Top 3 NAS for 2.5Gbe and 5Gbe of the Year Data is getting bigger! There is no avoiding it, the size of the data we generate every single day is constantly increasing and with worldwide access to the data getting more straight forward, the speed at which we want that data is growing too. The […]
New QNAP QGD-1602P NAS+Switch Device Revealed at CES 2020 After the early success of the QNAP NAS + Switch combination of the Guardian Switch in late 2019, it wasn’t a huge surprise that QNAP was going to do more with this product series. However, I did not expect a reveal so soon into 2020 in […]
Innovative QNAP TR-106C & TR-104C Thunderbolt3 + USB 3.2 RAID Expansions We are seeing lots of interesting new tech arriving from QNAP, the innovators of the NAS industry, at CES 2020 being revealed. However, of all the things being revealed, the TR-104C and TR-106C are the most demanded for existing QNAP NAS owners. New evolutions […]
Seagate Unveil a New Modular Storage Platform at CES 2020 – The Lyve Mobile Drive Storage System Seagate Technology announced at CES 2020 a revolutionary modular storage solution that can manage rapidly growing enterprise, cloud and edge data services in business into 2020. Alongside the reveal of this new multi-component storage system, it is also […]
Seagate and their Mach.2 HAMR Drives Near Release Seagate’s technology team reports that partners have begun integration development with both HAMR and our MACH.2 Multi Actuator technologies and technology nears production. Several partners displayed these advanced technologies, the new Seagate Exos 2X14 drive, and Seagate Nytro Data Center NVMe SSD Series drives in their booth […]
Choosing Between Solid State Drives and Hard Drives in 2020 With the invention of SSD (Solid-State Disk or Solid-State Drive), the entire storage area has a significant change in performance. The most frequently asked question is what’s the difference between the traditional HDD (Hard Disk Drive) and SSD? They are similar in the external physical […]
Wi-Fi 6 Laptop Upgrade Guide – Why Upgrade? To have a complete Wi-Fi 6 upgrade and enjoy the potential bandwidth and speed benefits of the latest variety of wireless connectivity, you will need to have two things in place. First, you need a router and at least one client (Mobile, Tablet, PC, Laptop, etc) supporting […]
The Best Network Switches for your NAS in 2020 A network switch is a smart means to manage, control, configure and connect all of your network devices. Many people often get routers and switches confused and this is perfectly understandable. At first, second and third glance they seem near enough identical. A both that lives […]
Synology Branded SSDs in SATA and NVMe Coming in 2020 Good news for all NAS users that like to keep their hardware as uniform as possible, with the newly leaked information that Synology plan on releasing their own branded solid-state drives at some point in 2020. Although this information is still pretty early in the […]
Seagate Ironwolf 510 NVMe SSD for NAS – Game Changer or Gimmick? Early last year, when I first heard that Seagate was a developing a range of solid-state drives (SSD) to be used in NAS servers, I have to admit I was a little dubious. The announcement of a brand new Ironwolf NVMe m.2 based […]
Choosing Between Smart and Dumb Switches in 2020 First things first, before we go ahead and explain the differences between Managed and Unmanaged Switches, let’s talk about what a Switch is. A Switch, in networking terms, is a piece of networking hardware that connects multiple devices together on one Local Area Network (LAN), by using […]
Choosing the Right QNAP NAS Expansion – A Handy Guide QNAP has been in the business of selling Network Attached Storage Solutions for well over a decade now and has gained a huge following of home and business class hardware end users. NAS drives use a system of storage and redundancy to help keep your […]
WD Red 2TB, 4TB and 6TB NAS Hard Drives Use SMR / DM-SMR IMPORTANT – This Article has been updated on 23/04/2020 with Information Provided by an official statement and hardware breakdown from Western Digital, from their official blog. This post has been updated accordingly with these new details. WD Statement: “The past week has […]
Choosing a Seagate SSD – Get it Right First Time Making sure you buy the right storage media for your hardware is so very important. In the old days, when buying Hard Drives, it was so much simpler, as the technology was diverse but much easier to understand. With newer and faster flash media, the […]
Synology E10M20 10G and NVMe SSD Cache Card is Available Well, we had to wait a while didn’t we, but finally, we can confirm that the brand new official Synology 10Gbe and m.2 NVMe SSD upgrade card is released. I say ‘released’, the Synology E10M20-T1 has been officially launched, which generally means that stock at […]
802.11AX Supported Wi-Fi 6 Card from QNAP Coming Soon Good news for anyone who owns a QNAP NAS with a spare PCIe slot – WiFi 6 (AKA 802.11AX) is coming to QNAP NAS in the form of the QXP-W6-AX200 upgrade wireless NIC! If you weren’t already aware, the latest convention in wireless connectivity, currently providing […]
Synology NAS SSD Caching – Is There a Difference Between NVMe and SATA SSD Use If you have purchased a Synology NAS in the last 2-3 years in the ‘PLUS’ series of devices (eg. DS920+, DS1019+, DS720+, DS918+, RS1619XS+, etc) then chances are one of the reasons that you considered it was because of the […]
Brand New QMIRO-201W Mesh Router System Wi-Fi System from QNAP Good news for anyone that has been holding out for a next-generation mesh router system, with recently leaked news that QNAP is developing their own tri-band mesh router system for home and business. Although they are not the first NAS brand to enter the mesh […]
QNAP FINALLY Release a Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Upgrade Card for NAS – The QXP-T32P Well, it took a while (almost 5 years in fact) but we can finally confirm that QNAP is going to release a Thunderbolt3 PCIe Upgrade card for NAS, in the form of the brand new QXP-T32P! QNAP has been in the […]
Make Your Synology NAS 5Gbe Equipped with the QNAP USB-to-5GbE Adapter For those of you who have been considering (or have already purchased) a Synology NAS in the last year or so, one of the things that the brand has never really engaged in heavily is the idea of greater-than-gigabit connectivity at the diskstation level. […]