Synology is closing the gap on third-party hard drive support further in 2025 Over the last few years, Synology have not been exact about being forward in supporting. Back in 2021, we started to see the brand reduce the number of third-party hard drives and SSDs on their systems. This diminishing support has manifested itself […]
Synology is closing the gap on third-party hard drive support further in 2025 Over the last few years, Synology have not been exact about being forward in supporting. Back in 2021, we started to see the brand reduce the number of third-party hard drives and SSDs on their systems. This diminishing support has manifested itself […]
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 […]
UniFi USB4/TB4 to 10GbE Adapter Review Given the preponderance of 10 Gb Ethernet solutions available in the UniFi portfolio, it’s actually kind of weird that the brand has waited until almost halfway through 2025 to launch a convenient USB to 10G NIC adapter. To put it into perspective, the first generation of Thunderbolt to 10 […]
In recent weeks, reports have surfaced regarding fraudulent sales of Seagate hard drives, where used enterprise-class HDDs were falsely marketed as new. Customers purchasing these drives, particularly from online retailers, have discovered signs of prior use, including high operating hours hidden within diagnostic metrics. This scandal has raised concerns over supply chain integrity, with many […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
An Easy Guide to Buying the Right UPS for your NAS System The popularity of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) has risen significantly in recent years. Not just for businesses, but for home users as well, who often have limited power setups such as houseboats, pop-up offices, and mobile homes. The value of having a safety […]
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 […]
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