In the desktop form factor NAS space, it is quite difficult to find units with more than two network ports and / or PCIe expansion slots. These features are usually reserved for rackmount units targeting high end SMB users. Synology is bringing some of these high-end SMB / enterprise features to the desktop form factor with the launch of the DS1513+. The enclosure has been redesigned and the drive bays are now screwless. To differentiate itself from the DS1512+ (with which it shares the same computing platform, a 2.13 GHz dual core Atom D2700), the unit has four GbE network ports. The unit also brings multi-path IO (MPIO) to the desktop form factor. SHA (Synology High Availability) is also part of the enabled features. This provides...
Western Digital and SanDisk Announce Partnership to Produce Hybrid Drives
Yesterday Western Digital and SanDisk announced their collaboration for hybrid hard drives (or SSHDs as they are now called). The idea behind the move is that SanDisk will supply...
30 by Kristian Vättö on 5/9/2013
Seagate 1200 SSD: Custom Seagate SAS Controller, X8 PCIe SSD Also Announced
Alongside the Seagate 600 and 600 Pro SATA SSDs, Seagate is also announcing its 1200 SSD aimed squarely at the enterprise market. While the 600/600 Pro use Link A...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/7/2013
The Seagate 600 & 600 Pro SSD Review
If you had asked me back in 2008 who I thought would be leading the SSD industry in 2013 I would’ve said Intel, Western Digital and Seagate. Intel because...
58 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/7/2013
Synology's DS213j Targets Budget-Conscious Home NAS Market
Synology is one of the few NAS vendors to successfully pull through multiple units in our labs without any showstopper failures. The quality and breadth of the feature set...
11 by Ganesh T S on 5/7/2013
QNAP Lauches Marvell-based TS-x20 / x21 Series with Revamped QTS 4.0 OS
QNAP's entry level NAS models received an upgrade recently with the launch of the TS-x20 and TS-x21 series. Both of therm are based on Marvell CPUs (and the lack...
8 by Ganesh T S on 5/2/2013
Micron P420m Announced: MLC PCIe SSD
Nearly two years ago Micron announced its first native PCIe SSD: the P320h. We finally got to review it over a year later. In the time between announcement and...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/2/2013
Kingston SSDNow V300 (120GB & 240GB) Review
Kingston's SSD lineup is as follows: they have HyperX-branded SSDs for enthusiasts and the mainstream market is catered by SSDNow brand. The HyperX SSDs have been fairly popular from...
41 by Kristian Vättö on 4/30/2013
QNAP's TS-EC1279U-RP 12-bay Flagship Rackmount NAS Review
Our enterprise NAS reviews have focused on Atom-based desktop form factor systems till now. These units have enough performance for a moderately sized workgroup and lack some of the...
23 by Ganesh T S on 4/29/2013
Plextor M5M (256GB) mSATA Review
Plextor has been increasing their presence in the SSD market month by month. It's not a coincidence, we have been very pleased with all Plextor's drives that we have...
34 by Kristian Vättö on 4/17/2013
Plextor M5 Pro (128GB) SSD Giveaway
Plextor has been making a name for itself in the SSD space lately with its M-series of drives. The M3 and M5 lines are well received and remarkably competitive...
1835 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/15/2013
Hardware Accelerated BitLocker Encryption: Microsoft Windows 8 eDrive Investigated with Crucial M500
Most modern SSDs come with some form of hardware encryption. On these drives with hardware encryption, it’s usually permanently turned on - all data written to the NAND is...
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/10/2013
Intel Confirms Falcon Ridge Production in 2013, Ramp in 2014
Yesterday Intel announced its updated Redwood Ridge Thunderbolt controllers (adding 4K/DP1.2 support, lower power operation and slightly lower BOM cost) as well as next year's Falcon Ridge family of...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/9/2013
The Crucial/Micron M500 Review (960GB, 480GB, 240GB, 120GB)
This is probably the most excited I've been about any SSD launch in quite a while. At CES this year, Crucial announced its M500 SSD - the world's first...
99 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/9/2013
MyDigitalSSD BP4 2.5" & mSATA (240GB) Review
When I reviewed MyDigitalSSD's BP3, I have to say I was positively surprised. A relatively unknown manufacturer combined with a Phison controller is not the most promising mix. With...
35 by Kristian Vättö on 4/3/2013
QNAP Launches Marvell-based 4-bay Rackmount NAS Units
Rackmount NAS units introduced in recent days have been mostly based on the powerful Intel processors, but there is a market demand amongst small workgroups and SMBs for low...
7 by Ganesh T S on 3/23/2013
ReadyNAS 100, 300 and 500 Series Reboots Netgear's SMB NAS Lineup
Netgear got into the SMB / SOHO / consumer NAS market with the purchase of Infrant Technologies in May 2007. The first generation ReadyNAS NV products were based on...
20 by Ganesh T S on 3/18/2013
Inside AnandTech 2013: All-SSD Architecture
When it comes to server hardware failures, I've seen them all with our own infrastructure. With the exception of CPUs, I've seen virtually every other component that could fail...
57 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/12/2013
Seagate Announces New Laptop and Desktop SSHDs (Solid State Hybrid Drives)
A few days ago we reported that Seagate would stop selling 7200 RPM 2.5” hard drives by the end of the year. Now we know why. Seagate will continue...
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/5/2013
ioSafe N2: A Disaster-Resistant Synology DS213
The emergence of the digital economy has brought to fore the importance of safeguarding electronic data. We have discussed the 3-2-1 data backup strategy before in the piece where...
26 by Ganesh T S on 3/4/2013