A Guide to Buying the Right USB Drive for Shucking Right – First Time If you are looking at making a significant saving on larger capacity HDDs or picking up much faster NVMe SSDs for a bargain price, then shucking will likely be one of the first methods that you have considered. For the uninitiated, […]
Breaking news! The new D6-320 6-bay USB 3.2 Gen2 10Gbps External Hard Disk Enclosure has been released and it’s set to revolutionize the storage industry! With its high-speed capabilities, the D6-320 boasts a data transmission bandwidth of 10Gbps and can achieve read/write speeds of up to 1,030MB/s when all 6 hard drives are installed. But […]
Seagate EXOS Mach.2 HDD – Should You Buy It? Seagate revealed the dual actuator EXOS Mach.2 series of HDDs way back in 2019 at CES, promising that this new kind of HDD for enterprise could smash the current performance benchmarks set by optical HDDs. Fast forward to 2023 and they have been hard at work […]
What are the Quietest hard drives for NAS I work with a lot of photo and video files, therefore I need a way to store everything. I have two 5TB Toshiba X300 drives, bought around 5 years ago, which have been rarely used in an external enclosure. Recently I built a new desktop PC and […]
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 […]
Exciting news for tech enthusiasts! TerraMaster has just released the latest version of their operating system, TOS 5.1, packed with an array of new features and upgrades that will surely enhance your user experience. One of the most significant upgrades is the kernel update, which has been optimized to support EXT4/Btrfs/NTFs file systems and SMB3 […]
Is there a 2.5 GbE USB adapter for Synology? Before Aquantia based PCIe cards and adapters used to work. But Synology saw people using Qnap components inside Synology, so they blocked this chip. But realtek seems untouched still. Yes, looks like bb-qq has made this possible. Also someone in Germany has put this into practice. […]
2.15.0-4 DSM7.0 – credit to bb-qq/r8152 Added support of ASUS USB-C2500. USA UK 2.5 GbE USB adapter for Synology Note: The installation will fail the first time. After that, run the following command from the SSH terminal: sudo install -m 4755 -o root -D /var/packages/r8152/target/r8152/spk_su /opt/sbin/spk_su Users of DSM 6.2 should use past releases. […]
This is an comparison. Between 2 Seagate Exos Drives. Only difference is the Advanced Format.. One is 4kn and the other 512e … which one do you recomend , I am gonna have it in my Dell Poweredge T320. . on 24/7 . The choice between the 4kn and 512e Seagate Exos drives ultimately depends […]
Should You Use Fewer Larger HDDs or More Smaller HDDs? The technology behind hard drives has evolved RAPIDLY! In just the last few years we have seen HDDs hit over 20 terabytes, seen the number of platters being squeezed into a single hard drive casing reach more than 10 and the performance and durability of […]
I’ve went witn the Plugable USBC-EC2500. It is decently built and seems stable enough although I’m only using it the 2nd day. Here’s a link for it: UK https://amzn.to/3o3ba7T USA https://amzn.to/3o2W2Hw I’ve also made a little snapshot about the present of it in my Synology. The other things I use are the Qnap 2.5 and […]
Qtier vs SSD Cache which one to choose Yes, this NAS is all-in-one solution. And it is great for multimedia. Qtier is a combination of HDD and SSD volumes. But it is more useful in business environment. Based on your schedule Qnap will move data to SSD volume. So you will only see speed improvement […]
I work as a freelance composer in the UK, primarily out of my home studio – but the storage needs upgrading. I’m looking to upgrade from my cluttered array of many external drives to a DAS unit, as I don’t need anything with NAS capabilities – as I’ll only be accessing and using the unit […]
X570 Auros Extreme mobo (10Gbe, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C) Case is Fractal Design Define 7 (loads of HDD slots) I just bought 4 ea. 12 TB Iron Wolf NAS HDDs. I’d like some advice on how to deal with approx. 32 TB of data on a bunch of dusty, randomly sized HDDs my elderly […]
Do you happen to know if the quick copy button on the QNAP or Synology is dependent on the attached USB? If USB1, it knows to copy stuff1. If USB2, it knows to copy stuff2. Or, is it just one option? If you want to set up automated backup tasks in a way that NAS […]
Seagate Firecuda Beskar Ingot USB External Hard Drive Review Generally, I rarely review USB drives here on NASCompares, as aside from external casing differences, they are generally all ‘much of a muchness. So, why am I breaking this rule today and reviewing the Seagate Firecuda External Hard drive? Well, let me explain. Buying a USB […]
Synology 2022/2023 NAS and WD & Seagate Hard Drive Compatibility If you have been considering a large-scale business or enterprise NAS solution from Synology in 2022/2023, then there is a good chance you have heard about a relatively recent change in how Synology has approached hard drive compatibility in this tier of their portfolio. This […]
Review of the MASSIVE WD Red Pro 20TB Hard Drive for NAS You really have to stop and marvel at the speed at which hard drives and storage, in general, grow every year. Despite the established rule of Moore’s law that these things double in size every two years, the very idea that Western Digital […]
Review of the WD Ultrastar HC560 20TB Hard Drive for NAS The speed at which Hard Drive technology has evolved has been pretty crazy. Not so long ago, many highly respected journals and tech sites were signing the death warrant of Hard drives, largely down to the growing affordability of SSDs, NAND storage capacity and […]
Review of the WD Red Pro 22TB Hard Drive for NAS Remember when everyone said that hard drives would be dead by 2020? Yes, to say that statement has been debunked so incredibly thoroughly that it seems a bit comical to think that HDDs were going to go away any time soon. Yes, SSDs still […]