Asustor's 5 Series Packs Intel Bay Trail Celerons
Since last CES, a couple of Asustor offerings have been put under our review scanner, and we were naturally excited to meet up with them at CES 2015. Towards...
3 by on 1/12/2015
Quantenna Maintains 802.11ac Technology Lead as Broadcom and Marvell Launch New Chipsets
Quantenna was the first to bring a 4x4 MU-MIMO 802.11ac chipset to the market (with the Asus RT-AC87U and the Netgear Nighthawk X4 R7500). It has a number of...
7 by on 1/11/2015
AMD Enters NAS Market with QNAP's 10G-Ready TVS-x63
QNAP's CES suite was quite busy when we visited them last week. Considering the number of product and feature announcements that were made, it wasn't a surprise at all...
21 by on 1/11/2015
Seagate and LaCie at CES 2015
Seagate acquired LaCie a couple of years back. We saw some complementary product lineups last year, but this time around, the integration seems to be well and truly complete...
9 by on 1/7/2015
TP-LINK's Networking Solutions at CES 2015
TP-LINK is one of the leading networking solutions vendor in the Asian market. They have been slowly trying to build up a presence in the US, but there has...
2 by on 1/7/2015
Synology's BeyondCloud Series - NAS Units made User-Friendly
Synology has put out some interesting updates (both expected as well as unexpected) in the lead up to the new year. At CES 2015, the focus is on a...
12 by on 1/6/2015
Zotac ZBOX CI320 nano Review: A Fanless Bay Trail-M mini-PC
Over the last couple of years, mini-PCs in the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) have emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Zotac is no...
44 by on 1/6/2015
QNAP TS-853 Pro 8-bay Intel Bay Trail SMB NAS Review
QNAP has focused on Intel's Bay Trail platform for this generation of NAS units (compared to Synology's efforts with Intel Rangeley). While the choice made sense for the prosumer-targeted...
58 by on 12/29/2014
HGST Deskstar NAS 6 TB Review
The increasing affordability of SSDs has put a strain on the traditional market for hard drive vendors. However, hard drives continue to remain the storage medium of choice for...
36 by on 12/23/2014
Holiday Guides 2014: COTS NAS Units
We have already published holiday guides for mobile devices, motherboards, GPUs and SSDs. Today, we will take a look at the various options available in the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS...
26 by on 12/17/2014
Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD 6 TB Review
Hard drives continue to remain the storage medium of choice for applications where capacity and cost factors outweigh performance requirements. Vendors have also realized that enterprise hard drives are...
52 by on 12/10/2014
Synology's DS2015xs brings ARM to High-Performance NAS Units
In the current NAS market, it is downright impossible to talk of ARM and high performance together. The most powerful ARM-based NAS units have been based on Marvell's ARMADA...
27 by on 12/9/2014
Western Digital My Passport Wireless Review
Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have taken off in a big way. However, internal storage has remained at a premium. Over the last few years, many companies...
23 by on 12/3/2014
Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD: WD Red Pro Gets a Competitor
We have seen this story play out before. Western Digital delineates the hard drive market with a product aimed at a particular niche and Seagate comes in a few...
22 by on 12/2/2014
Asustor AS7008T 8-bay Intel Haswell SMB NAS Review
Asustor is one of the recent entrants in the NAS market. Over the last couple of years, they have tried to play in the same space as QNAP and...
29 by on 11/30/2014
SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0 Flash Drive Capsule Review
The last few years have seen rapid advancements in flash technology and the rise of USB 3.0 as an ubiquitous high-speed interface on computers. These have led to the...
31 by on 11/27/2014
Zotac ZBOX CA320 nano PLUS Review: A Fanless AMD mini-PC
Over the last couple of years, mini-PCs in the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) have emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Zotac is no...
31 by on 11/26/2014
HGST Deskstar NAS 4 TB Review
The increasing affordability of SSDs has put a strain on the traditional market for hard drive vendors. However, new opportunities have opened up, thanks to the rapid growth in...
40 by on 11/22/2014
Synology DS1815+ 8-bay Intel Rangeley SMB NAS Review
Synology started the roll-out of their SMB-targeted NAS units based on Intel's latest Atom platform (Rangeley) in September 2014. We have already looked at the 4-bay DS415+ in detail...
65 by on 11/18/2014
Exploring Performance Consistency in USB 3.0 Flash Drives
SSD technology has advanced to a stage where it is possible to have flash drives with bona-fide SSD controllers. The addition of a SATA to USB 3.0 bridge provides...
29 by on 11/15/2014
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