Ready NAS pro is the most powerful member of the award-winning Ready NAS product family. Designed for small & medium businesses, workgroups & home offices, Ready NAS pro delivers class-leading performance, ease of use, & robust features in a desktop small form factor chassis supporting 6 SATA channels. To ensure high availability to stored data, the Ready NAS pro features dual redundant Gigabit Ethernet ports for failover protection. The Ready NAS pro is a powerful NAS for mission critical business data across a variety of different platforms. The high-performance platform coupled with dual Gigabit Ethernet & jumbo frame support provides enough bandwidth to allow more users to access data storage simultaneously. The Ready NAS pro utilizes hardware-accelerated RAID to ensure full data redundancy without compromising the system performance. Incorporating Intel Matrix Storage technology, the Ready NAS pro supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, & NETGEARs patent pending X-RAID2, with hot spare capability. With RAID 6, the system ensures data integrity even with 2 simultaneous disk failures. The industrial design & compact desktop form factor of the Ready NAS pro makes it perfect not just for small & medium size businesses, but also for departments & work groups. It can fit in any server space or on any desk. Ready NAS pro also offers low power consumption & a special energy-saving mode means that you can automate startup & shutdown according to a pre-programmed schedule, in addition to the disk spin-down for regular power saving. Ready NAS pro is a single centralized source for all of your digital data. The variety of computers & hard drives that currently house the data in your office & home can make locating a particular file quite arduous. Ready NAS can bring all of that data together for fast & easy file serving to multiple clients simultaneously across the local network or via the Internet.