NAS
Seagate's IronWolf series of drives for network-attached storage systems has gained significant traction in its market segments. One of the primary reasons has been the breadth of offerings - high-capacity HDDs targeting different applications, as well as SATA and NVMe SSDs. In fact, Seagate was one of the first vendors to introduce SSDs targeting the prosumer / SMB / SME NAS markets with the IronWolf SSD 110 series at the 2019 CES. This 2.5" SATA SSD family was complemented by the announcement of the IronWolf 510 NVMe SSD family in Q1 2020. The SSD family, based on the Phison E12DC Enterprise SSD Controller, sported a 1DWPD rating that was not available in other SSDs targeting the prosumer / SMB NAS market. Seagate is continuing their...
Western Digital Updates Red Pro Line with 16 and 18TB Capacity Points
Western Digital recently unveiled their first energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) HDDs for the retail channel. Today, the company is taking advantage of the same hardware platform with some tweaks...
8 by Ganesh T S on 9/23/2020
Seagate Unveils Exos X18 18TB Enterprise Hard Drive
Seagate recently introduced their 18TB flagship IronWolf Pro hard drive for SMB/SME NAS units. Today, the company is unveiling the Exos enterprise version of the same drive. The Exos...
41 by Ganesh T S on 9/17/2020
Synology Introduces DS1621xs+ - First Desktop x86 DSM NAS with Native 10GbE
Synology is one of the top-tier vendors in the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) network-attached storage (NAS) market for SOHOs, SMBs, and SMEs, with QNAP being the other major player. While...
57 by Ganesh T S on 9/11/2020
Seagate Updates IronWolf NAS Drives Lineup with 18TB Pro HDD and New 4TB SSDs
Seagate is introducing new flagships in their IronWolf lineup today on two fronts - the SMB/SME-focused IronWolf Pro, and the SATA SSDs line. On the HDD front, we have...
14 by Ganesh T S on 9/1/2020
Western Digital's 16TB and 18TB Gold Drives: EAMR HDDs Enter the Retail Channel
Western Digital made a number of announcements yesterday related to their enterprise hard-disk drives (HDD) product lines. While there was nothing unexpected in terms of the products being announced...
70 by Ganesh T S on 7/9/2020
Western Digital Announces Red Plus HDDs, Cleans Up Red SMR Mess with Plus Branding
Western Digital originally launched their Red lineup of hard disk drives for network-attached storage devices back in 2012. The product stack later expanded to service professional NAS units with...
43 by Ganesh T S on 6/24/2020
Synology Unveils DiskStation DS220j Dual-Bay NAS: A Basic NAS For the Home
Coming in on the heels of TerraMaster's recently introduced entry-level dual-bay NAS, Synology has announced its own basic NAS, the DiskStation DS220j. Synology's latest NAS can store up to...
23 by Anton Shilov on 3/17/2020
Seagate Introduces IronWolf 510 M.2 NVMe SSDs for NAS Systems
Seagate was one of the first vendors to introduce SSDs targeting the consumer / SMB / SME NAS markets with the IronWolf SSD 110 series at the 2019 CES...
12 by Ganesh T S on 3/17/2020
TerraMaster F2-210 2-Bay Personal Cloud NAS Released
TerraMaster has revealed an entry-level NAS that doubles as personal cloud storage. The F2-210 NAS has two bays and supports up to 32 TB of storage (using today’s hard...
10 by Anton Shilov on 2/12/2020
QNAP Launches Two Bay TS-251D NAS: Gemini Lake, HDMI, PCIe Expandability
QNAP has announced its new budget-friendly two-bay NAS aimed at home users and supporting hardware-accelerated media playback. The TS-251D can store up to 32 TB of data using today’s...
14 by Anton Shilov on 1/27/2020
CES 2020: TerraMaster Shows Off 5-Bay F5-422 NAS with 10 Gb Ethernet
TerraMaster unveiled a new five-bay NAS with a 10 GbE connectivity at this year's CES. The F5-422 is based upon Intel Apollo Lake SoC, and runs the company’s TOS...
33 by Anton Shilov on 1/17/2020
Asustor, QNAP, and Synology Introduce New NAS Units at CES 2020
The network-attached storage (NAS) vendors had a relatively quiet presence at CES 2020 compared to what we used to see in earlier years. We have a few announcements and...
65 by Ganesh T S on 1/10/2020
Giveaway: QNAP TS-932X NAS & Seagate IronWolf Drive Bundle
We’re back this week with another giveaway, this time courtesy of Seagate. After giving away some of their new Ironwolf 110 SSDs a couple of months back, this month...
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Giveaway: Seagate Ironwolf 110 SSD (480GB)
We haven’t yet given away any hardware this summer, so let’s change that. Earlier this year Seagate announced that they’d be expanding their Ironwolf family of NAS-focused drives to...
23 by Ryan Smith on 7/16/2019
QNAP Launches QNA-UC5G1T: A USB 3.0 to 5 GbE Network Adapter
QNAP has introduced its USB 3.0 to 5 GbE network adapter, releasing the accessory for PCs and QNAP NASes to allow them to add support for faster Ethernet networking...
38 by Anton Shilov on 5/23/2019
Seagate Introduces IronWolf SSD for NAS
The recent drop in flash pricing has resulted in high-performance SSDs at wallet-friendly price points. NAS units currently being introduced also come with tiering support, allowing the flash-based storage...
11 by Ganesh T S on 1/7/2019
QNAP Unveils HS-453DX Silent NAS: Two HDDs, Quad-Core SoC, HDMI 2.0, 10 GbE
QNAP has introduced a new fanless NAS aimed primarily at home users. The HS-453DX Silent NAS can house two hard drives and it is powered by a quad-core Gemini...
19 by Anton Shilov on 11/29/2018
QNAP Launches Mustang-200 Compute Accelerator for Network Attached Storage
QNAP has released a special-purpose accelerator based on two Intel CPUs that is designed to significantly boost the processing capabilities of NAS boxes and even PCs. QNAP’s Mustang-200 can...
28 by Anton Shilov on 11/21/2018
QNAP Announces TS-332X Three-Bay NAS with 10 GbE
QNAP has announced its new three-bay NAS designed for SOHO market. The TS-332X also happens to be one of the industry’s first three-bay NASes that integrates a 10 GbE...
22 by Anton Shilov on 9/5/2018
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