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Over the past year we at TestFreaks have reviewed numerous NAS units. During this time Synology has provided us with several different models ranging from those aimed at the home user to others targeting large-scale business. Today we will be looking at one of their newer units the Synology DiskStation DS213. This unit’s target group is workgroups and office environments with its encryption feature being a key selling point. However it does include numerous other features that cater to home and business users as well.
Today I am taking a look at the new Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G3 64GB USB thumb drive. As its name implies this is a USB 3.0 drive and according to the specifications supports transfer rates of up to 150MB/s Read and 70MB/s Write. I will test the reality of that a little later in this review. You may be pleasantly surprised by the results.
Over the years, Kingston have been one of the leading manufacturers of solid state drives and their selection of drives range from entry level consumer options right up to their top end HyperX editions. Whilst it’s great having a top end drive, most day to day users either don’t have the needs to push a HyperX drive to the limit or don’t have the money for the top end options. This is where the V series of drives come in, offering solid state benefits without the same high price tags. Though this is not to say though that they are couch potatoes and are not worth buying. For many first time users, these drives are a great first step into the world of solid state storage.
Western Digital or just WD is a well known hard drive manufacturer, and they really had
a break trough with their Raptor drives some years back.
The product we are looking at here, is their WD Black WD4001FAEX with a 4TB capacity.
But what about the performance?
Around a month ago i was asked to attend a technology related seminar for which i had to prepare and bring enough material to fill a large part of the 6 hours total it was ment to last (i say ment because i ended up leaving a lot sooner). The result was me filling a total of 52GB worth of data from charts, benchmarks, product pictures and Full HD clips on my favorite Kingston HyperX 128GB USB Flash Drive. Now the interesting part was that i wasn't really the only person in charge of bringing material for the seminar and so in the end there were five of us each carrying a USB flash drive with enough data to fill not 6 but 30 hours. Because of that in the end we all started talking about flash drives, how their prices have reached an all-time low and which are the best ones in the market currently not only in terms of performance but also in appearance and build quality. Naturally the award winning HyperX and PREDATOR flash drives by Kingston where at the center of our discussion but it seems that Kingston is on a roll since the very next day we received their latest DataTraveler Ultimate G3 64GB USB 3.0 Flash drive.
There are two drawbacks to living life in the fast lane and those are the cost of Solid State Storage and its limited capacity. Both of those drawbacks are starting to disappear rapidly as technology marches forward but, none the less they are still the primary concerns to enthusiasts at present. Today we are going to bench a Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD and see what kind of performance this large capacity drive has to offer; RWL style..
The StorCenter ix4-300d is a compact NAS devices with room for four disks, two network ports, two rear USB 2.0 ports, one frontal USB 3.0 port, and a display on the front. These are features traditionally reserved for more expensive high-end devices, and makes it a pretty complete storage device.
Today we have the 256GB version of the Ultra Plus connected to our test system and will find out how it compares to numerous alternative models.
Thecus strikes gold with the new N7510, a high performance NAS that costs less than $100 per drive bay, and it has more features than you'll ever use. This is the model we've waited a long time for.
The new Armor A15 USB 3.0 Portable HDD from Silicon Power was designed to withstand shocks, vibrations in a better way than the majority of products from the same category. The case comes with a shock absorbent silica gel cover modeled in such a shape to increase the grip so we won’t drop it on the floor easily by mistake. A15 not available only at 1TB, but it can be also found at 750GB and 500GB capacities, at different price points.
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