Synology DS1019+ Review: Powerful, Capable, Restrained
Synology this week is launching the DS1019+, a 5-bay counterpart to last year's 4-bay DS918+. Like most of the company's "Plus" series devices, it is...
Read Moreby Jim Tanous | Feb 14, 2019 | Storage | 3
Synology this week is launching the DS1019+, a 5-bay counterpart to last year's 4-bay DS918+. Like most of the company's "Plus" series devices, it is...
Read Moreby Ken Addison | May 11, 2018 | General Tech, Networking | 28
Thanks to Wendell from Level1Techs for his all of his help on this project and pointing us in the right direction! A few years…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 18, 2017 | Storage | 9
It has been a few months since Al looked at Intel's Optane and its impressive performance and price. This is why it seems appropriate to revist the 2280 M.2 stick...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 24, 2017 | Storage | 1
At $44 for 16GB or $77 for a 32GB module Intel's Optane memory will cost you less in total for an M.2 SSD, though a significantly higher price per gigabyte. The catch…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Apr 24, 2017 | Storage | 53
Introduction: Finally! Optane Memory sitting in our lab! Sure, it’s not the mighty P4800X we remotely tested over the past month, but this is...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Mar 27, 2017 | Storage | 39
We are just about to hit two years since Intel and Micron jointly launched 3D XPoint, and there have certainly...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 23, 2017 | General Tech | 5
There is an insidious latency gap lurking in your computer between your DRAM and your CPUs L3 cache. The size of the latency depends on your processor as not all L3 cache…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Feb 16, 2017 | Storage | 8
We've been hearing a lot about Intel's upcoming Optane memory over the past two years, but the information had all been in the form of press announcements and...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 30, 2017 | General Tech | 7
There are tricks to managing your Steam library if you are running low on space or simply setting up something new, from tricking Steam by copying files manually or the new feature…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jul 9, 2015 | Storage | 11
Introduction: Since their acquisition by Toshiba in early 2014, OCZ has gradually transitioned their line of SSD products to include parts provided by their parent company. Existing products were...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 4, 2013 | Storage | 8
Benchmarking cached HDDs can be a difficult task as they are specifically designed to cache commonly used data which results in two very different speeds for data access, the 8GB SSD and…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 8, 2013 | General Tech | 0
Enthusiasts are wholeheartedly adopting SSDs for their storage media of choice with HDDs relegated to long term storage of infrequently accessed storage. For SMB and enterprise it is not such an easy…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jul 18, 2013 | Storage | 8
Samsung's release of the 840 EVO earlier today likely prompted some questions, such as what type of flash does it employ and how does it achieve such high write speeds. Here is…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | May 14, 2013 | Storage | 1
The Tech Report sat down with Matt Rutledge, Vice President of Western Digital's client computing group to discuss the software behind their new HDDs with an SSD cache. Sandisk will be providing…
Read MoreFollowing the announcement that the company would be axing 7200 rpm notebook drives, Seagate has introduced its third generation hybrid hard drives. The new Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drives...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 12, 2012 | Storage | 7
We've heard mentions of AMD's downloadable RAMDisk software which will portion off a part of your system RAM to act as a cache drive to give you all the benefits of an…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 17, 2012 | Storage | 2
SanDisk has been making flash based storage product for quite a long time and while they may not come to your mind when you are thinking of buying an SSD, they do…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 22, 2012 | Storage | 1
Forget Intel SRT, the Corsair Accelerator Series cache SSDs and the Nvelo Dataplex software which come with them will give you the best of both your HDD and SSD and increase both…
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