Dong Ngo 
This post includes the best SATA SSDs among those I’ve reviewed or used over almost two decades. Among other things, they can outdo any standard SATA hard drive of the same capacity in terms of performance. As SATA SSDs, these are now somewhat “dated” compared to much faster NVMe options. …
Ubiquiti today announced the availability of its UniFi Cloud Storage (UCS) for those needing to do off-site backups for data on their UniFi Drive NAS servers or UniFi Protect UNVR. The new service comes with a one-tier pricing of $5 per month per terabyte, with the option to scale up …
This post features the top five 10Gbps Multi-Gig routers—routers with multiple 10Gbps ports—among those I’ve evaluated. They matter because 10Gbps is the highest theoretical bandwidth available for any home or small business. Consequently, these are also the best routers for those with 10Gbps Internet. I’ve used all of these devices …
There’s been a huge wave of attacks on certain Synology NAS servers during this month of October. These attacks exploit known PHP-related vulnerabilities and target servers that run dated versions of Synology’s DiskStation Manager (DSM) or software packages (applications). PHP (short for Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely used open-source, server-side …
By now, you might have learned that TP-Link’s latest Wi-Fi 8 router, the Archer BN800, isn’t available in the US (leaving ASUS’s GT-BN98 Pro as the first router of the latest Wi-Fi standard you can buy in this market) because of the FCC’s foreign-made router ban. As it turns out, that might …
The ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro, first announced in August together with the non-Pro version, is the first Wi-Fi 8 router to be available in the US. It was a bit of a pleasant surprise, considering Wi-Fi 8 is still in draft and especially the FCC’s router ban instituted earlier …
The SANDISK NAS 600, unveiled in August as part of Sandisk’s new storage portfolio that also includes the SANDISK NAS 800, is the first SATA solid-state drive (SSD) I’ve reviewed in half a decade. Before this, I thought that the Samsung 870 EVO would be the last SSD of this …
Synology today announced the official availability of its neo+ series in the North American market—the NAS maker first unveiled the new lineup in Asia Pacific back in mid-April. The new series consists of five comparatively more affordable servers (than the existing 2025 Plus series), ranging from two bays to eight …
