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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

No matter how beautiful IOPS the manufacturers promise us, no matter what synthetic tests show, the real speed of a typical virtual machine depends on how your server is configured and how the application itself works. Let's explore the impact of different types of caching on Synology NAS. Toshiba, a major manufacturer of flash drives and hard drives, forecasts only 10% of corporate data will be stored on SSDs in the year, although it seems that all storage manufacturers have forgotten ...
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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

This file server will be of interest to large companies. It is assembled on the basis of a fast Intel Celeron M processor with a frequency of 1.6 GHz, it has support for a reliable file system ZFS, two network ports with aggregation, the ability to stack and connect via USB to a computer. But the most interesting thing is dynamic iSCSI partitioning, which will save space for iSCSI connections. We have already covered Thecus file servers. This company is interesting for its non-standard ...
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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

... , but in fact, modern NAS operating systems actually require much ... Speaking about the pricing of network storages, many for some reason ... including temporary) for maintaining a NAS are an order of magnitude ... was previously required on inexpensive NAS). So if you remove ... , WebDAV, NFS, AFP), the NAS is compatible with all existing ... equipment to which the NAS will connect must also ... when configured on both the NAS and the switch, ensures ... environments. Everything that an office NAS should have is present: ...
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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 ... to other drives. Many cheap NAS do not support this functionality ... eight virtual volumes (iSCSI initiators). NAS allows you to create a ... 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, ... been able to run from network storages, via secure iSCSI or Samba ...
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QNAP TS-EC1279U-RP Storage Testing with 10 GbE Support

... seem that the manufacturers of NAS-s for small business have ... every self-respecting manufacturer of network storages releases a model with support ... Design The design of the NAS with the ability to install ... is possible when using multiple NAS-s via the iSCSI interface ... when using expansion slots in NAS ... we hope QNAP implements ... capabilities and advantages of QNAP NAS OS in a separate article ... option for use in corporate NAS-ah. Firstly, thanks to ... custom software on a single NAS. And the QNAP TS- ...
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS 516 powerful 6-drive NAS review

... but with passive cooling. This NAS supports the installation of expansion ... contrary to the ideology of network storage - maximum investment and maximum ... to us from previous Netgear NAS reviews. They are notable for ... too much for a conventional NAS. For many inexpensive storage systems ... extensive experience in manufacturing desktop NAS-s with powerful processors, and ... the main trump card of NAS is revealed - multithreaded operations ... in just the right place. NAS manufacturers have long realized that ...