LaCie 6Big Thunderbolt 3 Review: Fast, Glamourous, and Expensive DAS
6Big is a direct-attached storage (DAS) device sporting six drive bays and a very appealing external design. The Neil Poulton imagined sharp edges, shadowy recesses and large blue power button still resonate. It doesn't...
QNAP T310G1 Thunderbolt 3 to 10GbE Adapter Review: 10-Gigabit Network Speed for Expansion-Challenged Computers
QNAP's T310G1 enables 10GbE network speeds on computers that don't have PCIe slots, but do sport a Thunderbolt 3 port. That shouts Mac, of course, but the adapter will also work with the rarer...
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...
Engenius ECS2512 Managed Switch Review: Cloud Management, Multi-gig, and PoE
If you're looking to step up from gigabit performance across a small network or node, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better solution than Engenius's managed 10/2.5GbE ECS2512 switch. It's available in a $750...
iXsystems FreeNAS Mini XL+ Review: 8-bay ZFS Power for Pros
I've always wondered about the concept of an extra-large mini. But hey, if BMW can do it with cars, iXsystems can make hay with its FreeNAS Mini XL+--a powerful, 9-bay NAS box running FreeNAS....
Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB hard drive: Fast, Tons of Capacity, No Shingling
Seagate's latest entry into the spin-platters-because-they-make-storing-data-cheaper market is the rather excellent and exceedingly capacious 18TB IronWolf Pro. I once paid $700 for a 4GB drive. $550 for 18TB? Amazing.
Design and Specs
The IronWolf Pro 18TB...
Terra Master F5-422 NAS Review: 5 Silvery bays, 10GbE, middling read performance
I'm pretty familiar with Terra Master products which generally offer good value as basic storage. Hence, I was expecting more of the same from the $600 F5-422, a 5-bay box with 10GbE connectivity. What...
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...
Kingston DC500M Data Center SATA SSD Review: Up to 7.68TB of Reliable, Balanced Performance
Kingston's DC500M Data Center SATA SSD is exactly what I've come to expect from the company over the years--a good, stable performer with top-shelf, reliable components. For its intended role as an SMB server...
Zyxel XGS1210 10GbE Switch Review: Affordable Faster Networking
Products such as Zyxel's excellent and extremely affordable ($179) XGS1210-12 are changing the high-bandwidth networking equation for the home and small business users. This transitional (it has gigabit as well) beauty is even managed,...