Want to add some always-on storage to your network, but don’t have masses
of cash and only need one hard drive?
THE FIRST NAS WITH THUNDERBOLT 3 IS A SPEED DEMON NAP’s latest 4-bay NAS is best described as the hot rod of the NAS market. There’s an insane amount of I/O bandwidth on the TS-453BT3, as it packs dual Thunderbolt 3 ports, space for two M.2 SATA SSDs and a 10 Gigabit Ethernet port in one … Read more
We test seven network storage drives that can do anything from backing up your PCs to streaming video to your TV Network-attached storage (NAS) drives are so called because they were originally designed to provide storage space for all the devices on your network. Like smartphones, however, NAS drives have moved on to become mini … Read more
A 4-bay network-attached storage device is the perfect multi-user storage device for today’s busy digital homes or small offices. Nathan Taylor tests 10. A network-attached storage device (NAS) is a wonderful thing. Most people who own a NAS wonder how they ever lived without it. They provide massive amounts of shared storage, as well as … Read more
Synology’s new ‘Play’ brings even more decoding options to those that need them Synology first launched a ‘Play’ model back in their x14 series, it was a dual drive NAS box that used the Intel Atom CE5335mm – the same chip that ended up in its four-drive DS415Play a year later. Their new DS216Play goes … Read more
Synology call this a value series NAS box, but packing 10GbE ports and that beautiful interface, Mark Pickavance thinks it punches far above its weight. The DiskStation can handle up to eight drives. It’s a beautiful sight… Specs » Processor: Annapurna Labs Alpine AL-314 (quad-core, 1.7GHz) » RAM: 4GB DDR3L, expandable to 8GB » Storage: 8x 3.5-inch … Read more