It has been a week since we got back from CES 2014. In this piece, we have some quick notes on all the miscellaneous products / announcements that we checked out at CES in the networking and networked storage categories. In the concluding section, we also have a few thoughts on where the various product categories are headed. D-Link - FCC Leaks Point to Home Automation Play D-Link's suite had on display all their products announced at CES. We weren't planned on writing up about the visit since we were placed under NDA for most of the interesting information / demonstrations. However, ZatzNotFunny unearthed a public FCC filing and a product link for the D-Link HomeSense Wi-Fi Smart Plug (a Belkin WeMo-like product that has an...
Synology DSM 5.0 Teaser, Disaster-Resistant ioSafe 1513+ and Egnyte Hybrid Cloud at CES
Prior to CES, Synology sent out a press release touting the upcoming launch of the DiskStation Manager 5.0 public beta. It talked about the new features at a very...
13 by Ganesh T S on 1/12/2014
QNAP at CES: Fanless NAS, mSATA SSD Caching, Home Automation and More...
I have been making it a point to visit all the dedicated NAS manufacturers at CES over the last four shows. Invariably, their presence was on the show floor...
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Lenovo Digital Home, AIOs, etc.
Wrapping up the tour of Lenovo (and by no means capturing everything they had to display, I’m going to keep this short. Lenovo had their latest rendition of their...
1 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2014
GIGABYTE at CES 2014: BRIX MAX SFF NAS, running Android
GIGABYTE is attacking the NUC sized form factor with seemingly every idea on the market. This is a good thing in a market that loves innovation. We...
25 by Ian Cutress on 1/10/2014
Lenovo's BEACON Brings Evansport to the Living Room
Intel's Evansport storage platform and their Berryville STB platform are, for all practical purposes, the same. Given this, it is only logical to expect an Evansport NAS to double...
6 by Ganesh T S on 1/8/2014
Asustor Updates ADM OS, Prepares Haswell-based Rackmounts
We visited Asustor at CES last year and saw a host of Atom-based NAS units. In the span of one year, a lot of changes have taken place. There...
2 by Ganesh T S on 1/8/2014
LenovoEMC Launches 4-bay px4-400d / px4-400r Business NAS Models
LenovoEMC's network storage family consists of three lineups: ARM-based EZ single-bay network attached hard disk for home users ARM-based ix series for value-focused consumers x86-based px series for performance-focused consumers (These come...
1 by Ganesh T S on 1/5/2014
Netgear ReadyNAS 716 Review: 10GBase-T in a Desktop NAS
Netgear launched the 6-bay ReadyNAS 716 10-GbE desktop NAS in November. To our knowledge, this is the first off-the-shelf NAS in a desktop tower form factor to come with...
25 by Ganesh T S on 1/1/2014
Synology RS10613xs+: 10GbE 10-bay Rackmount NAS Review
Most of our enterprise NAS reviews have focused on Atom-based desktop form factor systems. We ventured into evaluating rackmount units with the QNAP TS-EC1279U-RP, and today we have results...
51 by Ganesh T S on 12/26/2013
Synology Updates Surveillance Station NVR Package
We have covered Synology's Surveillance Station in a qualitative manner before, and one of our main complaints was the fact that the interface was reliant on Java. On lower-end...
2 by Ganesh T S on 11/28/2013
Thecus N2560: Intel's EvanSport NAS Platform Review
NAS units targeting home consumers have traditionally been underpowered in terms of hardware as well as firmware features. Low power, reduced cost and media-centric features are primary requirements in...
74 by Ganesh T S on 11/25/2013
Netgear Launches ReadyNAS 716 6-bay 10-GbE Desktop NAS
We reviewed the ReadyNAS 312 (one of the entry-level members) in Netgear's x86 NAS lineup last week. Netgear's ReadyNAS introductions this year were covered earlier in March. Today, Netgear...
10 by Ganesh T S on 11/18/2013
Western Digital Updates My Cloud Lineup with 4-bay EX4
We had covered the launch of the Western Digital My Cloud platform last month. The unit available at launch was a single-bay version similar to the popular My Book...
6 by Ganesh T S on 11/12/2013
Netgear ReadyNAS 312 2-bay SMB / SOHO NAS Review
x86-based NAS units targeting SMB consumers are usually of the 4-bay or more variety. However, there is a growing market for 2-bay high-performance units. Almost all major NAS vendors...
18 by Ganesh T S on 11/11/2013
Synology Introduces Media-Centric DS214play
Synology has been pretty busy introducing its 2014 models over the last couple of weeks. While the DS214 was, in my opinion, a run-of-the-mill product (not taking away any...
19 by Ganesh T S on 10/22/2013
QNAP Launches 10 GbE-Capable TS-x70 Tower Series Turbo NAS
10 GbE capability in off-the-shelf NAS units have most remained in the realm of rackmount models. Today, QNAP is introducing the TS-x70 series desktop pedestal models with this capability...
18 by Ganesh T S on 10/11/2013
Western Digital Sentinel Lineup Updated with Xeon-Based Ultra-Compact Servers
Western Digital's SMB / enterprise network storage lineup (the Sentinel series) has been based on the Microsoft Windows Storage Server platform. The most recent update to the Sentinel lineup...
10 by Ganesh T S on 10/10/2013
Synology Refreshes RackStation Lineup with RS2414+ and RS2414RP+
Synology launched two new 2U RackStations (the RS2414+ amd RS2414RP+) today. These are the first units with a full 12 bays available in the main unit itself (Their current...
5 by Ganesh T S on 10/8/2013
QNAP Launches SAS-Enabled Turbo NAS Units, Updates QTS 4.0 OS
QNAP is on a roll lately, with the launch of five new business-class Turbo NAS models supporting both SAS and SATA drives. These models are all rackmounts. While the...
0 by Ganesh T S on 10/3/2013
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