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Years ago, somebody asked me about my most important piece of tech and was surprised when I said it was my NAS server—the Synology DS410, to be specific—and not the iPhone I was holding. That was true then. And it’s even more so now. In fact, with the benefits of …
The Synology DiskStation DS1525+ network-attached storage (NAS) server, first available in the US on June 25 is arguably the best among Synology’s new and controversial 2025 releases. Here’s the bottom line: The contentious storage requirement aside, the DS1525+ is an excellent NAS server to buy today, worth its $799.99 retail …
The Archer BE700 is another confusing option among TP-Link’s existing soup of Wi-Fi 7 routers. It’s a BE15000 router, which means, according to the way TP-Link has released its hardware, there’s a chance you’ll find an Archer BE15000, which would be the same hardware with a different model name. In …
Synology today officially releases its two additional DiskStation NAS servers in its Plus family, the DS1825+ and DS725+. Judging from their hardware specs, while the former can pass for a minor four-year upgrade to the previous DS1821+, the latter, like the recently available DS925+, is an outright downgrade compared to the …
The Crucial T710, unveiled on May 19, 2025, along with the Crucial X10 portabl e SSD, is Micron’s third attempt at PCIe Gen 5 NVMe internal SSDs. And it’s the charm. In testing, the non-heatsink version of the new SSD proved to be significantly less hot compared to the previous …
The SanDisk Creator Phone SSD, part of the new SanDisk Creator Series unveiled at the beginning of the year, is an excellent add-on storage device for those with a USB-C-based smartphone who want to shoot a lot of 4K videos. For others, it’s a simple backup drive. Here’s the bottom …
Together with the 2025 NAS models, starting with the DiskStation DS925+, Synology has an unpleasant surprise for its fans: The NAS maker now implements a strict hardware compatibility (HCL) policy, which, for the time being, is basically a storage lock-in approach. To put it bluntly, apart from the server, you …
