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    A NAS box for all seasons

    Posted May 28, 2013 - 1:47 pm

    We tested five Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances, ranging from 4T to 18TB in capacity and targeted for small offices and businesses with up to 20 to 25 users. All are more-or-less in the same price range: about $700 to $2,000 with drives.

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    Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2: Small, simple and affordable

    Posted March 12, 2013 - 2:05 pm

    Small businesses looking for network attached storage would be wise to look at the Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2. Administrators will find this appliance easy to manage and will appreciate its support for third-party add-ons.

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    Iomega px2-300d network-attached storage device

    Posted January 31, 2013 - 11:39 am

    The Iomega px2-300d is a two-bay NAS box that delivers very good performance, excellent backup and surveillance features, and a helpful LCD that reports on the unit's status (IP address, current time, storage remaining, and so on). Its EMC LifeLine operating system is also one of the more feature-rich ones in the industry. But you should buy this box bare--Iomega populates it with enterprise-class hard drives that jack up the price.

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    QNAP TS-269 Pro review: A fast and powerful NAS box with a steep learning curve

    Posted January 30, 2013 - 1:17 pm

    While pricey, excellent performance, copious software features, and state-of-the-art connectivity render this two-bay NAS box a good deal.

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    FreeNAS: Flexible, fast storage, and the price is right

    Posted January 28, 2013 - 12:13 pm

    It takes something different to stand out in the crowded network-attached storage market. How does free, as in free beer and free speech, sound?

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    Iomega StorCenter px2-300d NAS: A pretty performer

    Posted December 11, 2012 - 2:54 pm

    The Iomega px2-300d is a two-bay NAS box that delivers very good performance, excellent backup and surveillance features, and a helpful LCD that reports on the unit's status (IP address, current time, storage remaining, and so on). Its EMC LifeLine operating system is also one of the more feature-rich ones in the industry. But you should buy this box bare—Iomega populates it with enterprise-class hard drives that jack up the price.

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    Akitio Cloud Hybrid: Convenient NAS and USB storage in one

    Posted October 14, 2012 - 9:42 pm

    It's nice to be versatile, and the $105 Akitio Cloud Hybrid is just that. You can use this single-bay drive box either for network-attached storage (NAS) via the unit's ethernet jack, or for direct-attached storage (DAS) on a PC or Mac via the box's USB 3.0 port.

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    LaCie 2Big NAS offers 6TB of network storage

    Posted July 23, 2012 - 2:10 pm

    If you think that LaCie’s latest network attached storage product, the 2Big NAS, looks like something you’ve seen before, you’re right. But beneath the familiar appearance (the basic design of the 2Big has been around since 2007), there are a number of differences under the hood.

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    Hands-on: The ReadyNAS NV+ provides serious storage for prosumers

    Posted December 15, 2011 - 10:14 pm

    Netgear's ReadyNAS NV+ device includes storage for up to four 1TB hard drives along with three levels of RAID synchronization.

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    NAS shoot-out: QNAP TS-659 Pro II Turbo NAS

    Posted November 17, 2011 - 4:28 pm

    The QNAP NAS leads the pack with a smooth Web GUI and excellent performance

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    NAS shoot-out: Synology DiskStation DS1511+

    Posted November 8, 2011 - 5:30 pm

    The Synology hardware is solid and fast, but the software and cloud services lag leading competitors

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    NAS shoot-out: Netgear ReadyNAS Pro 6

    Posted November 8, 2011 - 5:18 pm

    The ReadyNAS scores with simple setup, easy management, and the best hardware in its class

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    NAS shoot-out: Iomega StorCenter px6-300d

    Posted October 19, 2011 - 11:34 am

    Iomega's free and easy replication and remote access services put a shine on the StorCenter

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    NAS shoot-out: Thecus N5200XXX

    Posted October 19, 2011 - 10:53 am

    The Thecus NAS is fast and flexible, but lacks the simplicity and ease that business users need

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    NAS shoot-out: 5 storage servers battle for business

    Posted October 19, 2011 - 6:22 am

    Five- and six-bay NAS cabinets from Iomega, Netgear, QNAP, Synology, and Thecus compete on speed, ease, and business features

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    Rack-mount QNAP storage server packs a wallop

    Posted February 22, 2011 - 12:23 pm

    With redundant power supplies, extensive backup options, and a wealth of handy features, the low-cost, multilingual QNAP TS-859U-RP offers flexible network storage to smaller shops.

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    Best NAS boxes for less than $1,000

    Posted December 6, 2010 - 6:13 pm

    Buffalo shattered the $1,000 barrier for a terabyte of shared storage back in 2005. With storage prices continuing to drop, that same $1,000 today can buy a four or even five terabyte network attached storage (NAS) device with RAID 5 disk redundancy, plus additional features, like backup storage licenses and indexing capabilities.

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    NASs for the masses

    Posted September 27, 2010 - 10:49 am

    Either because server disks are full or because virtualization is a natural growth path, organizations large and small are moving toward shared storage. For large enterprises, high-capacity storage-area networks make sense, but what about small or mid-sized enterprises new to shared storage?

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    Review: QNAP Turbo NAS serves storage with the works

    Posted July 22, 2010 - 10:03 pm

    With a multitude of software options and strong support for VMware and Hyper-V, the QNAP NAS appliance can play many roles in a growing small business

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    Qnap NAS Delivers Blistering-Fast Performance

    Posted July 13, 2010 - 10:58 am

    This network-attached storage box is the fastest we've ever tested--by a factor of two.

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    Seagate FreeAgent DocStar

    Posted March 15, 2010 - 12:51 pm

    Seagate offers a cool portable drive along with an optional dock that adds Pogoplug functionality.

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    Small business storage finds a new gear

    Posted February 15, 2010 - 8:40 pm

    Synology's supercharged DS1010+ Swiss Army NAS boasts impressive numbers in both performance and price.

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    Product review: Synology Disk Station DS409slim

    Posted November 19, 2009 - 2:15 pm

    Synology's Disk Station DS409slim DS409slim is a uniquely-designed NAS device that has four bays for laptop-size hard drives, numerous RAID configurations, multiple features that advanced users will enjoy, and--a welcome improvement over other NAS systems--a simple setup system.

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    Synology offers iSCSI on the cheap

    Posted October 5, 2009 - 1:25 pm

    While the Promise/DataCore combination offers an excellent feature set at a relatively low price, how about an 8TB RAID5 iSCSI system for $2,500? Synology makes the DS509+, a storage device intended as an SMB NAS system, but it supports iSCSI as well, and costs about $870 at Amazon.com.

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    Intel's NASty little test tool

    Posted May 7, 2009 - 2:05 pm

    Intel NAS Performance Toolkit is a NAS test tool that doesn't take a hard drive engineer to understand and use. Because it actually plays back various types of file actions, this tool is much more "real world" than similar offerings.
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