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$800 TrueNAS Build Competition

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

2-Bay NAS with SSD Boot and 10GbE for under $200
Consumer  ◇  NAS

2-Bay NAS with SSD Boot and 10GbE for Under $200

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

TerraMaster f4-422 side
Consumer  ◇  NAS

TerraMaster NAS Vulnerability Found Over UPnP

Last week, a customer revealed a serious TerraMaster NAS vulnerability the company has yet to repair. TerraMaster claims their NAS systems are only available on a local network. As it turns out though, their NAS systems are accessible across the entire internet via the UPnP protocol. Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is used by an

Consumer  ◇  NAS

Synology Audio Station Review

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

QNAP ts-230 drives
Consumer  ◇  NAS

QNAP TS-230 NAS Review

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

qnap ts-131k with drive
Consumer  ◇  NAS

QNAP TS-131K NAS Review

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

QNAP TS-832PX front
Consumer  ◇  NAS

QNAP TS-832PX NAS Now Available

QNAP Systems has announced the immediate availability of the TS-832PX, the company’s newest 8-bay NAS highlighted by two 10GbE SFP+, 2.5GbE RJ45 ports and a PCIe Gen2 x2 slot for added flexibility. The TS-832PX also supports multi-cloud backup, cloud storage gateways, remote access, AI photo management and others to help small businesses build an effective

TVS-h1688X
Consumer  ◇  NAS

QNAP TVS-h1288X/TVS-h1688X ZFS NAS Now Available

QNAP Systems has announced the immediate availability of the TVS-h1288X and TVS-h1688X enterprise QuTS hero NAS, both of which are highlighted by their Intel Xeon W-1250 processor (six-core 3.3 GHz, burst up to 4.7 GHz) and up to 128 GB DDR4 ECC memory. Built for bandwidth-heavy storage use cases as well as dynamic creative workflows

TerraMaster f4-422 side with bay out
Consumer  ◇  NAS

TerraMaster F4-422 NAS Review

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

Consumer  ◇  NAS

QNAP TS-453D NAS Review

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