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Toshiba Adapter Turns External Drives into Networked Devices
Mar 20, 2014 - in Articles > External Storage
Toshiba's Digital Products Division (DPD) on Wednesday introduced the Canvio Wireless Adapter, a device that adds wireless networking capabilities to any traditional external hard drive. With it, users can stream and access
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NAS Attack: Network Storage From Thecus And Western Digital
Oct 9, 2009 - in Articles > Storage
Western Digital MyBook World Edition II products. The front panel sports only a small status LED; all other control elements and interfaces are located on the rear of the device. Interfaces There you will find a gigabit networking port, a USB 2.0 port
Thecus N0204 , used to transfer the contents of a USB 2.0 storage device onto the N0204. Interfaces The gigabit networking interface is also located on the rear side of the device, in addition to a second USB port, the power supply jack
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Attractive New NAS Options Network-attached storage (what we commonly refer to as NAS) is probably the easiest way to make data easily accessible in a connected environment, as it facilitates the exchange of files and eliminates redundant storage. It often
Administration And Web-Based Front End MyBook World Edition II: An Intuitive Administration Console WD’s NAS product is ready to run as soon as you plug a network cable into your switch. The device automatically obtains an IP address through DHCP, which
Power Consumption And Test Setup Radeon HD 3850 GV-RX385512H GPU: 670 MHz Memory: 512MB DDR3 (830 MHz, 256 Bit) Network Interface Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Audio Integrated Power Supply CoolerMaster RS-850-EMBA, ATX 12V V2.2, 850
Benchmark Results: Multimedia Please check out our benchmark gallery for additional results. Both devices deliver solid performance if you want to record video data onto them. The same applies for playing video, as both devices deliver much better perf...
Benchmark Results: Office Please check out our benchmark gallery for additional results. Thecus and Western Digital both deliver nice performance when handling office files, such as Excel or Word documents. An average of 18.1 MB/s for Thecus and 17...
Conclusion Although the two devices follow entirely different concepts, both the Thecus N0204 and Western Digital’s MyBook World Edition II are very solid NAS devices offering decent performance and a plethora of useful features. Western Digital...
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WD Enters Wireless Home Networking Market With My Net
Jun 14, 2012 - in Articles > Storage
. "Our successes in creating Connected Home solutions with our WD TV media players and personal cloud products have given us valuable insights into the network-overload problems of home wireless users, and entering the wireless home networking
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Six Battery-Powered Wireless Storage Devices, Reviewed
Apr 24, 2014 - in Articles > Storage
Results: Network And USB Performance Network Performance When the Voyager Air plugs into an Ethernet network, it wins sequential read and write benchmark hands-down. At 31 MB/s, it even serves as a respectable NAS appliance. Connected wirelessly, Corsair's drive
Corsair Voyager Air need a power outlet, since they include built-in rechargeable batteries, too. Some of the devices have their own unique differentiators. For example, the Voyager Air doubles as network-attached storage, while Kingston's MobileLite Wireless
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PQI Air Bank as a network-attached storage device. This prevented us from benchmarking it with CrystalDiskMark. When we used other metrics to measure download performance, we came up with about 4 MB/s. That's good enough for video streaming, but not enough
Which Storage Device Is Right For You? at around 5 MB/s). That might be sufficient for streaming music or video, but you'll find yourself waiting on larger data transfers, to be sure. The exception is Corsair's Voyager Air, which you can plug directly into an Ethernet network and use
Kingston MobileLite Wireless 's App Store. Using the software, you can upload to and download from storage attached to the MobileLite Wireless, or change its configuration settings (network parameters, for example). Alternatively, you can use the MobileLite Wireless
Seagate Wireless Plus the Wireless Plus doesn't include wireless connectivity, then. But Seagate is specifically referring to third-party hotspots. The drive does, in fact, include 802.11b/g/n connectivity, able to facilitate your own private wireless network. Once
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LaCie Intros Network Storage Solution for Families
