Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has announced the general availability of the Aruba Instant On 1960 switch product family, an expanded series of switches to enable small businesses to deploy a unified, easy to set up, manage, and maintain a high-speed network. The Aruba Instant On 1960 Switch Series includes two 24-port and two

Sabrent has quietly updated its Rocket 4 Plus SSD with new firmware for its Phison PS5018-E18 controller and Micron B47R 3D NAND TLC memory. These upgrades significantly improve its performance, and though it isn’t as fast as the Kingston KC3000, it’s priced accordingly and ultimately a solid multi-purpose PCIe Gen4x4 drive.

We have recently decided to create a little series on budget servers for homelab environments. In this article, we took a look at configuring Hyper-V on the HP EliteDesk that we purchased a while back. Windows Hyper-V, which is a virtual environment built-in to Windows Server and Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise and Education. It is

Recently, we published two reviews (DS2422+ and DS3622xs+) on Synology devices and we have received a variety of questions all revolving around the use of using non-whitelisted drives within new Synology 12-bay NAS models. For those not aware, Synology has gone to a whitelist approach for 12-bay tower and enterprise rack models, sort of requiring

The all-new Sabrent tool-free USB Type-C dual docking station and cloner for NMVe M.2 SSDs (EC-SSD2) offers an impressive mix of versatility and functionality. The Sabrent docking station and cloner is quite interesting as it can clone SSDs offline without having to connect directly to a computer. The Sabrent docking station and cloner is also

The 980 PRO is Samsung’s top-shelf consumer PCIe 4.0 SSD, with read speeds up to 7GB/s and write up to 5GB/s. As we already reviewed this drive, this article focuses on the PlayStation 5-compatible heatsink version, and how it compares to the non-heatsink version under sustained load. In short, if you’re upgrading your PS5’s storage,

The Synology DS2422+ is the company’s newest high-performance DiskStation designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Packed with 12 drive bays and powered by the powerful DSM OS and app platform, Synology indicates that it’s best suited for those looking to store large amounts of data and to easily share their content in a multi-user environment.

The WD Black SN770 is the company’s latest NVMe PCIe Gen4 SSD, featuring an in-house SanDisk controller and available in capacities up to 2TB. This DRAM-less client drive is meant for most general use cases, including gaming, demanding software, and speedy OS boot-ups. With PCIe Gen4 adoption and motherboard support now mainstream, WD indicates that

The Synology DiskStation DS3622xs+ is a large 12-bay NAS for business. While it includes 10GbE onboard, it is missing some components like built-in M.2 SSD slots. The DS3622xs+ is ultimately a strong contender though thanks to its expansion capability, OOB management, and Synology’s DiskStation Manager OS and app platform.