15 September 2020

Toshiba says its 3.5-inch N300 NAS Hard Drive offers unprecedented reliability for NAS and other high-performance storage systems.

It is optimized to meet the reliability, endurance, performance and scalability requirements of 24-hour x 7-day high-capacity storage for personal, home office and small business use.

The N300 is available in capacities of 4 TB up to 16 TB. They can be used for Network Attached Storage (NAS), desktop RAID and servers, multimedia server storage, private cloud storage same as small business server and storage.

15 September 2020

Western Digital is a San Joe, California-based computer hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company.

It designs, manufactures and sells data technology products, including storage devices, data centre systems and cloud storage services.

The company has long had a decent reputation in the hard drive space and it prides itself on producing NAS drives that are polished, reliable and user-friendly.

15 September 2020

Synology, based in Taipei, Taiwan, brings to market its DiskStation DS918+.

The product is said to be more powerful than most NAS drives in its ballpark. It comes with more memory, a faster processor, as well as twice as many drive bays.

15 September 2020

Netgear has a solid reputation as a hardware maker in the IT and comms space.

This has been strengthened by its strong track record in the manufacturing of NAS drives. 

The ReadyNAS 214 comes with extra capacity – it has four drive bays rather than two and the disks ones installs can be set up in a variety of ways.

15 September 2020

Drobo is a storage company that’s been through a renaissance in that it has decided to deliver products with an emphasis on simplicity.

The streamlined 5N2 comes with an intuitive user interface as well as five bays, designed to cater for all storage needs.

It also comes with a 1.6GHz CPU and 2GB of RAM, while additional features, such as the HDMI port, are kept down to a minimum.

15 September 2020

The single-bay TS-128 is said to be very reliable, while providing remote access, strong app support and a friendly user interface to manage data.

One way of describing it is It’s akin to an external hard drive with network connectivity.