Network Attached Storage News, Reviews, and Information
Legionhardware.com has a nice review of the Netgear ReadyNAS Duo v2, an inexpensive two drive NAS from Netgear. The drive is compared to other two drive NAS boxes:
Read more »At just $200 the ReadyNAS Duo v2 is amongst the cheapest 2-bay NAS devices money can buy, rubbing shoulders with the Synology DS212j and QNAP TS-212-US.
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Decryptedtech.com has a comprehensive review of the Synology DS 1512+ NAS which is an Atom based NAS with 5 bays that can be expanded by using up to two DS510 expansion boxes giving a total storage potential of 15 drives.
In this post, they run through the features of the DSM software that this Synology (and all Synology devices) use.…
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Synology has released its fastest one bay NAS, the DS 112+. Features are listed as:
- 107.92 MB/sec Reading, 76.66 MB/sec Writing1
- Features SuperSpeed USB 3.0
- Hardware Encryption Engine
- Rich Office Applications
- Complete Backup Solutions
- Cool and Quiet Design
- Running on Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM)
That's pretty fast for a one bay NAS.…
Read more »Niall Best's Blog has a post in which he provides a detailed review of the Synology DS1812+ 8 drive NAS "in real life". The post provides a lot of detail about setting up and using this Synology NAS. The author had the bad luck to have his NAS die after a week, but the replacement has been flawless and he does not indicate that he lost any data:
Read more »Unexpected death & bad NVRAM
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After about a week of use I noticed that the DS1812+ wasn’t switched on, I assumed that I’d turned it off as I was still testing.
PC pro has provided a brief review of the Synology DS1812+ NAS. The Synology DS1812+ is a 8 bay NAS powered by an Intel Atom dual-core 2.13GHz D2700 processor. Since the DS1812+ can support two 5-bay expansion units (DS510) and has been certified to support Hitachi's 4 TB hard drive, this NAS can hold a whopping 32 TB (without the expansion units) or 72 TB with the expansion units attached.…
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Smallnetbuilder has provided a comprehensive review of the Synology DS1512+ NAS. The Synology 1512+ NAS is a 5 bay NAS that is expandable using up to two DX510 expansion units to provide for a maximum of 15 drives. It also has two eSATA ports (in addition to the DX510 ports), 2 USB 2.0 and 2 USB 3.0 ports for additional expansion.…
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If you use the Chrome browser and have a Synology NAS, there is a new add on that allows for downloading directly to the NAS using the NAS's download function. This is a pretty neat add on that is easy to setup and use. A video showing the add on installation and use is below:
Source: system-log.com
Looks like a great way to easily move your download tasks directly to the Synology NAS.…
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Click below to watch a quick unboxing of the Synology DS212 2 drive NAS:
The just released Synology DS412+ NAS gets the unboxing and overview video treatment from tech2buzz.com.
This four bay NAS has the following hardware specs:
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We found this video which is a quick (four minutes) review of the brand new one drive Synology DS112j NAS.
The DS112 has the following features:
- Running on Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM)
- 24/7 Personal Cloud
- DLNA Certified Media Server
- 2.5" and 3.5" HDD Support
- Hardware Encryption Engine
- Cool and Quite Design
- Power-saving with only 12.1 Watts in Operation
- Gigabit LAN
- 2 Year Warranty
Source: Synology
This review provides very nice and fast walk through with a brief discussion of performance.…
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