NAS systems

Synology D112J NAS Box Micro Mart 1204 (12-18 April 2012) - The Synology D112J NAS box follows on from the previous DS111J. What differences does it have and can it put in an improved performance?

It's Two, Two, Two Hard Drives in One! Wired.com 2/2012 - Your days of making excuses as to why you haven't got around to running backups might be numbered. Enter Western Digital's first dual-drive NAS, the My Book Live Duo.

Verbatim Gigabit NAS MacWorld 11/2011 - Paying just a bit north of £100 for a 1TB NAS seems like a sweet deal, but this offering from Verbatim is not optimized for Macs, so are the savings worth the extra hassle?

LaCie LaPlug Register Hardware 10/2011 - Networkable drives are widely used but the LaCie LaPlug allows you to share existing USB drives or sticks with others on your network. How does it perform?

QNAP TS-219P II Turbo NAS Bit Tech 10/2011 - If you're looking for a NAS box, chances are you'll run into more products from QNAP than any other manufacturer thanks to their reputation for producing well priced, easy-to-use storage devices. How well does its latest offering live up to expectations?

Synology DS411 NAS Micro Mart 1174 (8-14 September 2011) - As the new Synology NAS box costs about the same as a basic PC, the DS411 comes under inspection to see how far the concept has developed over the last couple of years.

A.C.Ryan Playon!HD2 Expert Reviews 9/2011 - Like most media streamers, the Playon!HD2 from AC Ryan has been based on Realtek hardware, though in this case it's with a rather noisy fan.

LaCie CloudBox IT Reviews 8/2011 - Backup options usually come in two flavours: local or online. Both have benefits and disadvantages, which is why LaCie has tried to combine the best of both worlds in its CloudBox.

Cloud Engines Pogoplug PC Advisor 8/2011 - The Pogoplug has no storage capacity, instead acting just as a passthrough device which makes your media available on the cloud and ready to access from any device with a browser or from Cloud Engine's own iPhone app.

Iomega StorCenter px4-300r IT PRO 7/2011 - The StorCenter px4-300r aims to bring cloud functionality to SMBs, but is it worth the hefty outlay?

Drobo B800i PC Pro 6/2011 - Similar to the DroboElite but with a controller hardware upgrade, the eight-bay B800i is one of a new line of IP SAN appliances from Drobo to have business usage set firmly in its sights.

Pogoplug What Digital Camera 11/2010 - Pogoplug is a device that allows you to share the contents of your hard drive over the internet to anywhere in the world, much like a Slingbox but for data. ...

Synology DiskStation DS410 Nas box Register Hardware 6/2010 - Intended for small business users, the DS410 is a 4-drive NAS which claims read speeds as high as 110MB/s in RAID 5, and an acceptable 56W of power consumption.

Asustor AS-606T IT PRO 4/2013 - Asustor is a newcomer to the SMB NAS market, but seeing as it's a division of Asus, it shouldn't have too many problems making itself known. The AS-606T sits in the middle of its range.

Drobo S MacWorld 5/2010 - The latest in the Drobo line offers RAID feature enhancements for professional users.

Iomega StorCenter px12-450r PC Pro 5/2013 - Since EMC acquired Iomega's range of storage appliances, its lineup has been considerably increased, among other models with the new StorCenter px12-450r flagship reviewed here.

Synology DiskStation DS212+ PC Advisor 3/2012 - It may have less capacity than its DS712+ sibling, but the DS212+ is an improvement over the older DS211+, and has cutting-edge connectivity. Can it also perform well?

Synology DiskStation DS712+ PC Advisor 3/2012 - Synology certainly thought about the future when they designed the business-friendly DiskStation DS712+ NAS box. It is very easy to expand when necessary, but how does it perform?

Synology DS212+ Bit Tech 2/2012 - It has only been six months since the release of the DS211+ but Synology have followed it up with the DS212+ enclosure.

Synology DiskStation DS212j Expert Reviews 2/2012 - The DiskStation DS212j is Synology's latest twin-disk NAS enclosure. See how it compares to their previous enclosures.

XiVa's a music mate What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision 2/2010 - If you're interested in using a music server or streaming device, the new musicm8 could be just what you're looking for. A sophisticated NAS box with built-in disc-ripping, it's small, very quiet (though not quite silent) and, with 1TB of storage, there's plenty of hard-disk space to store music, photos and video.

Qnap Turbo Nas TS-219P-II Computer act!ve 1/2012 - Does Qnap's dual-bay TS-219P-II have enough in store to justify its high price tag?

DiskStation DS212J Micro Mart 1192 (19-25 January 2012) - Synology's DiskStation is from the company's latest range of NAS units. The two-bay DS212J drive is aimed at home users, so will it meet your needs?

Synology DS1511+ PC Advisor 11/2011 - The Synology DS1511+ five bay NAS provides plenty of space for expansion. What else does it have to offer?

Asus Home Server TS mini PC Pro 1/2010 - The TS mini is Asus’ first Windows Home Server system, a simple black micro-tower that’s almost featureless save for four dim blue LEDs at the front. Round the back are a generous six USB ports and two eSATA connectors, and that’s just as well because internally there’s only room for one extra 3.5in drive, in addition to the preinstalled 1TB Hitachi unit. Review details: Single Test. One server was reviewed and rated on features & design, value for money and performance.

