1. Introduction High end NAS and AI workloads have reached a stage where consumer grade hardware is no longer enough. Local LLMs demand wide PCIe bandwidth and large memory pools, NAS arrays now rely heavily on NVMe for metadata and hot storage, and modern media workflows expect multigig transfers as a baseline. At the same […]
https://nascompares.com/podcasts/weekly/week17-2025.wav This week in NAS and enterprise tech saw a flurry of innovation and ecosystem shifts across the board. From Lenovo’s sweeping AI-optimized storage portfolio and MINISFORUM’s Ryzen-powered NAS monster, to Synology’s deepening hardware lock-in and TerraMaster’s global rollout of its compact U4-500 rackmount system—storage is getting smarter, faster, and more contentious. Sustainability also took […]
