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title: "Netgear Inc RN31600-100NAS ReadyNAS 316 6 Bay Network Attached Storage"
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# Intel Atom 1.2GHz 6 Bay Storage 5 Levels of Protection Netgear Inc RN31600-100NAS ReadyNAS 316 6 Bay Network Attached Storage

**Brand:** netgear
**Price:** $319.29
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## Summary

> 🔒 Secure Your Data, Elevate Your Business!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Netgear Inc RN31600-100NAS ReadyNAS 316 6 Bay Network Attached Storage by netgear
- **How much does it cost?** $319.29 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Best For

- netgear enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted netgear brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Robust Data Security:** 5 levels of protection keep your data safe.
- • **Seamless User Access:** Supports up to 40 users for collaborative efficiency.
- • **High-Speed Performance:** Powered by Intel Atom for lightning-fast access.
- • **Unmatched Storage Capacity:** Scale up to 60TB, expandable to 160TB!
- • **Effortless Cloud Integration:** Easy setup for cloud storage—backup made simple.

## Overview

The Netgear Inc RN31600-100NAS ReadyNAS 316 is a high-performance, cost-effective network-attached storage solution designed for businesses. With 6 drive bays and support for up to 40 users, it offers robust data protection through five levels of security, including XRAID, snapshots, and real-time anti-virus. The device is powered by an Intel Atom 1.2GHz processor and features dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, ensuring fast and reliable access to your data.

## Description

enlargeEasily store, share and access data from your personal cloudThe ReadyNAS 300 series is an advanced and intuitive solution centralizing, securing and controlling access to your digital assets. More than just unified (NAS and SAN) storage for your business, each ReadyNAS includes innovative technologies such as unlimited snapshots, thin provisioning and cloud-managed replication. Designed to service between 5-25 simultaneous users, the ReadyNAS 300 is an ideal storage solution for small offices.The NETGEAR DifferenceFirst desktop NAS for the SMB to include unlimited snapshots, cloud-managed replication and real-time anti-virusSleek, modern and intuitive user interfaceCloud-based set-up and file management through ReadyCLOUDPowerful embedded and add-on applications for file serving, backup, disaster recovery and virtualizationFeatures & Applications Unlimited Snapshots. Now on the desktop—ReadyNAS gives you continuous data protection with unlimited block-based snapshots of your file system. Create and track multiple versions and restore any point of time with a single click.Move it here. Copy it there. Store it anywhere—Whip through file-based remote replication from anywhere. Powered by the ReadyCLOUD platform, Replicate makes it simple to copy, move and store data offsite for protection and peace of mind. ReadyCLOUD: easy cloud-based set-up, management, and replication—ReadyCLOUD allows you to discover and manage any ReadyNAS device from the cloud – just plug the unit into your network, log onto the Internet, and set-up is as simple as clicking a button. Thin Provisioning and XRAID2 add capacity (while lightening your management load)— Get the critical flexibility to add capacity as needed – no need to pre-determine volume capacity and quotas ahead of time. XRAID2 adds automation and volume expansionStop risk before it starts with Real Time Anti-virus & Encryption—Whenever a file is written to the ReadyNAS, the file is scanned in real-time to prevent any danger – a must-have requirement when using bit-torrent or downloading files directly from the Internet to the ReadyNAS. ReadyNAS Encryption also gives you real-time protection, encrypting files as they’re written.Expands growing data—ReadyNAS 300 series is available in a 2, 4, or 6 bay configuration with a maximum capacity of 4TB hard drive per bay.File-sharing has never been easier—You’re on your tablet and you need that file from your computer. ReadyNAS centralizes your files to make that happen simply and quickly. Whether Mac, PC or Linux, access your files anytime, even at the same time, from any OS type of device. Back it up. Restore it. Sleep well—Rest easier knowing that your important financial and personal data is safely backed-up and accessible anytime from anywhere. If you lose it, ReadyNAS makes it easy to restore your data.Disaster Recovery—The custom-built ReadyNAS OS protects stored data with automatic RAID configuration, the continuous security of Unlimited Snapshots and more. By maintaining multiple copies of vital data through cloud replication, it makes it easy for you to move data off-site to protect against natural disasters and theft.Virtualization—With Unlimited Snapshots, thin provisioning and improved iCSI support, ReadyNAS delivers a virtualization platform with next generation features at an affordable price.enlargeenlargeCompare   ReadyNAS 300 Series ReadyNAS 500 Series   RN31200-100NASRN31400-100NASRN31600-100NASRN51600-100NAS Capacity Memory 2GB DDR3 2GB DDR3 2GB DDR3 4GB ECC DDR3 No. of bays 2 4 6 6 No. of current users 6 - 25 6 - 25 6 - 25 26 - 300 Maximum Solution Capacity 28TB 56TB 64TB 84TB CPU Processor – Intel Atom Dual Core 2.1 GHz   Processor – Intel i3-3220 3.3 GHz Dual Core       Supported Drive Types 2.5 SATA Support/SS Support 3.5 SATA Support/SS Support Ports Gigabit LAN ports 2 2 2 2 eSata ports 1 2 2 3 USB 2.0 ports 1 1 1 1 USB 3.0 ports 2 2 2 2 Package ContentsReadyNAS 316 (RN31600-100XXX)6 hard drive trays – Tool-less installationReadyNAS OS 6.0 Installation GuidePower cordEthernet cableReadyNAS Installation and Resource CD System RequirementsEthernet connectionHard disk drive or drives from NETGEAR Hardware Compatibility List (if purchased a diskless system)Supported Operating SystemsMicrosoft Windows 8Microsoft Windows 7Microsoft Windows VistaAppke Macintosh OS XLinux, UNIX, SolarisApple iOSGoogle AndroidSupported Browsers:Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0+Apple Safari, 5.0+Google Chrome 20+Mozilla Firefox 14+If you have difficulty accessing the local admin page or if you notice unexpected behavior try using another browser.

