Comparing the Synology DS920+ vs the QNAP TS-453Be NAS Drive When it comes to NAS devices in 2020, two of the biggest brands that you can invest in with your data are Synology and QNAP. In a short few years, these two network-attached storage brands have largely dominated the field in both the home and […]
Save yourself from the horror of losing all your data Some of your data is priceless. I know it is a hard fact to consider but from pictures of your child growing up, to those ones from your wedding day or of a lost relative – some data is truly irreplaceable and no amount of […]
New NAS Expansion for a New Decade – But Is the QNAP TL-D400S Worth Your Data? Expanding a NAS DRIVE is something that most business users that come to depend on their storage system will have to consider at some point. Whether it is because you are saving one today and/or bought small because your […]
Brand New QNAP TS-h973AX NAS with Triple Tier ZFS Media Support I have said it before and I will say it again, QNAP is the brand that you should look at when it comes to pushing innovation in the NAS industry. They were the first to introduce Thunderbolt NAS, fully-featured HDMI 2.0, DAS like connectivity […]
Make Your Synology NAS 5Gbe Equipped with the QNAP USB-to-5GbE Adapter For those of you who have been considering (or have already purchased) a Synology NAS in the last year or so, one of the things that the brand has never really engaged in heavily is the idea of greater-than-gigabit connectivity at the diskstation level. […]
Synology DS1621+ vs DS1618+ NAS Drive – Which Should You Buy Buying a new piece of hardware is always a mixture of excitement and nervous trepidation – the keenness to get a new solution up and running in your home/business to improve things, mixed with the concern to make sure it is absolutely the best […]
Synology DS1621+ vs QNAP TS-653D NAS Drive – Which Should You Buy? If you have been looking for a compact, desktop Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution that can accommodate a RAID 6 environment and still keep things under the £1000-1500 price tag (including hard drives) then chances are that you have been looking at 6-Bay […]
Synology DS1621+ vs DS1621xs+ NAS Drive – Which Should You Buy? Right now, if you wanted to buy a Synology Desktop NAS for RAID 6, you are a bit spoilt for choice. The growing popularity and viability of RAID 6 as a configuration (i.e having 2 drives of failure protection) has become far more acceptable […]
Brand New Synology DVA3221 GPU Card Enabled Surveillance Server for 2020/2021 One of the main reasons that a lot of businesses look at the Synology NAS platform is because they trust that their data will be safe. Synology has a fantastically good reputation in the field of NAS and part of that comes down to […]
Synology DS1621+ NAS Review Making the shift from a cloud service to your own private server can seem fantastically intimidating on the outset. However in recent years we have seen numerous user-friendly, yet cost-effective solutions arrive on the scene for most small-medium business users and few companies have done more to facilitate this migration than […]
NAS Bargains at Amazon this Prime Day 2020 If you have been looking for the right time to buy your first NAS this 2020, then you would be hard pushed to find a better time that Amazon Prime Day 2020. The event is going to last for the next 36 hours, so fast shopping is […]
Bargains and Deals on QNAP NAS Drives this Prime Day 2020 Amazon Prime day has come around again and for those of us with that Amazon Prime Subscription making it a little dent in our bank account each month, this seems reason enough for us to take the plunge and investing in some new IT […]
Bargains and Deals on Synology NAS Drives this Prime Day 2020 Yes, it’s back again. Amazon Prime day has come around again and for those of us with that Amazon Prime Subscription making it a little dent in our bank account each month, this seems reason enough for us to take the plunge and investing […]
Synology FS3600 Review – Is it Flash Enough for your Business? Of all the brands in the world of NAS that I talk about here on the blog and on YouTube, no brand has decided to target the rather elite and enterprise subject of flash storage with the alacrity of Synology. Although no strangers to […]
Tools To Help You Buy Right the First Time the Amazon Prime Day Everybody loves a bargain! Since 2015, Amazon has been hosting it’s very own special sales event that is only open to Amazon Prime account holders and although it was postponed earlier this year, Amazon Prime Day 2020 has been confirmed for October […]
Brand New Synology RS1221+ & RS2421+ NAS Revealed Yes, that’s correct, It looks like Synology will be releasing a couple of new 8-Bay and 12-Bay expandable rackmount solutions in their 2021 series, but before going any further, I want to give props to the r/synology community over on Reddit for this. IMPORTANT – Full Credit […]
New 4-Bay NAS for 2020 – Does the TS-451D2 Deserve Your Data? If you have been in the market for a 4-Bay/RAID5 solution and found this NAS review, then chances are that you already know a little about the QNAP TS-451D2. In fact, I will go a little further. There is a good chance that […]
Deploying a Virtual Machines on your NAS – Where to Download FREE VMs A network-attached storage (NAS) device can do ALOT of thing! Whether you purchased your NAS system for backups, for media, for surveillance or more, chances are that you likely use your NAS system for 1-2 main tasks. Because the technology has evolved […]
The New Synology DS1621+ NAS Drive for 2020 Yes, the DS1621+ NAS is coming! Hot on the heels of the Synology DS1621XS+ NAS (released in early September 2020), we today want to discuss a new Synology 6-Bay NAS that has been revealed, the Synology DS1621+ NAS is a device that a lot of users have […]
QNAP FINALLY Release a Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Upgrade Card for NAS – The QXP-T32P Well, it took a while (almost 5 years in fact) but we can finally confirm that QNAP is going to release a Thunderbolt3 PCIe Upgrade card for NAS, in the form of the brand new QXP-T32P! QNAP has been in the […]