NAS
Asustor, one of the more popular NAS manufacturers, has announced the company's new Flashtor series. The Flashtor lineup, which currently consists of the Flashtor 6 (FS6706T) and Flashtor 12 Pro (FS6712X), caters to content creators and enthusiasts, offering a rich feature set that includes the capacity to house up to 12 PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs, fast 10GbE connectivity and HDMI 2.0b port that supports 4K displays at 60 Hz. It's the first time the brand has launched a NAS featuring all-M.2 NVMe SSD storage. The Flashtor series arrives with a black and very console-looking exterior. The aesthetics may be a refreshing departure from the typical NAS look for some. The Flashtor 6 and Flashtor 12 Pro have identical dimensions. Both measure 12.1...
Netgear ReadyNAS RN202 2-bay NAS Review
NAS units with four bays present the best balance between cost and expandability for home consumers. However, with increasing hard drive sizes, two bays make the cut for many...
22 by Ganesh T S on 9/25/2015
QNAP's TVS-871T - A 10G NAS with Thunderbolt 2
QNAP operates in SMB / SME NAS space and differentiates itself by providing consumers with plenty of choices when it comes to the hardware platform. Over the last year...
2 by Ganesh T S on 9/22/2015
WD Red Pro 6 TB Review - High Performance NAS HDD Gets a Capacity Bump
Despite the increasing affordability of SSDs, hard drives continue to remain the storage medium of choice for applications where capacity and cost factors outweigh performance requirements. Specialty drives have...
62 by Ganesh T S on 9/7/2015
Seagate Announces a Trio of 8TB Drives for Enterprise Applications
Seagate was the first hard drive vendor to launch a cost-effective 8TB hard drive. The Archive HDD v2 (ST8000AS0002) uses Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) to drive up the areal...
14 by Ganesh T S on 9/1/2015
Western Digital Updates My Cloud Mirror NAS, Releases My Cloud OS 3
Western Digital markets their NAS lineup under the 'Personal Cloud' category. This is further sub-divided into three markets, the 'Consumer Series' (the MyCloud units), 'Expert Series' (the EX units...
6 by Ganesh T S on 9/1/2015
Western Digital Updates WD Red Pro and WD Black with 5 & 6TB Models
It is that time of the year when Western Digital updates their Red lineup. Launched in 2012, the WD Red drives target network attached storage units with an optimized...
51 by Ganesh T S on 8/18/2015
Advatronix Nimbus 400 File Server Review
Small businesses and power users often need the flexibility offered by a file server when compared to a dedicated NAS. This is where storage servers based on Microsoft's Windows...
18 by Ganesh T S on 8/12/2015
ASRock Rack C2750D4I and U-NAS NSC-800: A DIY File Server
Small businesses and power users often need the flexibility offered by a file server when compared to a dedicated NAS. This is where storage servers based on Microsoft's Windows...
48 by Ganesh T S on 8/10/2015
Buffalo TeraStation 5200 Network Video Recorder Review
Surveillance cameras have experienced rapid growth over the last few years as security has turned out to be a very important aspect in both home and business environments. Almost...
12 by Ganesh T S on 7/31/2015
Lime Technology's unRAID 6 Brings Containers and Virtualization to NAS Units
Consumers looking for network-attached storage have plenty of options. Most businesses go for a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) unit, while enthusiasts and home users can go for either COTS or...
25 by Ganesh T S on 7/27/2015
Synology Launches RC18015xs+ / RXD1215sas High-Availability Cluster Solution
Synology is no stranger to high-availability (HA) systems. Synology High Availability is touted as one of the features that differentiate Synology's NAS units from other vendors' for small business...
4 by Ganesh T S on 6/11/2015
Synology Launches ARM-based DS1515 and RS815 Value Series NAS Units
Synology introduced their x15+ series in the second half of 2014. The models were all based on the Intel Rangeley platform (x86). It is now time for a refresh...
43 by Ganesh T S on 4/14/2015
Western Digital My Cloud DL4100 Business NAS Review
Western Digital is a comparatively recent entrant to the fast-growing NAS market. Despite having had a Windows Storage Server-based product for business users for some time now, a custom...
27 by Ganesh T S on 3/4/2015
Synology DS2015xs Review: An ARM-based 10G NAS
Synology is one of the most popular COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) NAS vendors in the SMB / SOHO market segment. The NAS models introduced by them in 2014 were mostly...
51 by Ganesh T S on 2/27/2015
Western Digital My Cloud NAS Updates Target Prosumers and Small Businesses
Western Digital is no stranger to the NAS market. Their Sentinel series units (based on Windows Storage Server) have targeted business users for quite some time now. The My...
1 by Ganesh T S on 2/26/2015
QNAP Launches TVS-x71U Haswell-based Rackmount NAS Units
At CES, QNAP had the TVS-x71 series of NAS models in the tower form factor. Bay counts ranged from 4 to 8. Users had a choice of four different...
2 by Ganesh T S on 1/21/2015
Synology Introduces RS815+ and DS2415+ Rangeley NAS Units
Synology announced two new NAS models today as updates to the existing RS814+ and the DS2413+ units. Both models are based on the 4C/4T Intel Atom C2538 Rangeley SoC...
9 by Ganesh T S on 1/20/2015
Netgear Introduces ReadyNAS 3130 Rackmount NAS
Netgear is introducing a trio of products targeting SMBs and SMEs today. The primary product is a modular switch chassis, while the second one is a new WLAN controller...
0 by Ganesh T S on 1/19/2015
Netgear Launches ARM Cortex-A15-based ReadyNAS 200 Series
Netgear's major announcement at CES 2015 was the ReadyNAS 200 series of NAS units targeting the SOHO market and power users. This lineup has two members, a 2-bay RN202...
10 by Ganesh T S on 1/15/2015
QNAP Releases Haswell-based TVS-x71 and Cortex-A15-based TS-x31+ NAS Lineups
QNAP took the SMB / SOHO NAS market segment by storm with a host of CES announcements. The release of the AMD G-series SoC-based TVS-x63 was undoubtedly QNAP's major...
6 by Ganesh T S on 1/14/2015
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