Is the Sipeed NanoKVM Safe? On-board Microphone Identified The Sipeed NanoKVM Cube is a low cost, network connected KVM built around the LicheeRV Nano RISC-V module, and recent reporting has drawn attention to the fact that this first generation hardware quietly inherited an onboard analog microphone from that core board. While the LicheeRV Nano documentation […]
Jonsbo N6 9-Bay NAS Case Coming Soon The Jonsbo N6 is the latest entry in the company’s NAS oriented chassis range and introduces a more conventional tower layout while keeping the compact profile that has defined the N series. It offers space for nine drives, a choice of ITX or micro ATX motherboards, and support […]
Black Friday Terramaster NAS Deals Now Live Black Friday 2025 brings some of the strongest price cuts Terramaster has offered to date, with major reductions across the entire lineup of NAS and DAS systems. Flagship units like the F4-424 Max drop from $899.99 to $629.99, the F6-424 Max sees deep reductions on high-capacity six-bay storage, […]
A device like this is designed is designed to give you BIOS level access to the computer in case you needed to reinstall the OS or update the BIOS firmware
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I'm a beginner. Two power supplies seem essential to me because the three SATA/PATA cables from the first PSU are barely enough to support the backplane. G
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I'm planning to buy a Jonsbo N6 case. Before doing so, I'd like to understand how the power connectors work. The N6 has two SATA power connectors and two M
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so far, my experience with TS-464 has been hellacious ...
2x16GB Crucial 3200mhz seem to work fine... as soon as system comes under load it dies within 10
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You wrote that the IronWolf HDDs were in Raid 1. Raid 1 is a mirror, so write speeds won't increase, especially not for writes (reads, depending on the con
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Hello Thank you for your detailed tests, any chance you know how many years will this device be updated ? (firmware, security patchs ...) Thank you in adva
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In this article is wrong parameter in comparison table. Ts-464 has two build in M2 slots for nvme.
It's an inexplicable, major mistake by Qnap not to inclu
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In the fstab snippet in the article you should have a / after the PLEXVIDEOFOLDER, otherwise the share appears empty. Thanks for the guide, very handy.
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Mate, LFP battery is lithium battery. this is acid battery which is pretty shit.
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although not a big deal, it is not pure sin wave output (even tesla power walls are) and when power is back on, it does not seems to power on the devices (
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Would be intrested to know how the atx controller connects and how it brings the required usb connection out of the pc
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There is another version of this with thinner cable .
FENVI 10Gbps AQC113 M.2 B+M To RJ45 Network Card Ethernet Network Adapter Single-Port LAN Controller
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There are 2 WD60EFPX's in the table.
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I have the WTR Pro with the N150. It has been running well for three months, but all a sudden it just died and it's almost new. I contacted Aoostar who tol
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Hi there, I'm looking to build my own NAS and need a motherboard. I'm wondering if you're planning an update for this article in the next while, to show so
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30TB new drives still not in stores, only used 28TB ones. Hope someone push through and bring 40TB and bigger ones soon, wish there were hdds big enough to
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Have you seen that there are some new models listed at the UL Certification?
https://productiq.ulprospector.com/en/profile/2858425/azot.e513863?term=AZOT&a
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Hey !
Can you tell me which hard drive is quieter : the Seagate Ironwolf (ST4000VN006) or the Seagate Skyhawk (ST4000VX016) ?
Thanks !
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what about remote management? are there headers for the power and reset buttons?
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