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

We live in “Interesting Times” – with many states re-opening and many businesses coming out of hibernation, the question of workplace safety and risk mitigation has been the priority. The main go-to method for screening individuals coming into a workplace for a high temperature, which has a couple of approaches. The first and most common

In March of this year, Kingston Digital Inc. expanded its line of affordable enterprise SSDs with the introduction of the Kingston DC1000M. The new SSD is meant to be an affordable drive with NVMe level performance that replaces old SATA and SAS SSDs as companies move forward. The DC1000M comes in capacities between 960GB and

Recently, Dell EMC released an updated version of their Cloud Tiering Appliance, or CTA. Some of our readers may already be using this completely free virtual software appliance from Dell EMC, some may know about it but haven’t utilized it, and some may ask “what’s a CTA?” Allow us to explain.

The HP t640 thin client is geared towards remote users that use up to three independent 4K monitors. It has various advanced security features such as AMD Memory Guard to ensure that the data on the device is as safe as possible. To give a brief overview of its specifications, the HP t640 is a

Early this year, Microsoft released a free built-in Windows File Recovery tool for Windows 10 users. This command-line app is available in the Microsoft Store, and it allows Windows 10 users to recover files that have been deleted from local storage devices and can’t be restored from the Recycle Bin. Local storage devices include internal

Qumulo File System is Qumulo’s unique software-defined distributed file system that spans the data center, private and public cloud. Its software is built for the hybrid cloud, allowing it to run on pre-configured and pre-qualified industry standard hardware platforms, as well as natively across multiple public clouds. In our lab, we had the opportunity to

NVMe SSDs have taken over as the top performers across the board. They started off by making huge leaps and bounds over SAS and SATA drives, but in recent years have slowly been eking out a little more performance with each iteration. There is an upper limit with PCIe 3.0 and the current drives are

The NVMe interface, specifically PCIe 3.0 NVMe 1.3, has been the preferable SSD interface for virtually any use case for a while now. This interface has been used time and again as vendors continue to improve in performance with each new generation. PCIe has now entered into 4.0, bringing with it a massive gains in