Netgear EDA 500 User Manual
2.
Open a web browser and visit
The Product Registration web page displays.
3.
Take one of the following actions:
•
If you have never registered a NETGEAR product, click the Continue button.
•
If you have registered a NETGEAR product in the past, enter your email address and password
and click the Log in button.
and click the Log in button.
4.
Follow the prompts.
The ReadyNAS is registered.
The ReadyNAS is registered.
Five Levels of File Protection
File and data protection strategies such as various RAID levels or snapshots can go only so far in protecting
data from loss, but ReadyNAS OS provides five separate strategies that work together to provide
substantially better protection than any one strategy.
data from loss, but ReadyNAS OS provides five separate strategies that work together to provide
substantially better protection than any one strategy.
The different levels of disk redundancy provided by RAID types provide degrees of file protection from
the loss of one or more disks, but cannot do anything about accidental deletion or corruption; can mask,
but not prevent, gradual corruption caused by the slow degradation of the disks; and cannot provide
protection from a site disaster. Snapshot technologies provide protection against accidental deletion or
corruption but by themselves cannot protect against disk loss or site loss.
the loss of one or more disks, but cannot do anything about accidental deletion or corruption; can mask,
but not prevent, gradual corruption caused by the slow degradation of the disks; and cannot provide
protection from a site disaster. Snapshot technologies provide protection against accidental deletion or
corruption but by themselves cannot protect against disk loss or site loss.
ReadyNAS OS allows you to use five different types of protection simultaneously:
Getting Started
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ReadyNAS OS 6.2