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ReadyNAS NV+ Review follow-up: upgrade, downgrade, or just praying?

April 19th, 2008 | Uncategorized, Web

Have you ever had a downgrade when you thought it was an upgrade?

Now, NetGear make on this an option. You may have seen that my previous review was less than glowing. Now it comes with brand-new backup features in an upgrade!

  1. BitTorrent Software installed to download and serve torrents to/from your backup device.
  2. A proprietary photo gallery to browse pictures on your backup device
  3. A new add-on infrastructure widgets to manage your new BitTorrent and Photo Gallery.
  4. Support for new photo standards used by some unnamed new cameras and cutting edge hardware like the XBox 360.

And New Bug Fixes:

  1. Flash auto-copy is enabled by default, which transparently affects the way files are copied from some devices in order to better support the new photo gallery!
  2. Some bugs with the fan may have been fixed. Or may not have.
  3. Lots of small stuff.

And New Bugs:

  1. Yes, 10 outstanding issues that affect user performance in this update! Plus lots of “easter eggs” bugs that haven’t been mentioned yet.
  2. Now broken with with Opera, Safari, Vista, Web/DAV, wireless, Mac AFP, and installing new drives when the machine is off.
  3. The upgrade is “pray-ware”. It cannot be reversed or uninstalled, so no backups for the backup server. Oddly, the upgrade does not state as to if it destroys the data on your drives. It shouldn’t, but don’t assume.

How are these people employed?

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5 comments ↓

#1 Dan on 04.23.08 at 3:26 pm

I use a software for displaying content on projector. A very advanced type of power point let’s say. Every upgrade has been it’s downgrade for us. Very tiring. I tend to let others go first and see what happens to them :)
However, I can not complain. I do software programming and it is so complex. I often have things tested on different PC builds, different software (like OS or browser depending on what software is) and yet there are still problems after working out all the issues with the testing.

#2 derek on 04.29.08 at 9:29 am

“Now broken with with Opera, Safari, Vista, Web/DAV, wireless, Mac AFP, and installing new drives when the machine is off.”

Or try 4.01c1-p2 and up which don’t have these issues?

“Oddly, the upgrade does not state as to if it destroys the data on your drives. It shouldn’t, but don’t assume.”

It doesn’t, and no one forced you to upgrade in the first place, you could have easily stayed with old firmware if that made you marginally less angry.

#3 charles on 04.29.08 at 1:06 pm

Hi Derek

Hmm. Let’s look at 4.01c1-p2. Let me run over to the ReadyNas downloads page, conveniently called http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=102. Nope, not yet available. Latest is 4.01c1-p1.

And, yes, I did stay with the old firmware. I read the release notes; I wasn’t foolish on that particular day.

Sorry, nice counter. It just wrong.

#4 derek on 05.02.08 at 12:29 pm

You can get 4.01c1-p2 from here: http://kbserver.netgear.com/release_notes/d103170.asp

#5 charles on 05.02.08 at 5:18 pm

OK, I found it. I’ll need to install something that reads Microsoft Word doc files in order to read the release notes.

Odd format for a multi-platform release.

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