## Features

- High-performance, cost effective, and high-security business storage and backup. Supports up to 40 users. 6 drive bays desktop NAS
- 5 Levels of Data Protection
- Level 1: XRAID protection against disk failure. Level 2: Snapshot provides unlimited or user directed incremental backup copies
- Level 3: Bit rot protection against media degradation. Level 4: Free and embedded real-time anti-virus, with no performance impact
- Level 5: Easy-to-setup Cloud storage
- ReadyDR provides disaster recovery for data loss due to a catastrophe. Maximum Capacity:Up to 60TB of storage ( 160TB with Expansion units)
- High performance Intel Atom 1.2GHz processor with 2GB DDR3 memory. 2 x Gigabit Ethernet ports
- 2 x Gigabit Ethernet ports

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## Customer Reviews

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    Nice unit, needs work
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2014*

As others have noted this isn't a true home system and I agree. Having worked for the largest storage company in the world in their NAS group for many years I felt pretty good about using this device. The manual or rather lack of one is amazing.On bootup: Got an error message on the front display 'Error: Unable to mount root raid drive'. I searched for this error at netgear and found nothing. Luckily I had read the previous reviews and remembered the need to do a factory reset. I suggest you use virgin drives in this device if at all possible to avoid the need to reset. Once done and factory reset option selected the device booted and proceeded to create the x-raid volume. Note, if you play with the volume and delete the x-raid volume there doesn't appear to be a way to re-select it and you'll have to do another factory reset. You can select raid 5/6/10 etc.Operation: Once you're up and running the GUI interface is nice. I did the firmware upgrade to 6.1.6 right away and did not have security issues with data copied on as others have. Until, I added NFS to a share.This brings me to netgears attempt at SMB/CIFS or lack of. If you're running older XP devices in a domain there appears to be no way to add that domain/workgroup to the readynas 316. I even installed the SMB Plus addon which allowed me to specify 2k/xp cifs but still no option to add the device to a domain. This caused issues with my WD HD Live TV device. Luckily I added NFS to the share and  the WD was able to see the share as a NFS share.This brings me to media share. There's no way to add file associations. I use ISO's for all my video and they aren't recognized by the 316. Another reason I had to access the share via NFS.readyDLNA also doesn't appear to function as advertised. I tried to access it with my X-Box and couldn't figure out to add the key provided by the x-box to the dlna configuration. I'll try this access with a ps4 laterOtherwise I'm happy with the device overall but it clearly needs work, especially in the manual/help area.I would have rated this a 4 if there was a decent manual and online help. It would rate a 5 if there was a manual and all the functions worked properly. I currently have no intentions of upgrading the size of the drives installed (6 x 2tb WD black). If I do I'll add to this and let folks know how it goes.9/9/2014 - Things change.The unit is working well and I have no real complains except the cifs/smb compatibility.I have expanded the storage, kind of had to. I got 2 4tb drives for free. Removed the 2tb from slot 6, waited for the GUI to inform me the raid was degraded and inserted the new 4tb into the open slot. The rebuild began a minute or so later. 