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Our second product review from ASUSTOR is the AS-304T, a consumer NAS for the family or power user use, with an affordable price point.
This bundle includes a faster SSD drive than the native MacBook Air models while providing an enclosure for the original Apple SSD. If you can use a screwdriver, then your can swap out your original SSD for the Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD. These drives are designed for MacBook Air 2011 editions and come in 120GB, 180GB, 240GB or 480GB models.
It has been a while since we have looked at a Synology product, and today we are reviewing their new RS212 NAS server designed for an office environment. The RS212 is a rack mount NAS server supplied with a replaceable motherboard and support for hot swappable drives. All the I/O ports are placed on the front panel for quick, easy access. The RS212 is designed to withstand high temperature environments, up to 45c.
We can conclude from our price comparison tool that SSDs with capacities of 120/128 GB and 250/256 GB are by far the most popular. It's not really a surprise, as 60 and 64 GB drives are almost too small to be really useful. You could fit Windows 7 and a couple games, and that's about it. Not only that, smaller capacity SSDs are slower than the larger ones, simply because there are less flash chips that can be accessed simultaneously. SSDs with a capacity of 480 and 512 GB are less popular because of the very high prices. Not many consumers feel like spending £420 or more for just storage. We asked all SSD manufacturers to send us a number of samples with capacities between 120 and 256 GB and a SATA 600 interface, and we ended up with 48 different solid state drives for our round-up.
For a storage reviewer, there is no better discovery than something that cuts the time of storage reviews as most can take a week or longer. We first spoke of this in 2010 when we reviewed the Vantec External Dock which didn’t quite meet our needs. This report examines the HighPoint 5322 Dual eSATA 6Gbps External Dock, along with their RocketRAID 2711 6Gbps RAID card and, to promote this gear as being a game changer just may be an understatement.
We are witnessing an increasing number of applications of the Thunderbolt technology. After Apple, Promise and LaCie, now Western Digital is launching a product that takes advantage of this lightning fast connection technology in the shape of the WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo. We tested the 4TB version of WD's new external hard drive.
On the PCSTATS test bench is the finest 1.0TB example Western Digital has to offer from its Caviar Black series. The Western Digital WD1001FALS has a capacity of 1 TeraBytes (1,000 GB) and is equipped with an industry standard 32MB cache. The three platters beneath its shiny metal exterior rotate at 7,200RPM and have a density of 333GB, so this 3.5" SATA II HDD should come close to attaining is listed sustained transfer rate of 106MB/s in PCSTATS' benchmark set
Corsair's Flash Voyager GS carries tons of storage capacity and performance, but at what cost? Let's dive in and take a close look now.
On the test bench today is Plextor's PX-B310U external Blu-ray drive. In addition to Blu-ray playback (but not burning), this full sized external ODD, which connects to the PC over USB2.0 cable, doubles up as a DVD and CD burner. The PX-B310U supports DVD reading and writing in both the + and - formats, as well as reading and writing to DVD-RAM and Dual-Layered DVD discs.
Even the fastest networks can seem slow when you have to transfer large files from one computer to another computer, and short of physically moving hard drives between computers a network was really the fastest option available. USB3 is destined to change our perceptions regarding the speed, especially when it comes to connected storage.
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