Storage — digital storage, in this case — is where the information resides before being accessed.
Western Digital today announced at its What’s Next event, a new SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I SD card lineup which is claimed to deliver up to 200MB/s in reading. On the recording end, the new cards can handle up to 140MB/s of write speed, making them ideal for content creators who …
Some of you might never have heard of the Zip drive. About two decades ago, it was the coolest alternative to the floppy disk in standardized modular portable storage. And today, at the What’s Next event in San Francisco, Western Digital unveiled its ambition to repeat the same idea at …
The Armor A66 is the first portable hard drive I’ve reviewed in a long time—since the WD My Passport in September 2019—and it might be my last. With solid-state drives (SSDs) getting more affordable, there are fewer and fewer reasons to get hard-drive-based portable storage. On top of that, all …
At the current retail price of just $130 for the 1TB capacity, the new Silicon Power XS70 solid-state drive (SSD) continues the affordability trend found in the recent PCIe Gen 4 NVMe drive, including the recently released WD Black SN770. (The drive will also be available in 2TB and 4TB …
Synology today officially announced the availability of the DSM 7.1 Beta, which it first announced in early December last year. “Official” is the key here since the software has been made available for over a week to the general public. But you’re not missing out much. Considering this is a …
This post will help you set up remote access to your Synology NAS server using Synology’s built-in QuickConnect and Dynamic DNS. Both of these methods have pros and cons, and you’ll figure out which, when, and how to use each by the end of this page—that’s the idea anyway. Remember …
As the name suggests, the Synology DS1821+ is of yesteryear. It’s even older than that—Synology first announced it in 2020. But it’s still going to be the latest Synology 8-bay NAS for homes and SMBs for a while—Synology likely won’t release its replacement this year. What’s most notable, though, is …
The WD Black SN850 is not new, Western Digital first unveiled in late 2020, and it became available in early 2021 in naked and heatsink versions—of which Samsung made a rivaling version of 980 Pro in late 2021. The point is, for different reasons, I failed to review on time. It …