6-8 to rebuild, not terrible as these things go. When it finished I expected to see an additional 3+tb of space added. Nothing had changed. Some searching and reading on the forums and I discovered you have to change drives in pairs when increasing volume size. Unexpected.I pulled the drive from slot 5, waited for the GUI and inserted the second 4tb drive. 6-8 hours later I expected to be finished. Unfortunately, after the rebuild completes it took another 2-4 hours for the expansion to occur. I was expecting 3+tb of additional storage and only got 3.8tb. That's only the capacity of one drive. When I had 6 x 2tb I had just over 9tb available, approximately 1.5tb per drive. So that being said, 4 x 1.5 + 2 x 3.0 = 12tb. I seem to be missing 1+tb. Looks at the volumes in the GUI I should have 14.4tb according to capacity listed per each drive. Using those numbers I am missing the capacity of an entire 4tb drive. I'll be send a message to Netgear to see what they have to say. I'll continue to update as I go along.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A solid choice
  

*by T***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 12, 2018*

I have had this NAS since 2013. I have used it as an overnight backup for my primary NAS, which is a Synology DS716+ii. The Synology runs RAID-0, has extra memory and runs multimedia services. The ReadyNAS has 12TB in RAID-6, and only runs Samba and Rsync, and runs for about 1 hour, every night, then shuts off. Overall the ReadyNAS is fast and reliable. I never had a problem with it. I really like the 6-disk layout - this is really the sweet-spot for efficiency in redundant storage. If your NAS has only 2 or 4 bays, it gets 50% to 75% of your drive capacity in RAID5, but the 6-disk NAS gives you 84% of that capacity. The ReadyNAS is compact, squeezing in 6 disks without much space in between.What I like about the RN316 - It's realiable. Has a relatively powerful Intel chip that does virtualization, and hardware encryption. It has a super-easy drive-caddy mechanism, which is better than Synology's. It's fast - my rsync backup runs at 100MB/s which has saturated the gigabit ethernet.What I don't like about it - the firmware is ugly and lacks features. Compared with Synology, the ReadyNAS firmware sucks. While it doesn't show CPU or memory usage, i use linux-dash app for that. The features and usability are so lacking, I only use it for storing files, but it's way more powerful than that.I will keep my ReadyNAS for many more years. I currently have 6x4TB enterprise drives. In the future, I think we'll see the singularity and the machines rise up to rule the world, before i need 6x14TB drives, so I'm sticking with ReadyNAS for backups. I will continue to use Synology for my primary NAS, for multimedia, virtualization and storage and a general-purpose server platform.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Not quite Ready NAS
  

*by J***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 13, 2014*

I owned several earlier models of Netgear Ultra 4 and 6. Had great success with them. The ReadyNAS line is a complete rewrite of the operating system... and though I think it is for the better... it has a way to go before it is ready for prime time! Reminiscent of HP products with 2 million bells and whistles poorly supported or implemented!Tech support is an absolute mess. Got a DOA unit. Chatted with support they said they would have someone from the Enterprise support contact me... they did a WEEK later. I had figured out the power came disconnected on the inside and fixed the problem myself. Later I had a stuck time machine backup that I had to delete. I had to ssh in to the box but had a problem finding the sparsebundle file to delete. Tech support took several days to get back to me with the WRONG instructions. I have 3 of these installed for clients... they are working well.... just not happy with the half-baked implementation.

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