Hi, my name is Alex and this a look into my homelab. I have always been passionate about tech, but my interest in IT started about 13 years ago. My first home lab setup consisted of just a Dell Dimension E521 desktop. Back then, the OS to play with was Windows Server 2003. This setup

The Serial Cables PCIe Gen4 m.2 adapter (PCI4-AD-x4M2-04-G4) allows test labs and users to add an extra Gen4 slot PCIe x4 to desktops and servers with a supported motherboard. Traditionally, m.2 adapters offer enterprises a cost-effective boot-drive alternative for servers (without taking up a front-mount slot); however, this highly customizable adapter can be used for

Kingston’s Workflow Station and Readers is a dock solution that provides users with an easy way to transfer files from multiple sources at once to a PC or laptop. This type of device is designed mainly for professionals who use multiple different SD cards to transfer their project files. What’s unique about the Kingston dock

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

Video surveillance is an interesting vertical as it has a lot of seemingly contradictory requirements. On the one hand, it must have a high level of availability and be secure, reliable, and able to process different video streams efficiently in real time. On the other hand, it needs to be able to run in locations

视频监控是一个有趣的垂直市场，因为它有许多看似矛盾的要求。一方面，它必须拥有高水平的可用性，安全可靠，能够实时有效地处理不同的视频流。另一方面，它需要能够在只有极少技术支持人员部署与维护其软件和硬件的地点运行。最重要的是，它必须具有成本效益。

Along with the MP600 Core, Corsair has released another PCIe Gen4 SSD with the Corsair MP600 Pro. Being a Pro version, this drive comes with higher performance claims, 7GB/s read, and 6.55GB/s write for the 2TB capacity. The MP600 Pro is an M.2 2280 form factor that fits in most rigs assuming there is room

Last year Samsung released its first PCIe Gen4 SSD for clients with the Samsung 980 Pro. We did a thorough review at the time. The 980 Pro dominated in the VDBench tests we put it through to be the top dog Gen4 against other newly released drives. The only problem was there was a limitation