Nov 6, 2012 - in Articles > Network Storage
On Tuesday LaCie revealed the CloudBox, an all-new network storage solution focused on family access. It connects to a local router by way of a Gigabit Ethernet port and allows users to access its contents from any location
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Synology DS412+ And Thecus N4800: Two NAS Devices With Atom D2700
Oct 17, 2012 - in Articles > External Storage
Intel's Pineview Platform Replaces Cedarview In Networked Storage that the third-generation Atoms could serve as a strong foundation for network-attached appliances, beating the common Marvell Kirkwood mv6281 ARM and Freescale MPC8533 (PPC architecture) processors when it came to network data transfer speeds
Thecus N4800: NAS With Multimedia information about drive activity, network status, current network settings (like IP and network gateway addresses), and warnings. The only other buttons accessible up front control the device's on/off status and facilitate navigation
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Benchmark System And Power Consumption -bit) Network Card Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller Sound Card Integrated Power Supply Unit (PSU) Cooler Master RS-850-EMBA, ATX 12V v2.2, 850 W System Software and Drivers Operating System Windows Vista
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Buffalo Shows Unannounced External SSD Drives
Jan 21, 2013 - in Articles > Storage
including colorful mice, ear buds, iPhone 5 cases, and mobile batteries for recharging smartphones and tablets when a power outlet isn't available. Also on hand were 802.11ac networking gear, and external storage stations for local and network
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Hands-on: Amped Wireless-N 600mW Dual Band Repeater
Nov 1, 2012 - in Articles > Storage
A few weeks ago, I did a hands-on with ZyXEL's Wireless N300 Range Extender (WRE2205), a wireless network extender that plugs directly into an electrical outlet. Now I'm returning to wireless networking again with the Wireless
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Qnap TS-559 Pro+: Familiar Network Storage With A New CPU
May 24, 2011 - in Articles > Storage
Qnap TS-x59 Pro+ Series: Incremental Improvements For a long time, mass-produced network-attached storage devices have given our readers a mixed impression of what they can do (and why they cost so much, frankly). The included software often only includes basic functions like
A Glance At The Software And Specifications wizard that guides the user in six steps through the initial configuration. The name of the NAS server and the IP address are entered here along with indications of which network, file, multimedia, and Web server services are to be activated
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Test System And Power Consumption Gigabyte Radeon HD 3850 GV-RX385512H, GPU: 670 MHz, Memory: 512 MB DDR3 (830 MHz, 256-Bit) Network Card Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller Sound Card Integrated PSU Cooler Master RS-850-EMBA, ATX 12V V2.2, 850 W
Conclusion: Higher Speed, Higher Throughput The Device In renewing its TS-x59 series and specifically the TS-559 Pro, it was easy for Qnap to avoid mistakes. Take the quality casing and the interior of the previous series, add a mature and proven firmware, and exchange the proc...
Hardware And Pricing Details We only recently had an opportunity to take a closer look at the sister model of the device reviewed in this article. The Qnap TS-559 Pro (without the +) scored well thanks to its quality workmanship, efficiency, reliability, and good da...
Sticking With What Works If you're hoping to find new features on the front of the devices, we have to disappoint you. As with the rear of the device, the design of the plastic-covered front is reminiscent of the TS-559 Pro. The new model also comes with a U...
Benchmark Results: Multimedia For a better overview, we summarize the results sorted by RAID modes. For the purposes of comparison, we include the Synology DS1010+ in our charts, which we ran with firmware version 3.0. In a direct comparison to its predecessor...
Benchmark Results: Office The results for our simulated system backup in a single container file benchmark are similar to those seen in the multimedia benchmarks. Here, too, the transfer rate increase is barely noticeable. Only RAID 6 shows a notable result: ...
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Nine External Thunderbolt Storage Devices, Rounded Up
Jul 15, 2012 - in Articles > Storage
We compare nine different Thunderbolt-based storage solutions, delivering scorching sequential throughput. Of the nine, three submissions rise to the top. Although it remains pricey, in the applications where it makes sense, Thunderbolt ...
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