

A visit to the ReadyNAS website reveals that almost every add-on has two versions available, one for x86 and the other for SPARC. One of the big plus points of the ReadyNAS lineup is the wealth of community developed add-ons available. The backup transfer rate seems to be fundamentally limited by the RAID array itself, as evident from the NASPT / robocopy benchmarks and the results above.

ReadyNAS NV+ v2 One-Touch Backup Transfer Rates over USB 3.0 The transfer rates for the NV+ v2 (with various volume configurations) are recorded below. This is something Netgear should probably look at in future firmware upgrades. The WD MyBook Live uses the rsync command which gives more flexibility in the backup process. As can be seen in the gallery above, the backup jobs use 'cp' internally. One touch backup was performed for 100 GB of data (with multiple small files and folders) on a OCZ Enyo USB 3.0 SSD. We set up a backup job to copy over the contents of the drive connected to the rear top USB 3.0 port to a backup folder in the internal volume. The one-touch backup button can be configured to execute one or more of the configured backup jobs.