Synology DiskStation DS712+ ZDNet 10/2011 - Aimed at small businesses, the DiskStation DS712+ from Synology is a NAS device with a 1.8GHz processor and 1GB of RAM.

Synology DiskStation DS211+ Bit Tech 8/2011 - All of Synology's NAS boxes have proved to be great performers, and the DiskStation DS211+, with its spectacular spec sheet, shouldn't be an exception to this rule.

Synology RackStation RS2211+ PC Pro 7/2011 - There are many SMB NAS manufacturers, but only Synology has taken storage expansion seriously, first using eSATA ports for expansion and now allowing the RS2211+ to be connected to a RX1211 expansion rack.

Synology RackStation RS2211+ IT PRO 7/2011 - The RackStation RS2211+ is Synology's most ambitious NAS appliance to date, using an Infiniband connection and being scalable up to a jawdropping 66TB.

Synology DiskStation DS3611xs ZDNet 7/2011 - Just a quick look at the DiskStation DS3611xs's 8GB of RAM, dual-core processor, and four Gigabit Ethernet ports, and you'll see that it's much more server-like than most storage appliances. Add to this, the fact that it can be set up with 10GbE to bring super-fast iSCSI access to 100TB of storage space, and this unit can easily be considered a mid-range device - though it's far less pricey and easier to manage than many others.

Drobo FS multi-disk network storage device Computer act!ve 7/2011 - While the Drobo FS' predecessor could only be connected to a single computer, this new offering from Data Robotics is meant to be plugged to a router, making it able to share its contents over a network.

Drobo B800i ZDNet 7/2011 - Belonging to Drobo's newest range of business centered storage appliances, the B800i combines their user-friendly 'BeyondRAID' technology with a revamped management interface and dedicated iSCSI support. The results are certainly noteworthy.

Buffalo Drivestation Quad USB 3.0 Expert Reviews 6/2011 - When a two-bay external hard disk simply can’t provide enough storage space for your needs, the logical progression is a four-bay unit such as Buffalo’s DriveStation Quad. The huge array contains four 1TB hard disks, with the option of running them as a single huge disk or in a RAID array to protect your data.

Buffalo Linkstation Pro Quad The Inquirer 6/2011 - There was a time when network attached storage just referred to a hard disk hanging from an Ethernet cable, but that's all ancient history now. Today's NAS devices are much more sophisticated and their capabilities extend far beyond simply keeping your files.

Qnap TS-559 Pro+: Familiar Network Storage With A New CPU Tom's Hardware 5/2011 - It's a good idea to use two CPU cores to speed up multiple drives in RAID 5 or 6 arrays and it's even better to increase clock speeds. We put Qnap's TS-559 Pro+ with an Atom D525 dual-core CPU to the test: is it any faster than devices with Atom D510?

Synology RackStation RS2211+ ZDNet 5/2011 - With its highly scalable RackStation RS2211+, NAS vendor Synology is clearly looking to move upmarket from its small-business heartland. Enterprises may be attracted by the 66TB of RAID-protected storage on offer, and support for the same add-on SME features found on other Synology appliances is another advantage. However, the RackStation RS2211+ lacks options that some enterprise customers may be looking for.

Synology RackStation RS2211+ V3.co.uk 4/2011 - Synology has had a fair amount of success in the small business network-attached storage (NAS) market with a mix of fast and affordable desktop and rack-mount appliances. Now it's looking to up its profile even further with a highly scalable new RackStation RS2211+, sporting up to 66TB of storage space plus dual Gigabit LAN connectivity and a number of extra high availability features.

Synology DiskStation DS1511+ PC Pro 4/2011 - Not only does Synology’s latest NAS appliance claim impressive performance, but it also looks to have the highest expansion potential we’ve yet seen for a desktop box. The DS1511+ borrows the sleek five-bay chassis of the DS1010+, and doubles the number of eSATA expansion ports to two.

Synology DiskStation DS411slim Expert Reviews 4/2011 - The DS411slim is different to the majority of NAS enclosures. Instead of taking 3.5in desktop hard disks, it uses smaller 2.5in laptop hard disks. This allows it to be noticeably smaller than other NAS enclosures, but laptop disks tend to cost more per gigabyte and come in smaller capacities. For example, four 500GB 2.5in disks come to around £160, whereas a single 2TB disk 3.5in costs just £65.

Synology RackStation RS411 IT PRO 3/2011 - Synology’s new RackStation RS411 is one of the lowest cost rack mounted NAS appliances on the market. It’s fast and feature packed, but there are some limitations so read this review to find out more.

Synology DiskStation DS411j TrustedReviews 1/2011 - Call us strange, but at TrustedReviews we love a good NAS device. The combination of a safe repository for our data, and – in most – a range of features and abilities designed to augment that storage capacity make for a winning combination. Over the past few years Synology has been consistently rolling out high quality NAS systems, with last year’s DS410j, for example, impressing us with its low price, and plentiful capabilities. Good things, therefore, are to be expected of this year’s model, the DS411j.

Synology DS411j PC Pro 1/2011 - Synology’s range of NAS devices reach right into the business-class stratosphere, but the DiskStation DS411j is altogether more modest. With four disk bays, Synology’s excellent DiskStation Manager 3.0 front-end and a host of features, the DS411j has its sights set on your home network.

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