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OWC Launches ThunderBlade X12 and Active Optical Cable at CES 2025
Other World Computing (OWC) announced its latest innovation today, with the OWC ThunderBlade X12, a game-changing professional-grade RAID solution – the next step in OWC’s Thunderbolt 5 solutions; and the OWC USB4 40 Gb/s Active Optical Cable, for long-distance connectivity without compromising speed or reliability. OWC also announced the general…
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SPARKLE Reveals New PCIe Gen4 Quad M.2 Riser Card
SPARKLE has revealed its latest product in the form of a PCIe Gen 4 riser card capable of housing up to 4 M.2 SSDs providing a convenient mass storage solution through the use of your empty PCIe slots. SPARKLE PCIe Gen4 Quad M.2 Riser The PCIe Gen 4 Quad M.2…
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Upgrading My Plex Server With a new TerraMaster NAS and Seagate IronWolf Pro Drives!
It’s been a while now, but earlier this year we had three storms pretty much back to back. The end result of this was a damaged roof tile, some blown-over garden furniture, and my NAS died. The NAS itself went utterly bonkers and won’t even load the login screen, and…
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QNAP Releases New TS-364 3-bay RAID 5 2.5GbE NAS
QNAP has announced the launch of its new 3-bay RAID 5 2.5 GbE TS-364 NAS with M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSD slots and 2.5 GbE connectivity, providing optimized performance for both in-home and office environments. Supporting light virtualization/containers and HDMI output, the TS-364 provides centralized storage, backup, file sharing, and…
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TerraMaster Unveils 5-Bay D5-300C RAID Storage Device
TerraMaster has announced the launch of its new D5-300C 5-bay RAID storage designed for small office and home office setups. It features a 2+3 RAID feature that offers better storage configuration flexibility. The TerraMaster D5-300C is ideal for a variety of applications, offering a versatile storage solution for video editing,…
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TerraMaster Launches D16 Thunderbolt 3 Storage Tower
TerraMaster has announced the launch of its new D16 Thunderbolt 3 16-bay professional storage solution. The TerraMaster D16 Thunderbolt 3 is the world’s most compact 16-bay tower storage. It uses the high-speed Thunderbolt 3 interface with up to 40 Gbps data transfer speed for fast and efficient 4K/8K video editing.…
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TerraMaster Reveal the D5-300 RAID 5 Storage
TerraMaster is one of my favourite storage brands, as they offer a great range of home, businesses and enterprises solutions but also seem to keep things clean and simple. We’ve actually reviewed one of their 5-bay NAS last year, and it was awesome. However, today they’re introducing their new 5-bay…
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HighPoint Launches Low-Profile, Bootable NVMe RAID Controller
HighPoint has announced the launch of its third generation SSD7202 NVMe RAID controller – the industry’s first ultra-compact, low-profile, bootable NVMe RAID solution for Windows and Linux platforms. The SSD7202 is ideal for PC’s that require NVMe boot performance or an ultra-compact storage solution. The low-profile SSD7202 smaller than your…
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QNAP Launches the TR-004 4-Bay RAID DAS Enlosure
Simple Storage Expansion Solution QNAP has a new 4-bay Direct Attached Storage (DAS) box they are calling the TR-004. This uses UBS 3.1 Gen.1 and supports up to four 3.5-inch SATA drives inside. As the name suggests, a DAS box allows users to directly connect external drives to the PC.…
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LaCie Rugged RAID Pro 4TB Portable HDD Review
Introduction LaCie Rugged RAID Pro 4TB Portable HDD I’ve had the pleasure to review several of LaCie‘s Rugged-series drives in the past, and it’s always been a pleasure. I have no doubt that I’ll have the same experience today where I’ll be taking a closer look at one of the…
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Intel Optane SSD 800P M.2 PCIe SSD RAID Review
Introduction After having a look at the Intel Optane SSD 800p with 58GB and 118GB capacity individually, it is time to have a look at how well the series performs in a RAID setup. After all, Intel sent me two of their 118GB drives (product link) for just this purpose.…
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MSI Rolls Out BIOS Update for CPU-Attached RAID Support
Now Faster Than Ever MSI has released a new BIOS update enabling CPU-attached RAID support on their latest boards. That includes not just mainstream desktop Z370-chipset boards, but HEDT X299 motherboards as well. CPU-attached RAID provides much faster performance over the usual RAID over PCH. Just how much faster? MSI…
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HighPoint RocketRAID 2840A 16-Channel HBA Now Available
HighPoint has announced the availability of the industry’s most affordable 16-Channel SAS RAID controller to date, the RocketRAID 2840A. The new HBA comes with an MSRP of just $249.00 while being low-profile and offering 16 drive channels. The RocketRAID 2840A builds on the success of the market-proven RocketRAID…
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HighPoint rSSD7101 NVMe Drive Now Available With up to 8TB
HighPoint continues to expand their impressive line of NVMe storage solution and this time it is the rSSD7101 series that gets an upgrade. These stand-alone RAID solutions can be easily installed into any compact workstation or server which has a free PCIe slot. And with it, you get 20 times…
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Toshiba AL14SX 15000RPM SAS eHDD RAID Review
Due to circumstances that happened during my review of the Toshiba AL14SX SAS HDD, I ended up with two drives in my office. So what’s more obvious than testing the scalability of these drives in a RAID setup. I rarely get the chance to take advantage of my SAS controllers…
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