Announced last year, the QNAP QSW-308-1C is a 3-port 10G SFP+ and 8-port Gigabit Unmanaged Switch. This little switch is an entry-level way for small businesses and even homes to add high-speed networking. The switch supports up to five speeds (10G / 5G / 2.5G / 1G / 100M). As we stated in our How

We in the IT community often obsess over show horses—the fastest and/or most powerful devices or systems—because we love those big and small numbers they showcase. The reality, however, is that most users simply don’t need the ostentatious power of show horses. They need workhorses, systems that can serve up real workloads on a day-to-day

The DapuStor Haishen3 is the company’s NVMe enterprise SSD. The line comes in two models, the DapuStor H3200 SSD (reviewed here) and the DapuStor H3100 SSD we are reviewing today. Both of the two drive types have the same use cases that include: server & storage systems, data centers, video surveillance, professional photography, streaming, edge

VMware recently added NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) as a storage network protocol option in vSphere 7.0. The fact that the fastest shared-storage solution is now able to be used by the world’s most popular virtualization software is a game changer, opening a whole new set of use cases for a virtualized data center. This also

The Eaton 5SC500 UPS is part of the company’s 5SC line of smaller tower form factor UPS. While small is relative with tech gear, the 5SC500 can fit on a desk or under it making a good backup for smaller gear such as notebook/PCs and NAS, or a specific use case pointed out by Eaton

In recent years, we continue to experience how storage performance is getting faster, which has been challenging the old storage protocols that have become a bottleneck for data centers. Despite using the latest fabric speed of 100GbE and new networking standards, such as InfiniBand, those slow network protocol technologies restrain flash device’s performance, keep it

StarTech has been known to produce and release unconventional products for some time. Nothing out of left field, they take something, see a slight need, and do a little twist to make it fill a niche. When one thinks of server racks or cabinets, silence typically doesn’t go hand in hand. With the StarTech 12U

Synology has entered the SSD world with the launch of SSD lines specifically designed to handle demanding environments like virtualization workloads, high traffic volume database storage, and AI and HPC projects within the NAS environment. One of these drives is the Synology SAT5200, a SATA SSD ideal for mixed and intensive 24/7 workloads while boasting

In June 2020, Synology made a bold choice and decided to sell flash storage along with its NAS solutions and routers. For some time SSDs could be used in the NAS for caching or just for all the storage giving users faster performance. Several companies like WD and Seagate have their own flash storage aimed