My Anker power station, which I'm using as a UPS, stopped charging the battery. I watched the charge decrease over a couple of weeks, and when it got down to 78%, I figured I needed to do something about it. I poked around the 'net, and found that someone had fixed the same … [Read more...]
Deep sixing the OWC Mercury Pro U.2
I've now had three weeks of experience with my Thunderbolt-attached QNAP TVX-h874T NAS. In contrast to my time with the OWC Mercury Pro U.2, it has been painless and glitch free. I can start and stop the computer, and the NAS connects automatically every time. I can start … [Read more...]
Measuring QNAP NAS performance
I got the Thunderbolt-attached QNAP TVS-h874T upgraded to 25/10 GbE networking and installed two M.2 8 TB drives. See the previous post for details. Now it's time to do some performance testing. A practical way to measure system-level NAS performance is to copy files of varying … [Read more...]
Installing 10/25 GbE capability in the QNAP TVS-h874T
The QNAP TVS-h874T has two PCIe slots. One comes loaded with the Thunderbolt interface. One is empty. The base box has two 2.5 GbE ports. If you want higher speeds, you need to install a PCIe card. I ordered one with two 10/25 GbE ports. QNAP's instructions say to do the … [Read more...]
Thunderbolt NAS vs software RAID
Those of you who have been following along on my mass storage adventures for the last month or so know that all of the OWC Thunderbolt-attached SSDs I've tried -- two 4M2's and one Mercury Pro U.2 -- have been unreliable when connected to my Windows PCs. Repeated calls to OWC … [Read more...]
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