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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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QNAP TS-h1886XU-RP Review: meet the ZFS-based QuTS hero operating system

... series of hard drives. These are helium hard drives with ... operation in data centers. These hard drives have a very ... and SMART disks, and these functions have long been implemented ... of ZFS consider it important to be able to take out ... performance and almost does not take up a noticeable share ... any other service. For shared file storage, this is a godsend, because ... sending data to remote storage, thus saving bandwidth. Of course, ... terms of software package support, these operating systems are identical. ...
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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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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

... -standard approach to file storage systems. For example, Thecus has made the ... Dynamic Section Stacking support ZFS file system support No ... level. A few words about ZFS (Zettabyte File System) support. ... of this file system. ZFS is a transactional, not ... The second advantage of ZFS is the constant and continuous ... not need additional control. ZFS assumes that the storage controller ... file system. ZFS is supported not only in Thecus N5500, but ... ISO images 6. ZFS system support Thecus N5500 is sold at ...
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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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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 ...