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Tag: nas
Synology DS1812+ Hardware Teardown
Today we follow-up on the Synology DS1812+ unboxing and exterior look with a view of the 8-bay NAS unit's internals. One major question we...
Synology DS1812+ Unboxing and Exterior
Recently Synology sent their DS1812+ unit for a thorough review. We will be breaking this piece into several parts. This one will cover the...
Western Digital WD Red Performance Preview
The Western Digital WD Red is a hot topic in the NAS community at the moment as the small NAS market now has a...
Sub-$10K NAS Market Spikes, Hitachi’s Cloud Storage, Adaptec 6-Series Win
This week saw research on the sub-$10,000 USD NAS market almost doubling in size from 2009 to 2010. Hitachi announces a cloud storage system...
Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB SD Card Review: 802.11n, RAW, and Movie...
The Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB combines a 802.11n WiFi connection and 8GB of Class 6 SD card storage in a standard SDHC card package,...
FTC Second Request in Seagate-Samsung, Gigabyte Xeon E3 Boards, Addonics NAS,...
A few bits of this week's interesting storage news and an update on ServeTheHome including a FTC request in the Seagate-Samsung deal, new Xeon...
Low Cost NAS Boxes and Performance over Time
This weekend I got a call from a local business that produces highlight reels from video game footage. Admittedly, I am not a big...
Map a Network Drive to a WHS Shared Folder in Windows
Many users are familiar with Windows networking and browsing shared folders over a local network. For constantly accessed shared folders, a simple way of...
Configuring Windows 7 Libraries, iTunes, Amazon MP3 Downloader, Handbrake, and FRAPS...
A question that came up recently was how does one setup common applications that work well with NAS systems to write data to network...
Storage Tiering: A Primer on Cost-Effective Tiered Storage and Caching
One thing that virtually every major storage player and enterprise has been using for the past few years, and is continuing to use, is...
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