Review of the Nextorage NEM-PA PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD Why should you care about the Nextorage NEM-PA SSD? It is a reasonable question at the start of 2022, as it is fair to say that there are now quite a lot of SSDs available in the market that promise upwards and over 7,000MB/s. The […]
Reviewing the Eagle PS5 Designed Heatsink for SSD Upgrades Technology moves fast! What was once considered fantastically unique and ‘one-off’ can all too soon become remarkably mainstream. Which is how we find the Eagle PS5 SSD Heatsink and its appearance on the console market. When Sony enabled SSD upgrades on the Playstation 5, the need […]
Asustor Drivestor 2 Review – Low-Cost Cloud Alternative? With Network Attached Storage (NAS) becoming such a well established and easy to use alternative to cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox, it comes as no surprise that most brands in this industry need to be quite diverse in their portfolio. In the same way that […]
PS5 SSD Expansion Testing with the Titanium Micro TH7175 SSD Although not really a brand that is heard of much in the gaming arena, Titanium Micro have a full range of SSD solutions that are all too familiar to enterprise SSD hardware clients. However, their recent TH7175 SSD has the potential to be a great […]
Review of the Addlink A90 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD The Addlink A90 is an unusual SSD, to say the least, with its promise of PCIe performance at a price tag approaching that of PCIe3. In the short period of time that Sony has enabled the PS5 m.2 NVMe SSD Expansion bay, around 30-35 mainline […]
Is the Synology DS920+ NAS Still Worth Buying in 2021? First released back in Summer 2020, the Synology DS920+ was the latest generation release for their prosumer 4-Bay NAS series (following the DS918+ and DS916+ before) and quickly gained considerable acclaim. Although not an enormous deviation from its predecessor, it arrived with greater support of […]
The QNAP TBS-464 NVMe SSD NAS Drive Review The new NVMe SSD focused NAS Drive from QNAP, the TBS-464, is the first entry by the brand in their largely 2022 focused TS-x64 series and one that certainly left me a tad surprised when it was revealed. The use of SSDs in NAS servers is by […]
Synology DS3622xs+ NAS Review – Game Changer? Reviewing the new Synology DS3621xs+ NAS is something that is going to be a little tough, given the huge range of buyers who see this particular server as the ‘ultimate private desktop NAS server’. If you have been looking at moving your mid-to-high sized company data operations away […]
Reviewing the Elecgear PS5 Designed Heatsink for SSD Upgrades The Elecgear heatsink for PS5 is an unusual piece of kit, there is no denying it. Every since the option to upgrade the storage on your PS5 via the M.2 SSD expansion bay was activated, many Playstation 5 gamers have had to learn a few new […]
Review of the XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD Of all of the brands that are spread across the SSD industry, very few have the same level of market coverage of ADATA. With a strong memory division that has resulted in their hardware being featured in countless hardware clients in home and […]
Reviewing the INEO PS5 Designed Heatsink for SSD Upgrades Ever since Sony enabled the storage upgrade feature of the PS5, the sudden need for understanding the architecture of M.2 SSDs has increased dramatically. The super-fast PCIe Gen 4 M.2 NVMe SSDs that are required to increase your PS5 storage differ wildly in shape, size and […]
Review of the Addlink A92 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD I think it would be fair to say that NVMe SSDs that take advantage of QLC NAND in order to provide a much lower price point get a bit of a bad RAP. The Addlink A92 SSD from Addlink is the 3rd and lowest priced […]
Review of the Sabrent Rocket PCIe 4.0 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD Of all the brands that have embraced the PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD revolution, few have been as aggressive as Sabrent. In a little over 10 months, they not only released their first PCIe4 SSD, but then fleshed out an entire multi-tiered range […]
Asustor Drivestor 4 Review – Cost-Effective Cloud? Asustor’s latest NAS release, the Drivestor 4, certainly has a very specific target audience in mind. Making the jump from public and 3rd party cloud services can be a fantastically intimidating move! Cloud services such as OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive and more present you with internet-based cloud space […]
The PNY XLR8 PS5 SSD Heatsink Review When PNY announced they were releasing a PS5 designed SSD heatsink for their gamer XLR8 range, they did so into a market that just half a year ago would have been completely devoid of competition! It has been quite an educational period for many PS5 owners in the […]
Go to Qnap App Center and download nConnect 2. Install the Mobile Pro app on your smartphone 3. Install Client app nConnect on your computer (on Windows it will show a warning. Click advanced options and Run Anyway). 4. Create an account on a mobile app 5. Tap on a dataRide tab and then nConnect> […]
QSW-1208-8C user review My Qnap QSW-1208-8C died after three years. No throughput, dropped signals, erratic internet connections. Process of elimination lead me to the switch. Back to a good old fashioned Cisco 1gbe and I’m solid as a rock. Is it worth replacing the 10Gbe switch? My environment: I work in close proximity and found […]
New NAS Expansion for a New Decade – But Is the QNAP TL-D800C Worth Your Data? If you have been the owner of a NAS server for a few years, you know that available space will always be an eventual barrier in the end. Even in the very early days of network-attached storage it was […]
New NAS Expansion for a New Decade – But Is the QNAP TL-D800S Worth Your Data? Expanding a NAS DRIVE is something that most business users that come to depend on their storage system will have to consider at some point. Whether it is because you are saving one today and/or bought small because your […]
New NAS Expansion for a New Decade – But Is the QNAP TL-D400S Worth Your Data? Expanding a NAS DRIVE is something that most business users that come to depend on their storage system will have to consider at some point. Whether it is because you are saving one today and/or bought small because your […]