GL.iNet Slate 7 Travel Router @ CES 2025 As someone who travels a lot professionally and personally, having a decent mobile router is absolutely essential for me. At any given time, I carry a mobile phone, a laptop, a tablet, and a network-enabled camera. The minute you start traveling with my partner or colleagues professionally, […]
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New Lincstation S1 and N2 NAS Revealed It seems like yesterday that we were talking about the chinese laptop and tablet brand Lincplus, and their intentions to extend their business into the world of NAS with their Lincstation N1 flash solution. However, in reality, that was all the way back in October 2024 in their […]
Not to be confused with Buffalo LinkStation.
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Robbie,
Are we any chance of seeing Synology release something more prosumer market aimed primarily at the multi media users which I think is a segment
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TerraMaster seem to have comparable solution in the works.. I'm intrigued by it, but not enough to jump ship yet!
https://www.terra-master.com/us/centra
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Patriot PSD416G26662S (16GB) works on DS920+
DSM 7.2.2-72806 Update 2
No warning
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There is a typo in the specs. It's 4 cores Zen5 and 8 cores Zen5c, not Zen4 as incorrectly listed in the table (but then corrected in the main body text).
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Too bad the CPU doesn't support pcei 5.0. The Samsung 990 Evo Plus supports PCIe 5.0 x2. So with lanes so constrained on this board you get theoritically
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After weeks of testing:
HANDS OFF, if you plan to use it in a Windows environment!
Active Directory integration is a joke
- it imports alls users wi
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I was only commenrting recently that there's been little modern alternative to the old HP microserver gen8 (and still not at the price that thing went for!
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Knights of Columbus!
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Comprei e a internet não passa de 100mbps! Alguém pode me ajudar? Tanto no computador, como no celular.. não passa de 100mbps com esse adaptador wl-nwu
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Salut j'ai acheté le D-Link DWR 2101 mais lorsque j'incère la SIM il n'y a pas de réseau je suis dans un pays de l'Afrique le TOGO ma question est : est
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Please learn the difference between the word "it's" and the word "its." Spelling matters.
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How are you providing power to the Raspberry Pis USB-C using the barrel jacks from the DC PDU Lite?
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I'm in Auckland, New Zealand.
Based on YouTube reviews, I went out and picked up a TS-462 yesterday (31 Dec 2024), planning to upgrade with some old la
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Noticed that the SSD shows up as /dev/sdza. Shouldn't it be /dev/nvme0? Does this mean there's some incompatibility with the SSD? I'm asking because I have
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Hi Robbie. I noticed that the url in the article to `jellyfish-55-mbps-hd-h264.mkv` file links to `jellyfish-50-mbps-hd-hevc.mkv` file in Google Drive.
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nice
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TUC-ET2G (Type-C) dont work on my qnap TS-251+
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Hello, I think this method of replacing the hard drive does not work. I did everything according to this instruction, but an error message appeared - Stora
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servershop24 has listed 28tb seagate as well, please add it to the article. personally, i'm waiting for 30-32tb seagate which by current pricing, shouldn't
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