Orico Storage Backuper Review
Orico is well-known for making great external storage products--and the newest venture, going by the name of "Storage Backuper," is an exciting one. Storage Backuper is an external backup solution specifically designed for smartphones...
Yottamaster FS5U3 DAS review: 5 bays of Super Sturdy USB RAID storage
Yottamaster's five-bay (3.5-inch), FS5U3 direct attached storage box is nothing if not handsome. Actually, I should say handsome and solid--the nearly all-metal chassis and shell are built like a brick outhouse. I like it....
Synology DS920+ NAS Review: Fast CPU, M.2/NVMe Slots… Gigabit?
Synology makes excellent NAS boxes, and the $560 4-bay DS920+ is no exception--as far as it goes. The Intel Celeron J4125 4-core CPU is fast, there's 4GB of DDR4 memory, the operating system is...
Zyxel Armor G5 AX6000 (NBG7815) Wi-Fi Router Review: 802.11AX, 10/2.5Gbps Ethernet, Forced Cloud Setup
Zyxel's $349 Armor G5 AX6000 (NBG7815) had me happily anticipating a smoother, faster, Wi-Fi and Ethernet experience for my local network, which is currently mired a couple of generations behind at N wireless. AX,...
QNAP TS-431KX NAS box review: Affordable 4-bay, 10GbE for small business.
The QNAP TS-431KX is a small-business grade, 4-bay NAS box that carries a price tag of $389. Considering it features 10Gbe SFP+ and nearly all the capabilities of QNAP's second-to-none operating system and app...
How to Upgrade your QNAP NAS Box to NVMe and 10GbE or 5GbE
A number of QNAP NAS boxes, including the TS-253B, TS-253D (that I use), and the TS-453KX recently reviewed here sport full-on PCIe slots. You can use these to add features not present in box...
ExpressVPN Review: How Does It Perform (and How to Install) on Ubuntu?
ExpressVPN is considered one of the top-tier VPN products. We install it on Ubuntu 21.04 and use it from the command-line and from within a browser. How does it shape up?
What is VPN?
A Virtual Private...
Asustor Lockerstor 10 Pro (AS7110T) NAS: 10 Bays of Storage Goodness
ASUSTOR has been making a name for itself over the last few years on all NAS fronts: consumer, prosumer, and corporate. SMB boxes like the $2400, AS7110 reveal why. The AS7110T is attractive (if...
Seagate IronWolf 510 Review: A Long-lived NVMe Caching SSD Specifically for NAS
Seagate's IronWolf 510 NVMe SSD is a fast reader with an excellent endurance rating, but it's a very slow, albeit hyper-steady writer. When I say slow, I'm talking less than 1GBps for the 1.92TB...
ASUSTOR AS5304T Review: Slick, Gamified NAS
The ASUSTOR AS5304T is a dual 2.5GbE gaming-inspired NAS geared towards users wanting to store and stream their own content. It comes equipped with an Intel Celeron quad core CPU, 4GB SO-DIMM DDR4 memory...
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