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LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA 9265-8i 6Gb/s PCIe RAID Card Review
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 Following our last reviews of the Areca 1880 RAID Card and LSI 9260-81 MegaRAID Card, we are going to take an indepth look at LSIs new release, the LSI 9265-8i MegaRAID Card, an eight-port PCI Express SATA+SAS RAID Controller that is configured for 6Gb/s devices.
With the speed and power of SSDs reinventing mainstream storage, RAID card manufacturers are challenged to deliver a product that can handle the massive throughput and high random reads of these solid state drives. Manufacturers then raise the bar by combining these SSDs into ultra speedy RAID arrays , the end result of which is shown in the LSI 9265-8i as we have today.
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ineo NA316N1 All-in-One NAS Server
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"As I was preparing for a long airplane flight across country, I realized that I should make a backup of the data on my ASUS 1005HA netbook. The 10" netbook had hundreds of digital photos and other important documents that were irreplaceable in my busy digital lifestyle."
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HP ProLiant MicroServer
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“The term server tends to conjure up images of large and imposing rack-mount boxes costing thousands of pounds, stuffed full of processors, memory and hard disk drives. However, that’s not always the case, with a growing demand for much smaller and more affordable servers to meet the needs of the small business.”
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QNAP TS-219P+ Turbo NAS Review
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Today we are going to talk about QNAP's new generation two-bay Turbo NAS with iSCSI, especially designed for small business and home users who are looking for a large storage center. This solution supports RAID 1, offers hot-swappable hard disk design, features two eSATA and multiple USB ports.
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Synology DS411j NAS Review
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We've followed Synology closely over the last 18 months and been very
pleased with what they have shown us by way of review. It's no surprise that
they are a predominant organisation within the storage market due to their
expanse of solutions, catering for one side of the requirements of users to
the other. Synology have an extensive product range for home users, right to
enterprise level.
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Synology DS-211J Diskstation Two-Bay NAS Review
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"Synology's DS211j is a great addition to an expanding home network. Not only does it provide storage and backup solutions, it also offers print and media server capabilities, website hosting, PC-free downloading, and much more at a price that is easy on the wallet."
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HP Proliant MicroServer
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The MicroServer is a unique SFF server in the HP Proliant line that looks more like a small PC or multi-HDD NAS box. Powered not by Atom but a more powerful dual-core, 12W TDP AMD Athlon II, it is the smallest server we've ever seen. We gave our sample the complete SPCR treatment.
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Thecus N4200 PRO Review - The 4-Bay, Battery Backup NAS with Many Features
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"Last year we reviewed the Thecus N4200 just days after its release. The N4200 is still to this day the only consumer NAS that offers dual status display screens, but more importantly, the only consumer NAS to include a battery backup system. When Thecus first marketed their N4200 a lot of emphasis was placed on the new dual display feature, but we felt that the battery backup feature was the real standout feature.
In an enterprise environment power is regulated to a degree unseen in our homes. Businesses regularly spend a portion of their budget on keeping clean, consistent power flowing to their servers. In our home power fluctuates and in many places across the country you can expect at least one power outage a year. Here in the Midwest where I'm at you can expect several brief outages in winter as ice builds on power lines and trees, and again in the spring when severe storms disrupt the flow. One of the easiest ways to take out a hard drive is to remove power abruptly without a proper shut down sequence."
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QNAP TS-419P II NAS Network Storage Server @ Benchmark Reviews
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The official category for the QNAP TS-419P II Turbo NAS is Network Attached Storage, but in today`s environment, think of it as Connected Storage. By consolidating and providing direct access to your data via cloud services or on your mobile device, it`s more about connectedness than the ability to serve up files over 1000BASE-T in your home or workspace. The TS-419P II is the next logical step up from a two-bay device and allows you to implement RAID 5 or 6; a four-bay device is really the bare minimum for a high availability NAS appliance. It`s equipped with a faster Marvell CPU running at 2.0 GHz, a 25% increase in clock speed from previous models. Benchmark Reviews has tested several NAS units recently, let`s take at look at how this latest unit compares."
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QNAP TS-419P+ Turbo NAS Review
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In just over a year we’ve gone from the QNAP TS-419 to the QNAP
TS-419P+ with a TS-419P in the middle. The performance of each device
has gradually improved. The QNAP TS-419U which I previously reviewed
was aimed at the corporate market as it came in a rackmount design.
However, the QNAP TS-419P+ is most definitely targeted at the home
market. It doesn’t quite pack the same punch as the small business and
corporate devices with their Intel ATOM processors, 1GB RAM and 512MB
flash memory but it has all the same software features to give it that
extra edge over the competition. The icing on top of the cake would be
the support offered by QNAP. The forums and Wiki guide gives you more
knowledge than you ever need. If you have a problem, there’s an answer.
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QNAP TS-419P+ TurboNAS 4-Bay Network Storage Review
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"About six months ago, I started looking into building a Home Theater PC Solution that fit my needs. Seeing I already owned an Xbox 360, and not wanting to build a separate PC, I decided my best route was to look at some type of device that could stream to an Xbox 360 using UPnP. I ran into many roadblocks, some devices did not support a large storage pool, and others were just too expensive. When asked to review the QNAP TS-419P+, I was thrilled to see that the device supported just the type of streaming that I wanted..."
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QNAP TS-259 Pro+ NAS Review
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In the past we have reviewed a number of various NAS boxes from QNAP and have always been pleased with their performance and features. Today we take a closer look at their latest top of the line, the QNAP TS-259 Pro+NAS, and see how it holds up to the competition as well as taking a look at some other models. While its outside appearance is very similar to the previous generation of NAS boxes from QNAP, a closer look at the specs reveals that the system’s internals have been completely overhauled. Remember that when looking at the specs, NAS boxes have a customized OS so they are normally extremely low powered and are optimized purely for network and file I/O.
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Synology DS211 NAS Review
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"Synology are a strong force within the NAS market. Apart from just a few
other names in the business they have an abundance of NAS products that
cater for the home user right through to the corporate enterprise. Last year
we took a look at the Diskstation DS410 and DS210j and we were very
impressed.
This time we are to look at a newly released NAS called the DS211. Which is
the next product up from the DS210j. The naming system that Synology adopt
is quite intuitive - Diskstation (DS) Number of bays (2) Year of production
(11). The variable at the end of each of the product range such as + or j
symbolise - Performance (+) Entry Level (j). So our unit today has 2 bays,
is 2011 model and is from neither performance or entry level range."
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QNAP TurboNAS TS-219P+ NAS Server Review
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The TurboNAS TS-219P+ by QNAP is an affordable state of the art, dual bay iSCSI NAS Server focused mainly towards home and SOHO network users who are looking for a fast NAS unit with a mid-level storage capacity.
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Synology DS211 Network Application Server
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" While the DS210j was a nice simple server, there are people
that require more horsepower from a dedicated storage and application
server. Synology has just released the DS211 which doubles the speed
and memory from the older, SOHO targeted, unit. The DiskStation
Manager 3.0 software rounds out the product for a smash hit. "
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HP ProLiant DL165 G7 Opteron Server
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"You have to admit it is a dream to all computer builders to use Microsoft Windows Server 64bit on a 24 physical core system. I had to dig deep into my suite of testing tools to show off the power that this server really has. Once you test it this way, you quickly find uses for it. For example, I have used it to query a 100Gb database in SQL Server with 25 table joins. Yeah, you can do that with 64bits, 128Gb of DDR3 RDIMM’s and a SSD drive array. Read the full review to see how it performed in our tests..."
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