6 TB NAS Drives: WD Red, Seagate Enterprise Capacity and HGST Ultrastar He6 Face-Off
Western Digital launched the first NAS-specific 6 TB drive today. In expanding their Red portfolio, they have brought 6 TB drives suitable for 24x7 operation into the hands of...
84 by on 7/21/2014Western Digital Updates Red NAS Drive Lineup with 6 TB and Pro Versions
Back in July 2012, Western Digital began the trend of hard drive manufacturers bringing out dedicated units for the burgeoning NAS market with the 3.5" Red hard drive lineup...
37 by on 7/21/2014ECS LIVA Review: The Nettop Rises Again
Nettops and netbooks, as a class of products, have been on the decline over the last few years. However, the introduction of SoCs based on the new Silvermont Atom...
55 by on 7/18/2014WiGig Startup Nitero Launches NT4600 802.11ad Solution for Mobile Platforms
We have looked at multiple 60 GHz 802.11ad solutions from Wilocity over the last couple of years. A couple of weeks back, this market area received a fillip as...
12 by on 7/16/2014Synology Expands Evansport Arsenal with 4-bay DS415play
The DS214play 2-bay NAS is turning out to be a popular product for Synology. Sensing a lot of market interest in a version with more number of bays, Synology...
12 by on 7/15/2014Seagate Reboots Network Storage Offerings with Rangeley NAS Pro and ARMADA NAS Lineups
The fruits of Seagate's LaCie acquisition started to appear earlier this year with the Seagate Business Storage Rackmount Series. The NAS OS that was part of the unit was...
19 by on 7/15/2014Thread Group Moots New IP Wireless Networking Protocol for IoT
The increasing popularity of home automation (HA) equipment as well as the upcoming wearable market opportunities have fueled the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution. In the home automation front...
14 by on 7/15/2014Netgear Launches ReadyRECOVER Appliances for Data Backup and Recovery
Netgear announced the launch of ReadyRECOVER appliances today to simplify data backup and recovery tasks for SMBs and enterprises. ReadyRECOVER appliances, at the hardware level, are the same as...
12 by on 7/14/2014Western Digital My Book Duo DAS Review
Earlier this week, we took a look at LaCie's high end 2-bay RAID DAS, the 2big Thunderbolt 2. It integrated both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt 2 as connectivity options...
27 by on 7/12/2014Synology DS414j: An Ideal Backup NAS
The consumer Network Attached Storage (NAS) market has seen tremendous growth over the past few years. As the amount of digital media generated by the average household increases, the...
41 by on 7/10/2014HGST Expands Ultrastar C10K Family with 1.8 TB 12 Gbps SAS HDD
HGST (a Western Digital company) today launched the Ultrastar C10K1800, a 10000 RPM hard drive in the 2.5" form factor targeting enterprise / data center applications. Earlier versions of...
20 by on 7/9/2014LaCie's 2big Thunderbolt 2 and Rugged Thunderbolt DAS Review
Consumers dealing with multimedia workflows need to transfer large amounts of data around. Be it collecting data in the field or editing media at a workstation, the necessity for...
42 by on 7/9/2014Thecus N2310 Budget 2-bay NAS Review
The consumer NAS market segment is growing at a very fast rate, with 2 and 4-bay solutions leading the trend. While some vendors choose to compete on feature set...
39 by on 7/6/2014Ubiquiti Networks Launches mFi In-Wall Manageable Devices
With the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution underway, consumers want the ability to control devices in an automated and easy manner. The home automation market has also received a...
14 by on 7/2/2014Netgear and Broadcom Rush Nighthawk X6 (R8000) 6-Stream 802.11ac Router to Market
Netgear's AC1900 router, the R7000 Nighthawk, has been well-received by the market. Since that launch, the 802.11ac market has seen a number of announcements from chipset vendors. While Qualcomm...
26 by on 6/25/2014Western Digital Launches My Book Duo 2-bay USB 3.0 DAS
Even as the consumer NAS market continues to experience rapid growth, it is impossible for consumers to have really fast access to data when the storage is bottlenecked by...
11 by on 6/24/2014QNAP TS-x51 NAS Series: Intel Quick Sync Gets its Killer App
At Computex 2014, we visited QNAP and came away with a lot of information (some of which had already been demonstrated at CES). After Computex, QNAP got in touch...
51 by on 6/22/2014Synology Refreshes RackStation Lineup with Entry-Level RS3614xs
Synology introduced two new variants in their RackStation lineup today, the RS3614xs and RS3614RPxs. These are the new 'entry-level' units for markets where ECC RAM is required. Both of...
9 by on 6/17/2014GIGABYTE BRIX Pro: A Second Look at the Intel i7-4770R with Iris Pro HD 5200
Earlier this year, we had our first look at the GIGABYTE BRIX Pro, along with a note about further benchmarks to follow. It was our first look at the...
55 by on 6/14/2014ZyXEL Updates UTM Firewalls for SMB Market
ZyXEL's Unified Threat Management (UTM) systems have been quite popular in the SMB market, thanks to their attractive pricing and excellent customer support (as evidenced in reviews on various...
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