User Manual

To register your ReadyNAS system, if the link is no longer available:
1. Locate the serial number of the system.
You can find the serial number on the Overview page of the local admin page or on the chassis label
of your product.
2. Open a web browser and visit http://www.NETGEAR.com/register.
3. Take one of the following actions:
• If you never registered a NETGEAR product, click the REGISTER NOW button.
• If you registered a NETGEAR product in the past, enter your email address and password and click
the LOG IN button.
4. Follow the prompts.
The ReadyNAS is registered.
Five Levels of 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.
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
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ReadyNAS OS 6.9.3