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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 … Continue Reading
Today, Synology announced the availability of its second NAS server for 2025, the DiskStation DS425+, for the US market. It’s a four-bay server, similar to the DS925+ that was released earlier this month, but with lower hardware specifications and capabilities. Synology DS425+: A straightforward 4-bay NAS server The first thing … Continue Reading
The BeeStation Plus, Synology’s second iteration of its user-friendly approach to personal cloud storage, is an unusual network-attached storage (NAS) server. If you have used a Synology NAS server before, keep in mind that the BeeStation lineup offers a fraction of the capabilities of a standard Synology DiskStation. In return, … Continue Reading
The Crucial X10, first announced on May 19 together with the Crucial T710, is Micron’s latest portable SSD. If the name rings a bell, that’s because the company had the Crucial X10 Pro back in late 2023. So, what’s the point of this new drive? Despite being very similar to … Continue Reading
When announcing the WD Black SN8100 on May 13, Sandisk claimed the drive to be the “world’s fastest” NVMe SSD. I thought it was marketing as usual. As it turned out, Sandisk didn’t lie. The internal drive indeed proved to be the fastest in my testing, as you’ll see in … Continue Reading
Western Digital’s SanDisk Professional 26TB G-Drive is totally different from the SSD version. It’s a much larger external drive, uses a traditional (enterprise-class) hard drive as storage, and is not bus-powered. In return, it has much higher capacity and much lower cost-over-storage ratio. This 26TB version is the latest variant … Continue Reading
If you call the ORICO IG740-PRO “just another” PCIe Gen 4×4 NVMe SSD, you wouldn’t be wrong. It’s indeed one of many you can find on the market. However, considering that PCIe 4 is the sweet spot for NVMe SSDs, this is an internal drive more than worth considering. It’s … Continue Reading
Micron’s new Crucial P510, first announced at the beginning of the year, is kind of special. It’s the company’s third PCIe Gen 5×4 solid-state drive (SSD) after the T700 and T705, but the first designed to be a mainstream drive. As the name suggests, it continues the P series and, … Continue Reading
