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Testing Synology Flashstation FS3017 flash array in virtual environments

With the release of a dual-socket storage system with 24 SSD drives, Synology announced: here is our product on which you can build fast high-availability systems and hyper-converged virtual systems, where storage and server are combined in one device. It is one of the fastest NAS devices to go on sale today. Promised performance - up to 500K IOPS in 4K Random Read, minimum power consumption like two light bulbs, horizontal and vertical scalability, including available expansion components. We ...
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Exploring SSD and RAM caching in Synology servers: how to get the most speed

... types of caching on Synology NAS. Toshiba, a major manufacturer ... A modern corporate NAS is not just a file storage, but also a ... , and you purchase a NAS only for storing backups or ... virtual machine running on a NAS. Install the package Synology Virtual ... consider storage only as a file storage in two cases: when we ... not retained after rebooting the NAS. That is, after the ... the caching capability in the NAS's RAM. The benchmarks show ... to install a modern smart NAS with virtualization instead of the ...
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QNAP ES1640dc v2 review - testing a dual-controller NAS with inline deduplication

Active-Active fault-tolerant architecture and ZFS file system support puts this NAS on a par with NetAPP, Dell / EMC and HPE solutions. Total iSCSI throughput is 120 Gbps, on-the-fly deduplication saves space by tens of times when hosting virtual machines - we tested all these features, including switching times and latencies when one of the controllers fails. In our previous review  QNAP TDS-16489U , which can be used both as a computational node and as a virtualization tool with support ...
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Thecus N5500 Review: enterprise 5-disk file server

... file storage systems. For example, Thecus has made the world's smallest NAS ... bothered with questions why the NAS cannot be connected via ... no Copy button, traditional for NAS, for backup from external ... . Air circulation in the NAS case is carried out using ... is customary for multi-disk NAS servers, Thecus N5500 allows ... Like most modern enterprise-class NAS, Thecus N5500 supports Windows AD ... second only to the Netgear NAS ReadyNAS Pro . This is ... to-reality test of Intel NAS Performance Toolkit. By and ...
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Review of Thecus N5200XXX 5-drive small office NAS

5-disk file server for small offices. It is built on an Intel Atom D525 processor, which achieves excellent performance in RAID 5 and RAID 6. We will also test this NAS in real applications to see how quickly it is backed up or how quickly the antivirus checks its contents. p> Such file servers appear more often than others in reviews on our website, precisely because such NASs are most in demand by small companies, in cases where the customer wants to purchase one server for storing data ...
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Synology Active Backup for G Suite/Office 365: back up cloud data locally

If in 2017 we backed up ourselves to the cloud, then starting from 2018 we back up the cloud to ourselves to protect our calendars, mail and contacts from blocking any messengers, disconnecting accounts and others misfortunes. Synology has a great tool for backing up Google and Microsoft services, which we'll test. Since we use such business-friendly products as Office 365, Google Drive and Calendar, Gmail and Shared Folders in G-Suite, we need to make sure that this data is safe. The ...
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ASUSTOR AS-604RD storage system review

The issue of organizing data storage in small and medium-sized businesses often causes headaches. How many issues need to be resolved, how many requests need to be satisfied at the same time, and at the same time the system must work in 24x7 mode with minimal support from IT specialists. There are many solutions, and one of them is a 1U solution for four format disks - ASUSTOR AS-604RD. The issue of organizing data storage in small and medium businesses often causes headaches. How many ...
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QNAP TS-869 Pro 8-drive office storage system review

... somewhat conservative, but very powerful NAS for 8 disks, built on ... NAS QNAP TS-869 Pro can act as an independent file storage with ... to other drives. Many cheap NAS do not support this functionality ... eight virtual volumes (iSCSI initiators). NAS allows you to create a ... VMware and Citrix, allowing QNAP NAS to be used in virtualized ... . You can connect your NAS to two different networks and ... playing various content and the NAS setup menu. For control, ... a hundred gigabytes to the NAS for an iSCSI partition, ...
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QNAP TS-EC1279U-RP Storage Testing with 10 GbE Support

An NAS for small businesses with big ambitions. Rackmount, 12 hard drive bays, 2 power supplies and expansion cards. The latter actually means the ability to work in 10G networks, which in turn gives performance at the level of 1 gigabyte per second. We tested this NAS in a 10G environment and saw with our own eyes that the highest performance is now available on inexpensive storage systems over twisted pair cables without expensive optics. It would seem that the manufacturers of NAS-s for ...
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS 516 powerful 6-drive NAS review

Today we are reviewing one of the most powerful desktop 6-disk NASs available on the market. It has a modern Core i3 processor, but with passive cooling. This NAS supports the installation of expansion cards, which means that in the future you can install a 10 Gigabit LAN controller in it. If the storage capacity is no longer enough for you, you can connect an expansion shelf, reaching 84 TB, and this volume is typical for more expensive devices. When marketers talk about the applicability ...