Netgear Announces New ReadyNAS Storage For Growing Businesses

[Julio Urquidi]

Netgear introduced three new rack-mountable 2U ReadyNAS models for business. The ReadyNAS 3312, ReadyNAS 4312S, and ReadyNAS 4312X are each powered by a 5th generation Intel Xeon processor and have 12-bays that can provide up 120 TB of total capacity. The new ReadyNAS products run on Netgear’s ReadyNAS OS 6 offering data protection via RAID, anti-virus, incremental backups, bitrot protection, and cloud-managed replication.

Individual specs for each ReadyNAS includes:

ReadyNAS 3312:

• Intel Xeon E3-1225v5 Quad Core processor (3.3GHz base turbo frequency, 3.7GHz burst maximum)
• 8GB DDR4 of ECC RAM (expandable to 64GB)
• Up to 120 simultaneous users

ReadyNAS 4312S:

• Intel Xeon E3-1245v5 Quad Core processor (3.5GHz base turbo frequency, 3.9GHz burst maximum)
• 16GB DDR4 of ECC RAM (expandable to 64GB)
• Up to 160 simultaneous users

ReadyNAS 4312X:

• Intel Xeon E3-1245v5 Quad Core processor (3.5GHz base turbo frequency, 3.9GHz burst maximum)
• 16GB DDR4 of EEC RAM (expandable to 64GB)
• Up to 160 simultaneous users

Common attributes shared by all three ReadyNAS models include scalability to 600TB with two 4U EDA4000 expansion chassis, 4x 1GBase-T ports, link aggregation IEEE 802.3ad, Layer 2, 3, 4, port trunking, adaptive load balancing, and Netgear ReadyCLOUD for VPN and remote access.

Available worldwide, MSRP for each models’ diskless configuration are: ReadyNAS 3312 - $2,999, ReadyNAS 4312S - $4,199, and ReadyNAS 4312X - $4,399. Fully populated versions are also available with 12 drives, each of 3TB, 4TB or 6TB capacities.

 

[mdgm]

We will be selling memory modules. 3rd party memory is not supported.

EDA support is not there in the initial release, but it is planned for a future firmware update.