Storage

Ruggedization Done (mostly) Right These days the state of portable external HDD storage is pretty much yawn worthy. Another year, another small tweak here or there to differentiate the ‘new’...

Cooling, Performance and Value? Yes Please! From the moment Solid-State Drives started using the “M.2” form-factor we have been recommending that buyers use either a heat spreader (for secondary storage)...

The Wolf At The Door Recently we took a pair of Exos X20’s for a test drive and walked away very, very impressed with Seagate’s Twenty Terabyte market strategy. Without...

Stop… it’s not hammer time. In Seagate’s ongoing Sisyphean struggle to meet the market’s insatiable demand for storage it should come as no surprise that last year’s ‘Exos X18’ and...

Novice NAS on a Budget While it is our firm opinion, that a families first Network Attached Storage device should be a four bay, the fact of the matter is...

At what point should a refreshed model get a new model name? It is a safe bet that nearly every storage enthusiast has fond memories of their ‘first’ and how...

Micron’s Replacement Gate NAND Unleashed Not that long ago we took a long hard look at Micron’s latest and great NAND – “Replacement Gate NAND 2.0” – and walked away...

Paradigm Shifting NAND It certainly has been a while since we looked at Crucial M.2 NVMe Solid State Drive models, and since the last time we did so a lot...

A sea-change for enthusiasts Last year we took an in-depth 'deep dive' into the Synology ecosystem via the rather good DiskStation DS1520+ and walked away very impressed with the state...

Perfection to some, imperfection to others As we have been blessed by being professionally involved in the IT sector since the days of Big Iron and the rise of the...