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Terra Master F2-221 2-bay NAS review - an inexpensive solution for the home/SOHO

A simple inexpensive NAS that has Plex, Owncloud, Nextcloud services, supports Docker, cloud management and its own backup system for Windows and Linux clients. It can work absolutely silently by turning off its fan. Terra Master is a relatively new brand in the market of data storage systems for home and small businesses. The company started its journey in 2014, and unlike most of its rivals, it did not focus only on NAS, but immediately offered models and DAS families with a Thunderbolt ...
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Synology SA3200D review: dual-controller NAS with all services, virtualization and Docker

This model is the only NAS of its kind that achieves Active-Passive fault tolerance not only for file protocols, but also for embedded software, including video surveillance, virtualization server, backup and containers . The ink hasn't dried yet in our review of the dual-controller iSCSI storage we are already testing Synology a logical continuation of the two-controller series of storage systems from the same manufacturer: a full-fledged NAS, made according to the fault-tolerant Active- ...
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Synology UC3200 Review: affordable dual-controller iSCSI storage

First dual-controller storage from Synology, marketed as iSCSI storage for virtualization hosts. We will test how quickly it switches between controllers and how it recovers back. Perhaps since Synology released its first rackmount NAS, at all press conferences the company has been asked when will they release a 2-controller solution? The manufacturer himself explained for a long time that the company has a High Availability solution for organizing NAS into a cluster, that in the modern ...
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QNAP TS-2483XU-RP review: 24-disk head unit NAS

QNAP has got very interesting monstrous NAS-s for working with large amounts of data. The storage system under consideration today with a head unit for 24 3.5-inch hard drives makes it possible to pack 384 TB of data into one system and do without expansion shelves at all, which may be quite enough for the needs of a small enterprise. QNAP has got very interesting monstrous NAS-s for working with large amounts of data. The model under review with the long name TS-2483XU-RP is a data storage ...
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Aquantia AQtion AQC107 vs Intel X550-T2 - comparing 10G interfaces in iSCSI and CIFS file operations

Aquantia network chips are increasingly being distributed as an expensive home or low-cost business solution for 10-Gigabit networks. We compared the company's youngest chip with Intel's flagship network card when working with file operations, and the results were amazing. The young company Aquantia was not known to anyone 2-3 years ago, and today its network controllers have become a passport to the world of 10-Gigabit networks for thousands of gamers around the world. This brand entered ...
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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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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-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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Synology small business 12-nay NAS review - RackStation RS2414 +

Synology brings to market the small and medium office storage solution, RS2414 +. It is a 12-drive rackmount NAS that can be expanded to 24 HDDs when a disk shelf is attached. It is built on the basis of an Intel Atom processor with a frequency of 2.13 GHz, which allows keeping the price of the product around 82 thousand rubles, which in itself is already unusual. For this money, you get the most modern operating system, connection via 4 network interfaces, USB 3.0 and all the functionality that ...
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Synology RS3413xs + enterprise storage review

Synology is taking another confident step into the world of enterprise storage. Today we're looking at RS3413xs +, a 10-drive NAS with SSD caching technology, up to 34 HDD scaling, upgradeable to 10G networks, 4 Gigabit NICs, plenty of memory and a powerful 4-core processor that promises 400,000 IOPS performance. (2000 MB/s) in read mode. Synology is strengthening its position in the Enterprise storage market. And if a year ago, RS series storage systems could be perceived as home NAS ...