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 […]
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4-5 bay DAS with TB3/USB 3.2 Gen 2 connectivity
Qnap USB One Touch Copy versus Synology USB Copy
Seagate Firecuda Beskar Ingot External USB Hard Drive Review
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 & 3rd Party Hard Drives – Can You Still Use Them?
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 […]
WD Red Pro 20TB NAS Hard Drive Review & Benchmark
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 […]
WD Ultrastar DC HC560 20TB Hard Drive Review
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 […]
WD Red Pro 22TB Hard Drive Review
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 […]
Qnap TS-264 NAS with 2.5GbE LAN, M.2 SSD cache and HDMI 2.0
Qnap TS-264 NAS with 2.5GbE LAN, M.2 SSD cache and HDMI 2.0 TS-264-8G CPU Intel® Celeron® N5105/N5095 4-core/4-thread processor (up to 2.9 GHz) CPU architecture 64-bit x86 graphics processor Intel® UHD Graphics floating point operations encryption engine (AES-NI) hardware acceleration shift system memory 8 GB built-in (not expandable) maximum memory 8 GB flash memory 4 […]
New Seagate Ironwolf Pro NAS Hard Drives – Say Hello to the NT Series!
Seagate Update Ironwolf Pro Hard Drive Series with a new More Durable Enterprise NT Model If you have been on the fence for a while about choosing the right Hard drive for your NAS, humming and ahhing about whether to choose a Pro series drive or an enterprise-class drive, then Seagate just made things a […]
SMART-UPS Compatible with DS918+
Best hard drives (HDD) for Synology NAS
Can you connect a NAS via USB directly?
Qnap TS-462 Celeron-based NAS with 2.5GbE LAN and NVME cache
Qnap TS-462 Celeron-based NAS with 2.5GbE LAN and NVME cache TS-462-2G CPU Intel® Celeron® N4505 2-core/2-thread processor, burst up to 2.9 GHz CPU Architecture 64-bit x86 Graphic Processors Intel® UHD Graphics Floating Point Unit Encryption Engine (AES-NI) Hardware-accelerated Transcoding System Memory 2 GB SO-DIMM DDR4 (1 x 2 GB) Maximum Memory 16 GB (2 x […]
Seagate Ironwolf Pro vs WD Red Pro vs Synology HAT5300 Hard Drives – Best for your NAS?
Seagate Ironwolf or WD Red or Synology HAT5300 HDDs – Best for your NAS? Choosing the right hard drive media to go inside your Network Attached Storage (NAS) server can be a lot more complicated than you might think. A long time ago (about 20 years at least) buying hard drives was much easier, as […]
Synology SRM 1.3 Software Review Part 5 – USB Storage Services & Conclusion
Synology Router Manager 1.3 Review Chapters SRM 1.3 Synology Router Software Review, ALL Parts – HERE SRM 1.3 Synology Router Software Review, Part 1, Design & Control – HERE SRM 1.3 Synology Router Software Review, Part 2, Safety & Security – HERE SRM 1.3 Synology Router Software Review, Part 3, Network Management – HERE […]
A-USBLAN-2.5G Terra-Master USB to LAN adapter
A-USBLAN-2.5G Terra-Master USB to LAN adapter A-USBLAN-2.5G The A-USBLAN-2.5G is a 2.5Gb USB to Ethernet adapter specially adapted for TerraMaster TNAS devices. Connect the Ethernet adapter to a TNAS’s USB 3.0 host to obtain up to 2.5G bandwidth on your TNAS. It is backward compatible with 10/100/1000Mbps network environment, and supports IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, […]
Max Hard Drive Size on Synology NAS
Compatible UPS for Synology NAS
Qnap TS-464 quad-core 2.5GbE NAS with M.2 NVMe cache
The QNAP TS-464 and TS-664 NAS Coming Soon QNAP has now finally started sharing details of their prosumer/SMB 4/6-Bay for 2022 with the soon to be arriving TS-464 and TS-664 NAS Drives. Even at a casual glance, these are almost certainly the new version of their flagship series (though details on a 2-Bay TS-264 are […]