Right off the bat, it is natural for me to compare the AS5008T to the 8-bay NAS I have already reviewed from ASUSTOR, the AS-608T. There are similarities, and a few differences. If you haven’t guessed, they are both 8-bay...
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Armed with new firmware and an updated GUI + priced competitive against the big guns in the industry like Qnap, Synology and Netgear a year or two ago Asustor entered the market. We review the AS5102T NAS. We went blank...
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As many of you know to address the issues of power consumption, interior temperatures and noise levels manufacturers choose the easy way out and reduce the RPM of the drive from the “typical” 7200 most consumer desktop drives use down...
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If you were paying attention, you may be asking yourself what the heck I am talking about. “I thought you said a there were only two flavors of Windows Storage Server 2012 R2, Workgroup and Standard.” Well, guess what my...
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In 2013, we published an article on building your own NAS for an affordable storage solution. Well, there was such a positive reaction and such demand for an updated NAS build, I decided that it is high-time I revisit this...
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As the name suggests the AS7010T is the larger brother of the very good AS7004T so aside the fact that it has room for up to 10 2.5/3.5″ SATA III drives it features the same Intel Core i3-4330 CPU running...
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Some of you may recall our review of another ultra-high-end model by ASUSTOR the AS-608T which performed extremely well and left most of its competition in the dust. Well compared to that the new AS70xxT series is in a league...
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Today Synology have released two new NAS models to market. Coming with built-in 10GbE SFP+ LAN ports, the 8-bay DS2015xs marks the advance of 10GbE solutions into small and medium-sized businesses. For large-scale businesses, the 12-bay DS3615xs offers the superior...
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Currently QNAP offers the most complete lineup of NAS servers in the market and the brand new x53Pro series are amongst the best they’ve rolled out from their factory to date both in terms of specifications and features. The x53...
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A lot has changed since we published our first NAS review with 10GbE support. We had two 10GbE capable NAS’ in at the same time, the QNAP TS-EC1279U-RP and the Thecus N8900. Both systems were 10GbE capable, that means they...
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The QNAP TS-451 Turbo NAS is part of a new hardware platform for QNAP that brings a high level of performance to the small tower-based format, at a lower cost than was possible before. The four new TS-x51 towers are...
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Ever since i started using and testing NAS devices I’ve always been on the lookout for one which could replace the media player i have in my bedroom since such devices offer so much more. Unfortunately if you’re reading these...
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Where i live the public sector is technologically outdated to say the least (many computers still run on Windows 98, how about that?) so you can imagine how surprised i was when i visited the local town hall and saw...
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Sometimes i feel that things are moving so fast in the electronics and PC hardware industry that i simply can’t afford to look the other way not even for a minute. Take for example NAS devices/servers. It hasn’t been more...
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In parts one and two, we basically spec’d and built a basis for a Home Server. In reality, other than plans to use it as a Server, it is currently just a desktop PC with RAID SSD’s and a lot of RAM. We have had the server up and running now for some weeks and it has performed flawlessly.
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