A Guide to the Best 5/6-Bay NAS Drives to Buy Right Now In recent years, the appeal of 5-Bay and 6-Bay NAS systems has dramatically increased, particularly since 2023/2024. Previously, home and small-business users tended to opt for either modest 2/4 Bay systems or jump to the larger 8-Bay models when needing more storage capacity. […]
A Guide to the Best 5/6-Bay NAS Drives to Buy Right Now In recent years, the appeal of 5-Bay and 6-Bay NAS systems has dramatically increased, particularly since 2023/2024. Previously, home and small-business users tended to opt for either modest 2/4 Bay systems or jump to the larger 8-Bay models when needing more storage capacity. […]
What does each of them have different? DS420j vs. DS418 vs. DS423 vs. DS420+ vs. DS423+ vs. DS923+ vs DVA3221. DS423 Good for multimedia using Synology Apps (h264 support) (Plex and h265 seem to be an issue) DS423+ Good for multimedia and easy backup functions and is upgradeable. Has high availability option. Now two extra CPU […]
New Super Sized Desktop Storage – QNAP TS-1655 HDD+SSD ZFS Solution CPU Intel ® Atom® C5125 8-core processor, up to 2.8GHz CPU architecture 64-bit x86 graphics processor Intel UHD Graphics floating point operations Yes encryption engine Yes system memory 8 GB UDIMM DDR4 (1 x 8 GB) maximum memory 256GB (4 x 64GB) memory slot […]
X570 Auros Extreme mobo (10Gbe, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C) Case is Fractal Design Define 7 (loads of HDD slots) I just bought 4 ea. 12 TB Iron Wolf NAS HDDs. I’d like some advice on how to deal with approx. 32 TB of data on a bunch of dusty, randomly sized HDDs my elderly […]
The QNAP TS-364 NAS Drive Review QNAP are now very much in the process of slowly rolling out their new Prosumer and SMB series for 2022, but when it comes to the unit that they are slowly releasing, you can definitely see that they are being a great deal smarter (tactically) than previous generations. Alongside […]
The QNAP TS-364 NAS Drive Review QNAP are now very much in the process of slowly rolling out their new Prosumer and SMB series for 2022, but when it comes to the unit that they are slowly releasing, you can definitely see that they are being a great deal smarter (tactically) than previous generations. Alongside […]
The QNAP HS-264 NAS Review – Sensibly Silent? I think it would be fair to say that QNAP has quite a few different NAS ranges in their portfolio. From hefty enterprise rackmounts and thunderbolt machines, to compact prosumer desktops and modest entry-level systems, the majority of their solutions all seemingly share the same physically architecture […]
The QNAP HS-264 NAS Review – Sensibly Silent? I think it would be fair to say that QNAP has quite a few different NAS ranges in their portfolio. From hefty enterprise rackmounts and thunderbolt machines, to compact prosumer desktops and modest entry-level systems, the majority of their solutions all seemingly share the same physically architecture […]
QNAP TS-464 or the TS-453D NAS Drive – Which Should You Buy? Are you considering the QNAP TS-464 now it has been released? Or thinking of saving some money and opting for the predecessor TS-453D that is currently on sale? It’s a tough decision for some that want to ensure value for money, yet remain […]
DS1522+ Ryzen based 5-bay NAS with optional 10GbE released today CPU CPU Model AMD Ryzen R1600 CPU Quantity 1 CPU Architecture 64-bit CPU Frequency 2-core 2.6 (base) / 3.1 (turbo) GHz Hardware Encryption Engine (AES-NI) Memory System Memory 8 GB DDR4 ECC SODIMM Memory Module Pre-installed 8 GB (8 GB x 1) Total Memory Slots […]
The Synology HD6500 Rackstation 60-Bay NAS is REAL and it is COMING Before I crack on and explain why the Synology HD6500 Rackstation NAS is a big deal, indulge me a little and let me tell you a story. I have been following the world of NAS (and data storage in general) for the bulk […]
QNAP TS-464 or the TS-453D NAS Drive – Which Should You Buy? Are you considering the QNAP TS-464 now it has been released? Or thinking of saving some money and opting for the predecessor TS-453D that is currently on sale? It’s a tough decision for some that want to ensure value for money, yet remain […]
Unique and Innovative TerraMaster D2-300 is a 2-bay USB hard drive enclosure with high-speed hard drive clone feature and misoperation protection. The tool-less hard drive tray allows you to quickly replace your hard drive while also providing protection for the hard drive. The intelligent temperature-controlled fan ensures that the hard drive is at an ideal […]
TS-435XeU quad-core ARM 4-bay 1U Rackmount low power NAS (Short depth – 292.12 mm) TS-435XeU-4G CPU Marvell OCTEON TX2™ CN9130 / CN9131 ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-core 2.2GHz processor CPU Architecture 64-bit ARM Floating Point Unit Encryption Engine System Memory 4 GB SODIMM DDR4 (1 x 4GB) Maximum Memory 32 GB (1 x 32 GB) Memory Slot […]
FS2500 Synology 1U rack 12-bay 2.5″ SATA SSD CPU CPU Model AMD Ryzen V1780B CPU Quantity 1 CPU Architecture 64-bit CPU Frequency 4-core 3.35 (base) / 3.6 (turbo) GHz Hardware Encryption Engine (AES-NI) Memory System Memory 8 GB DDR4 ECC UDIMM Memory Module Pre-installed 8 GB (8 GB x 1) Total Memory Slots 2 […]
TS-364 Celeron 3-bay NAS with 2.5GbE & M.2 NVMe TS-364-4G CPU Intel® Celeron® N5105/N5095 4-core/4-thread processor, burst up to 2.9 GHz CPU Architecture 64-bit x86 Graphic Processors Intel® UHD Graphics Floating Point Unit Encryption Engine (AES-NI) Hardware-accelerated Transcoding System Memory 4 GB SODIMM DDR4 (1 x 4 GB) Maximum Memory 16 GB (2 x 8 […]
Synology DS1019+ vs DS920+ NAS – Which to Buy? With the newest 2020/2021 generation of NAS drives being uncovered from Synology of late, those looking to buy a new NAS Drive can be broken down into three types. Those who looked at the new Synology 2020 diskstation NAS and said “yes please”, the ones who […]
New VTrak J5960 JBOD 4U 60bay High-Density Storage, Expansion up to 8 Petabytes • 60 Bay Enterprise Storage Platform • Massive capacity, cascade up to eight 4U60 JBOD enclosures Optimized for High-Performance Datacenter • Huge bandwidth with six 12 Gb SAS ports per IOM; more than 15GB/s aggregate transfer rate from 60pcs SAS HDDs • […]
TerraMaster release U8-522-9400 8-bay rack with Intel I5 9400 Powerful storage solution Featuring Intel I5 9400 2.9 GHz six-core processor, 8GB DDR4, 4 Gigabit network interfaces. Designed for flexible storage management, it offers over 500000IOPS and 3000MB per second continuous storage. High Scalability Configure four DDR4 slots to support up to 16GB of memory […]