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Firstly let me explain that I am not using the full potential of this product - I'm just using it as network file store. The device is easy to set up physically and once you have it powered up & connected to a network, there are lots of options for using it as a file store. I loaded mine with 4 x 8TB Seagate Ironwolf drives and the box automatically configured these as one 21.6TB volume with RAID-5 redundancy. (It takes a few hours to build the file system, so a little patience is called for!) When powered up the fan starts at full speed and is quite loud, but it soon settles down to a barely audible hum even when the fan speed is set to "cool". (The Ironwolf drives are not the quietest and dwarf the sound from the enclosure). Before trusting it with important data I simulated a disk failure by pulling out one of the disks: as expected it reported that it was running in "degraded mode" but remained fully accessible. After reinserting the disk it took several hours to resync (again fully accessible whilst this was happening) & everything was fine again once this had finished. The unit replaced a Netgear ReadyNAS 214 and is noticeably faster. Otherwise the operating system is identical though the 424 has more performance monitoring - and only one USB 3 port on the rear instead of 2 as in the 214, but, hey, it has an eSATA port instead of the second USB port. The only thing I don't like in comparison is that with the 424 it is neccessary to open the door to see the disk status lights, but this is a very minor issue.Read full review
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