Last year, Seagate announced an expansion to its enterprise SAS SSDs with the inclusion of the 3032 SAS SSD line. The line uses the SAS interface for 12Gb/s, dual-port 24×7 performance. The drives are 2.5” x 15mm and run in capacities from 400GB to 15.36TB. The series is further broken down into three endurance levels

The NETGEAR WAX214 is a dual-band wireless access point (WAP) and the newest addition to the company’s Business Essentials line of affordable and easy-to-deploy networking devices. More specifically, the WAX214 is a WiFi 6 solution for smaller businesses looking to offer their customers high-performance wireless internet access isolated from their own internal network. The WAX214

The Intel NUC 11 family is broken into several categories: Enthusiast (Phantom Canyon), Performance (Panther Canyon), Pro (Tiger Canyon), and Compute Element (Elk Bay). Each one of these is unique and built for a different purpose. For example, the Pro is designed for edge computing and office use and comes in a small square case.

In our lab, we tend to get wrapped up in the biggest and fastest solutions. But last week the most basic SSD showed up on the doorstep and caused us to re-think our focus for a few days. The Lexar NQ100 is a SATA SSD that starts at about $30 and tops out at 960GB.

The Lexar NQ100 is a 2.5” SSD that is designed for the most entry-level needs. While not being a high-performance drive, it is immensely better than using hard drives. Users will see a massive gap up in performance, not to mention the NQ100 will use less power and make no noise compared to legacy spinning

The Lexar PLAY is a microSDXC UHS-I card designed for a variety of consumer applications, including supplemental storage on new smartphones, tablets, and the Nintendo Switch. The Lexar PLAY enters an already flooded market of SD cards, so this is more or less a mid-range option for consumers with different branding. Nonetheless, Lexar indicates that

When NVMe™ drives first came out, we knew the performance would be superior, but questioned when they would be cost-comparable to SATA SSDs. Due to their initial cost, NVMe drives were used for enterprise applications that needed to take advantage of their high-performance characteristics. It didn’t take very long for NVMe drives to become cheaper

当NVMe™驱动器第一次出现时，我们知道它的性能会更好，但对它的成本何时能与SATA固态硬盘相媲美存在疑问。由于其初始成本，NVMe驱动器被用于需要其高性能特性的企业应用。就每IOPS的成本而言，NVMe驱动器没过多久就比SATA/SAS固态硬盘更便宜了。但是现在，我们开始到达一个临界点，即它们就容量而言并不比SATA/SAS固态硬盘贵多少。当我们在实验室收到西部数据Ultrastar®DC SN640 NVMe固态硬盘进行性能测试时，我们就明白了这种GB与美元的比较 – 相比于SATA/SAS固态硬盘，它提供了显著的性能改进，并针对主流企业存储市场。现在NVMe固态硬盘的价格已经接近平价，我们将其视为主流应用数据中心中的SATA驱动器的替代品，因为它们提供更好的性能，同时具有更低的功耗要求。

The QNAP TVS-872XT is an 8-bay, Thunderbolt NAS designed primarily for video and media applications. It’s part of QNAP’s x72XT lineup of NASs that offer both dual Thunderbolt 3 ports as well as 10GbE on board for cross-platform collaboration between macOS and Windows users. Today, we’re going to be looking at how I use this