FULL Review of the TrueNAS Software – And Now For Something Completely Different… Have you been considering a NAS for a few years, but looked at the price tag that off the shelf featured solutions from Synology or QNAP and thought “wow, that seems rather expensive for THAT hardware”? Or are you someone that wants […]
Qnap ES2486dc 2U Rackmount NAS ES2486dc-2142IT-128G ES2486dc-2142IT-96G CPU Intel® Xeon® D-2142IT 8-core 1.90 GHz processor, up to 3.0 GHz CPU Architecture 64-bit x86 Floating Point Unit Encryption Engine (AES-NI) System Memory 64 GB RDIMM DDR4 ECC (4 x 16 GB) per controller Maximum Memory 512 GB (8 x 64GB) Memory Slot 8 x R-DIMM/LR-DIMM DDR4 […]
Qnap ES1686dc 3U Rackmount NAS ES1686dc-2142IT-128G ES1686dc-2142IT-96G ES1686dc-2123IT-64G CPU Intel® Xeon® D-2142IT 8-core 1.90 GHz processor (burst up to 3.0 GHz) per controller CPU Architecture 64-bit x86 Floating Point Unit Encryption Engine (AES-NI) System Memory 64 GB RDIMM DDR4 ECC (4 x 16 GB) per controller Maximum Memory 512 GB (8 x 64GB) Memory Slot […]
TerraMaster Introduces 12-Bay T12-423 High-Performance NAS Terramaster continues to roll out their new ‘423’ series of devices and for those that thought the recent 9-Bay solution that was revealed was intriguing will be pleased to hear that Terramaster have doubled down o this and crafted a new 12-Bay NAS solution in the T12-423. The Terramaster […]
Dirty Pipe Linux Weakness and Why You and your Linux Based NAS Should Care? For those that might not be aware, a vulnerability in Linux kernel 5.8 and above was disclosed by Max Kellerman last week and publically disclosed (with a proof of concept demonstrating the weakness) and this vulnerability was reported (tracked under CVE-2022-0847) […]
What file format is NAS? Here is an internal drive file system available on different NAS systems. Btrfs. – Synology Asustor EXT4 – Synology, Qnap, Asustor and others ZFS. – Qnap External Drives connected can be: Btrfs EXT4 EXT3 FAT NTFS HFS+ exFAT* But this means nothing since you connect via the network. The […]
SHR (drive mixing) compatible NAS list
Qnap TS-h1290FX 12-bay U.2 NVMe/ SATA all-flash NAS with ZFS and ECC memory
TS-h1886XU-RP-D1622-32G and TS-h1886XU-RP-R2-D1622-32G
A TrueNAS and iXsystems Questions & Answers Interview If you have been on the fence about moving into the world of using the open-source platform TrueNAS for your private server, there is a good chance that the rather elite level server software is leaving you a pinch intrigued. The big ZFS optimized software that is […]
Latest Terramaster NAS TOS 5 Software Now Available to Test in Beta If you are a terramaster user and have been wondering what the brand has had in store for it’s software in 2022, it would appear that they have been working busily on a host of improvements, upgrades and new features for the latest […]
Deadbolt Ransomware Attacking NAS Drives Again – This time it is Terramaster It pains me to make this post, but yes, Deadbolt ransomware has once again attacked NAS drives and this time the target is Terramaster devices. Although exact details on the attack vector of this ransomware are yet to be confirmed (though I will […]
Terramaster NAS Devices Being Targetted by Ransomware – IMPORTANT If you are a current Terramaster NAS user, then immediately log into your system and check that your data is in order. In a little over the last week, numerous users have been reporting that their TNAS systems have been hit by ransomware attacks (bearing similarity […]
TerraMaster Introduces 9-Bay T9-423 High-Performance NAS In the last few years, it would be fair to say that I have seen ALOT of NAS drives. However, the latest release from Terramaster is quite a unique piece of kit and although it brings a bunch of ‘brand firsts’ to the desktop buyer’s market, it does so […]
A Guide to the Best 10GbE NAS Drives to Buy Right Now Data is getting big, like REALLY BIG. From the phone in your pocket taking photos at 10MB+ a go, movies arriving at 4K Ultra HD HDR as an excepted scale and internet connectivity easily breaking into greater than gigabit speeds, we are fast […]
NAS vs the Cloud – Should you choose between them or go for both? We, as a species, produce so much data! There is no sugar-coating it, we are producing as many megabytes and gigabytes as we are popping out babies. All those bits and bytes have to go somewhere. How much data do you think […]
WD Red 20TB NAS Hard Drives Now Available Good news for anyone looking at buying a new NAS system and wanting to max out their storage on day one, or users looking up increasing their existing storage, with the release of the new WD Red Pro 20TB NAS Hard Drive. Arriving with the same level […]
How do hackers attack you Zero-day Phishing Zero-day when attackers attack from outside through outdated software, through known vulnerabilities that are not yet patched. How to secure your Network? Secure your router Check open ports and close unnecessary ports Enable firewall disable ping response disable port forwarding [if there is no firewall and other […]
If you own an Asustor NAS and are reading this – CHECK IT NOW Original Article – As of around 1 hour ago, multiple users online are reporting that their Asustor NAS systems have been attacked by ransomware known as Deadbolt. Much like the ransomware attack of QNAP NAS systems of the same name, this […]
How to secure your network & Synology NAS – install UniFi Firewall Install Docker [Package Center->Docker->Install] Installing UniFi Controller -open docker -open Registry tab -In the search bar enter jacobalberty and click Search –Double-click on the jacobalberty/unifi image -Go to the Image tab. -When the download has been completed, the Launch button will […]
