Tag: NAS
Got An Old D-Link NAS Device? Dump It Just Like D-Link Has!
There are four models of D-Link NAS, all of which have hit end of service, which should definitely be immediately disconnected if you have them attached to anything. All four have a…
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Synology Pulls Some NASty Self-Validation From Under It’s HAT 5300
Synology just released a list of drives with capacities of at least 4TB which will be allowed to run in their Enterprise level NAS appliances, and if you have the temerity to…
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Fractal Node 804 Case Review: Companion Cube
Unlike the cake, this Fractal Design cube-like case is not a lie. Fractal started selling their Node 804 case a good number of years ago, and won the praise…
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Western Digital Addresses the WD Red SMR Controversy
In the wake of media coverage from the likes of Ars Technica on the subject, Western Digital has provided an update on the SMR (shingled magnetic recording) controversy...
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Seagate Says SMR Can Be NAS-ty
With the revelation that Western Digital's 2-6TB Red series of drives uses shingled drives, which causes unexpected and unwanted failures if one was to rebuild or resilver a NAS that used these…
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Seagate Shipping 16 TB Exos X and IronWolf PMR Hard Drives for Enterprise and NAS
While Seagate has been shipping 16 TB hard drives to hyperscale enterprise customers since late march, the company is finally bringing the high capacity drives to the broader retail...
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The best of storage; which is just a flash in the pan and which is here for the long term
TechSpot have taken a look at the current state of the storage market and have chosen what they feel are the best products in six different categories; enthusiast SSDs, mainstream SSDs, HDDs,…
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Synology DS1019+ Review: Powerful, Capable, Restrained
Synology this week is launching the DS1019+, a 5-bay counterpart to last year's 4-bay DS918+. Like most of the company's "Plus" series devices, it is...
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10 gigabits and 252 TB, it’s a seriously NASty peice of kit from Synology
Synology's DS 1819+ is quite the piece of NAS hardware, supporting an obnoxious amount of RAID varieties and can be specifically configured for just about any task you might want to assign…
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Synology DS1618+ Review: The Right Blend of Price, Performance, and Features
Synology's 2018 product lineup includes a new network-attached storage device that merges a prosumer price point with an enterprise-level (albeit entry-level enterprise) feature set. The Synology DS1618+ is...
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Friday storage roundup
The SSD market is somewhat daunting to a newcomer, not just the various interfaces and technology but also the huge selection of models from the various suppliers. HDDs and NAS devices are…
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Hey you, get off of My Cloud! Western Digital hardwired backdoor is a golden oldie
A few years back the D-Link DNS-320L NAS device made headlines thanks to the discovery of a hardwired user and password present which allowed anyone access to your device. Western Digital seems…
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Go big or go home, LaCie’s 96TB 12big NAS
The big12 NAS device from LaCie comes in 48TB, 72TB, 96TB and 120TB varieties, all having a dozen 3.5" bays for your drives. The device stands 447x161x237mm which is somewhat larger than…
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COMPUTEX 2017: QNAP Unveils World’s First Ryzen-based NAS
QNAP are providing a sneak peak of a new line of NAS devices, powered by AMD's Ryzen processors. The TS-x77 series will come in 6, 8, and 12-bay models with an…
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Western Digital Launches 10TB Red and Red Pro
Western Digital increased the capacity of their Red and Red Pro NAS hard disk lines to 10TB. Acquiring the Helioseal technology via their HGST acquisition, which enables Helium filled...
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Drobo 5N2 5-bay NAS Review – Bonded GbE Made Simple
Data Robotics shipped their first product 10 years ago. Dubbed the Drobo (short for Data Robot), it was a 4-bay hot-swappable USB 2.0 connected external storage device. At...
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ioSafe Launches 5-Bay Xeon-Based ‘Server 5’ Fireproof NAS
ioSafe, makers of excellent fireproof external storage devices and NAS units, has introduced what they call the 'Server 5': The Server 5 is a completely different twist for an ioSafe NAS....
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What exactly is QNAP’s NASbook for?
Network Attached Storage is nothing new, but a NASbook certainly is. When you think of a NAS device you might picture a box with at least two network connections and limited controls…
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