Not cool Western Digital, not cool at all

While this issue shouldn’t impact those using software “RAID” systems as directly as those with the real kit. It’s terrible that Western Digital (WD) is using SMR on drives specifically targeted at NAS/RAID use cases. Some users are experiencing problems adding the latest WD Red NAS drives to RAID arrays and suspect it is because they are actually shingled magnetic […]

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QNAP announces slew of new entry/mid-range NAS

I’m not sure how QNAP categorizes it’s NAS lineups, because even the “entry” level model in the announcement boasts 10GbE and impressive performance numbers from its quad core Alpine AL-324 SoC. QNAP has been on the cutting edge in the network storage industry with an array of high performance NAS models with all the bells and whistles for your small […]

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NETGEAR patches Badlock on ReadyNAS

TLDR: If you have a NETGEAR ReadyNAS NAS, you need to update it to v6.5.0.  Badlock Security Vulnerability Notification The Vulnerability:NETGEAR has become aware of the Badlock security vulnerability that causes ReadyNAS OS 6 devices to be susceptible to man-in-the-middle (MiTM), denial of service (DoS), and similar attacks. What You Can Do:NETGEAR strongly recommends that you install firmware version 6.5.0 […]

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Want to DIY a NAS?

Ars Techinca has a basic walkthrough of the “why not DIY” when it comes to NAS. I would be curious to see how Window Storage Spaces’ performance stacks up to what an off-the-shelf NAS can provide, but aside from that there’s little fault to find with the thought process and component selection (although the price is reasonably high-end for a […]

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ASUSTOR AS602T NAS reviewed at TweakTown

I haven’t seen many Intel Braswell NAS reviews, it’s great that they are starting to come out. At just about this time last year, many vendors were rolling out their products based on the new Bay Trail platform from Intel. With many of those products ushering in a new generation of performance that further pushed the uptick in power efficiency […]

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NETGEAR R8500 + RN214 + LACP tested @ Anandtech

To get the most out of Link Aggregation, you really need enterprise hardware. Well, that used to be true anyway. NETGEAR has had the technology in their consumer ReadyNAS line for a while, and recently brought it to their high-end Nighthawk X8 R8500 802.11AC router. If you’re curious about what that looks like in real terms AnandTech has tested it […]

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