Your hard drive is full of sensitive data. The emails, photos and browsing history scattered across its disks present an intimate portrait of your daily life. An identity thief would love to get their hands on it, so it’s vital that you take extra care when disposing of old drives. Read our Destroy an old … Read more
Despite a relentless upgrade schedule a few years ago, we haven’t seen a new entry-level two-bay NAS from Synology for a while. The DS218j was the last NAS from the company we reviewed, which was released in early 2018. it’s still a fantastic NAS and noticeably quicker than the DS216j in a couple of tests, … Read more
Seagate Personal Cloud 4TB Review – Seagate makes a NAS box for those who don’t live and breathe computers. Not everyone wants total control when it comes to personal storage. Many people want a plug-and-play solution with the technical aspect, and the Seagate Personal Cloud is built just for them. Seagate makes the Personal Cloud … Read more
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 6TB Review – Seagate and Western Digital both offer two main choices of normal PC hard drive: one range is optimised for lower power and one range is optimized for speed. The BarraCuda Pro is Seagate’s high-speed option, which is designed to provide responsive performance for high demand situations without worrying too much … Read more
SYNOLOGY DS718+ Review – Synology’s DS718+ is the latest update to the popular Plus Series of DiskStation NAS units. This 2-bay model is an upgrade from the DS716+II, featuring a new CPU – and that’s about it really. Not that this is a bad thing, the DS716+II is a great unit in the first place, there’s … Read more
“After some 10 minutes it was clear that whatever was happening with the original unit was happening here’’ JON HONEYBALL A blue light of death causes problems in Jon’s much-loved synology NAS drive, while a pair of smart earphones prove not to be so smart after all [wpsm_toplist] I know we’ve all heard of Blue … Read more
SYNOLOGY DS218J Review – A very well-featured, two-disk, nas device that offers respectable performance all houses in a cheapo box It won’t take you long to figure out that Synology’s new DS218j lies at the budget end of its NAS range. The white plastic box literally slides apart giving you access to internals that allow for … Read more
Mark investigates if the DS215+ is the fastest small NAS box yet? Synology’s number versioning isn’t as easy as it once was, since it stopped releasing a baseline year model and then the budget and performance derivatives above and below it. Therefore, with the DS215 range there is no Value Series model, just the budget … Read more
Toshiba unleashes yet more Canvio products on an unsuspecting world With Seagate and Western Digital knocking seven sorts of SATA out of each other, this should be a good time for the Toshiba to make more of its hard drive business. Its Canvio range of external USB storage devices has generally been solid, if somewhat … Read more
WD revamps a classic with some innovative new features Opening this package from Western Digital, I was wearing my typically weary face of cyclic experience. Surely I’ve seen enough external drives to last a Time Lord’s lifetime? But – and a rare occurrence this is – the changes Western Digital has to this product are … Read more
We couldn’t do a group test of external hard drives without at least one appearance from Western Digital. The company seems to release a new external drive model every ten minutes, and it’s quite a chore trying to keep up with what’s new. More to the fact, the previous models are generally of such a … Read more
The D3 Station range from Samsung is a little misleading. Although it clearly states Samsung on the top of the drive and on the box too, the D3 Station range of external drives are actually manufactured by Seagate.The issue of joint ownership when it comes to support of a product is one that often rears … Read more