Have you ever thought about building your own NAS with an arbitrary budget? And then did you think to yourself, I could surely outbuild two other chumps? Well if so, you’re at the right place. In this video, the StorageReview team will walk you through two unique DIY builds and compare them to a prebuilt
Recently we put together a budget PC with 240GB SSD for under $150, that was capable of handling most computing tasks. Luci proceeded to give it away on our social channels once we were done. But before its departure, Kevin got together a mostly insane idea and wanted to briefly convert the Lenovo SFF PC
The Synology NAS and their underlying OS, DiskStation Manager (DSM), comes with several interesting packages (think apps) that can be downloaded from the Package Center for free. These packages run the gamut of multimedia for the casual user to virtualization and containers for small to medium businesses. Today we are going to look at, what
The QNAP TS-230 is an entry-level NAS aimed more at home use than business. The NAS is compact, lightweight, quiet, and visually appealing, making it a nice fit in a home office or entertainment center. The main use for this little guy in the home is to store media (music, photos, and videos) on and
The QNAP TS-131K single-bay NAS is compact, sporting a quad-core Alpine AL214 ARM Cortex A15 CPU and 1GB RAM. Personally, I typically glaze over one bay NAS enclosures as single-bay solutions offer absolutely no data redundancy. However, with the low cost ($165 in Feb 2021 for the bare NAS) this upgrade to the TS-131 doubles
The TerraMaster F4-422 is a small desktop NAS that is touted as a high-speed NAS. The high-speed handle comes from the device being loaded with a quad-core 1.5GHz Intel Celeron J355 CPU, an onboard 10 Gigabit LAN port, and up to 8GB of memory supported. This hardware (combined with the proper drives in the proper
The QNAP TS-453D is a 4-bay NAS that is designed to take advantage of faster speeds from 2.5GbE connections and extend those benefits to the devices connected to it. QNAP has made several changes recently to push the networking speeds form 1GbE to 2.5GbE connections through NAS, switches, and AICs. The TS-453D is yet another
The Synology DiskStation DS1520+ is a 5-bay NAS designed for small offices, enthusiasts, or home users looking for a data management solution. The DS1520+ is highlighted by dual internal M.2 SSD slots so users can leverage Synology’s SSD Cache technology, which will significantly improve overall system I/O and application performance. Synology’s new DiskStation also scales
The QNAP TS-251D is an entry-level 2-bay NAS that targets home users looking to set up a multimedia entertainment solution (4K media transcoding and streaming) and those who just need a device to secure their data via their own personal cloud. Released back in January, the QNAP NAS comes in two models: TS-251D-4G and TS-251D-2G.
The Asustor AS7110T is a SMB virtualization and storage NAS solution highlighted by its Intel Xeon 9th generation Quad-Core CPU. With its 10 drive-bays and highly customizable build, the AS7110T offers a range of different options for budgets of all kinds. As such, it can easily scale as your business grows for a total of
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