES and the RN628X00-100NES and the RN422D4-100NES and the RN528X00-100NES this box has the Intel Atom C3000 Quad core processor. With its ATOM processor, this box should have no trouble transcoding your videos up to 720P via the native MANUFACTURER apps. Just like the RN528X00-100NES this box has 4GB RAM. The RN42800-100NES 4GB RAM compared with RN628X00-100NES 8GB is clearly weaker.

About Connections

With four LAN ports this box is making good enterprise level NAS. Two USB3 ports on this NetGear is offering you up to 5Gb/s transfer speeds of external devices. It is fast enough to get your files through fairly quickly with this speed and make backing up with an external drive or Apple Time Machine a quick and easy process.

About Usage

With 8 bay unit you are having additional advantages. You can choose from number of RAID solutions to set up. There could be RAID that saves your data even if one of the drives fail so you can still recover your data. This would be slightly more safe option to keep your data. Besides you can still access your documents or media files over your private network or even internet. You may install Plex Media Server on this box. Plex lets you easily create a feature rich and practical home media playback system. Some boxes offer real time transcoding functionality. That let you stream your media hustle free, based on your device speed or screen size. Please contact us to find transcoding compatibility list.

Price And Warranty

This box comes with staggering 5 year warranty for your peace of mind and long term hardware security. Despite RN21200-100NES has better warranty, it is still good to know that you have your five years of no worries manufacturer cover. This NetGear is £682.00 cheaper than the most expensive unit RN628X00-100NES.

General Performance

The RN528X00-100NES same as the RN21200-100NES and the RN628X00-100NES and the RN422D4-100NES and the RN42800-100NES is made by NetGear. There always other brands out there like NetGear which are often innovative. You might not get the same user experience comparing with other better known brands. But sometimes you might not need it. This model comes with new DDR4 technology random access memorty (RAM). DDR3 used to work at 800 MT/s (or Millions of Transfers per second) and some went as high as 2133. DDR4, starts at 2133 MHz. The increased speed means an overall increase in bandwidth. Unlike the RN21200-100NES and the RN628X00-100NES and the RN422D4-100NES and the RN42800-100NES this box has the Intel D-1508 Dual Core 2.2GHz processor. Just like the RN42800-100NES this box has 4GB RAM. The RN528X00-100NES 4GB RAM compared with RN628X00-100NES 8GB is clearly weaker.

About Connections

With four LAN ports this box is making good enterprise level NAS. Three USB3 ports on this NetGear is offering you up to 5Gb/s transfer speeds of external devices. It is fast enough to get your files through fairly quickly with this speed and make backing up with an external drive or Apple Time Machine a quick and easy process.

About Usage

With 8 bay unit you are having additional advantages. You can choose from number of RAID solutions to set up. There could be RAID that saves your data even if one of the drives fail so you can still recover your data. This would be slightly more safe option to keep your data. Besides you can still access your documents or media files over your private network or even internet.

Price And Warranty

This box comes with staggering 5 year warranty for your peace of mind and long term hardware security. Despite RN21200-100NES has better warranty, it is still good to know that you have your five years of no worries manufacturer cover. This NetGear is £542.00 cheaper than the most expensive unit RN628X00-100NES.