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NAS Hard Drives – Which Should You Buy?

Choosing the Best Hard Drives for your NAS Note – this is the 2024 update of the rolling ‘best HDD for your NAS’ article (Cheers Clayton!) When choosing a NAS server for your home or business, selecting the right hard drive is essential. Just like every tool in a toolbox has its role, NAS-specific drives […]

List Of compatible NVME M.2 SSD for Synology NAS cache

List Of compatible NVME M.2 SSD for Synology NAS cache

List Of compatible NVME M.2 SSD for Synology NAS When choosing NVMe for caching you need to look at reliability ratings such as DWPD/MTBF. Here are a few on the list https://nascompares.com/answer/nvme-m-2-list-with-endurance-dwpd-mtbf/ Caching means a lot of read and write operations, unlike regular storage situation. You would need to look at models with 0.5DWPD and […]

Synology USB to 5GbE Adapter Installation Guide

Guide: Using the Wavlink USB-to-5GbE Adapter on a Synology NAS If you’re looking to upgrade your Synology NAS’s network speed without investing in expensive native solutions, you can connect a Wavlink USB-to-5GbE adapter. While this adapter isn’t officially supported by Synology, users have developed workarounds to make it function. This guide will walk you through […]

List of WD CMR and SMR hard drives (HDD)

List of WD CMR and SMR hard drives (HDD)

List of WD CMR and SMR hard drives (HDD)   Find if your drive is SMR by HDD model number If you know an SMR type of drive, share it with others in a table below!       PMR, also known as conventional magnetic recording (CMR), works by aligning the poles of the magnetic […]

Wavlink USB to 5GbE Adapter Review (WL-NWU340G-A)

Wavlink USB to 5GbE NIC Review- Worth Your Money and Your Data? Upgrading your network connectivity has grown increasingly easier over the last few years, largely thanks to several different network controller brands in the market that are pioneering the power efficiency and compatibility of their hardware towards more accessible client hardware. What that long […]

Aoostar TB4S-OC Review – USB4 and Oculink NVMe DAS

Aoostar TB4S-OC NVMe USB4 and Oculink DAS Review As much as I love to talk about network attached storage (NAS), I would be lying if I said I didn’t have a soft spot for direct attached storage (DAS – also referred to as locally accessed storage). Even though traditional NAS has been around now for […]

The Synology ActiveProtect DP Series – DEDICATED BACKUPS

Synology Launches a New Backup-Focused Server Solution – ActiveProtect and the DP Series What is ActiveProtect and Why is Synology choosing 2024 to launch a completely new kind of solution into their portfolio? It’s a valid Q! I think it would be fair to say that Synology has been re-calibrating a lot of its solutions […]

Synology to introduce HAT3300 Plus Series Hard drives

Synology PLUS NAS Hard Drives – The HAT3300 Series For those who have been following the world of network Attached Storage (NAS) and more precisely, the developments of Synology, it might not come as a huge surprise that the brand is now in the process of rolling out a new series of HAT3300 Hard Drives […]

Terramaster Launch the D8 Hybrid HDD and NVMe DAS Box on Kickstarter NOW

Terramaster Launch the D8 Hybrid HDD and NVMe DAS Box on Kickstarter NOW

What is the Terramaster D8 Hybrid, and Why Should You Care? TerraMaster, the well known NAS company, has recently released the D8 Hybrid which is the industry’s first hybrid HDD NVMe SSD enclosure. It can hold 4 SATA HDDs/SSDs and 4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs, with a capacity of 24TB a drive, and 8TB per […]

Terramaster D8 Hybrid HDD and NVMe Enclosure Launching Soon

TerraMaster to Release D8 Hybrid, an Advanced HDD and NVMe Storage Solution TerraMaster is set to introduce the D8 Hybrid to Kickstarter on the 7th May 2024, an 8-bay RAID storage enclosure that combines traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) with faster solid-state drives (SSDs). This new device offers a total storage capacity of up to […]

Seagate 24TB Ironwolf Pro NAS Hard Drive Review

The Seagate Ironwolf Pro 24TB HDD Review Seagate and their Ironwolf series of hard drives have fast become a mainstay of the NAS landscape in a relatively short time, considering their NAS HDD and eventual rebranding to Ironwolf in 2015/2016. In that time they have closed considerable ground on their biggest rival in this field, […]

TerraMaster launches an Updated 4-Bay D4-320, with USB3.2 10 Gbit/s

TerraMaster launches an Updated 4-Bay D4-320, with USB3.2 10 Gbit/s

New design for expanding storage space on PC and NAS The professional company TerraMaster, which specializes in providing innovative storage solutions for private users and businesses, recently launched the D4-320, the updated USB storage of its previous version D4-300. The configured USB interface was directly upgraded from the 5 Gbit/s USB3.1 to the 10 Gbit/s […]

Synology BeeStation Hard Drive Upgrade – Complete Guide

How to Upgrade the Hard Drive in Your BeeStation Why Would You want to change the hard drive in the Synology Beestation? Whether you are an existing owner of the Synology Beestation or a potential NAS buyer who is considering moving away from public cloud services onto your own personal cloud, the Beestastion and BSM […]

New Terramaster D4-320 4-Bay USB (10Gbit) JBOD Disk Enclosure

New Terramaster D4-320 4-Bay USB (10Gbit) JBOD Disk Enclosure

  Introducing the TerraMaster D4-320: A New Era of High-Speed Data Storage Terramaster, a leading provider of storage solutions, has unveiled its latest innovation, the D4-320 4-Bay USB JBOD Disk Enclosure. This refreshed model promises enhanced performance and convenience, catering to the evolving needs of users seeking reliable storage solutions. Packed with advanced features and […]

TerraMaster Launches D5 Hybrid-the Industry’s First 5bay USB3.2 Hybrid Storage

TerraMaster Launches D5 Hybrid-the Industry’s First 5bay USB3.2 Hybrid Storage

Offering an Ideal Storage Solution for Hot and Cold Data – The D5 Arrives TerraMaster, a professional brand that focuses on providing innovative storage products for homes and businesses, has recently released the D5 Hybrid which is the industry’s first hybrid HDD NVMe SSD enclosure. It can hold 2 SATA HDDs/SSDs and 3 M.2 2280 […]