Don't you just love those NAS model numbers? The QNAP TBS-h574TX-i5-16G-US is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box that has slots for five hot-swappable E1.S Solid State Disk (SSD) modules. It comes with adapters so that you can use M.2 2280 SSDs, which are more available now … [Read more...]
ATTO NS-3252 Thunderbolt 3 to 25 GbE adapter
The adapter arrived today. A card in the package said to go to www.atto.com/gettingstarted. I tried that, and got a page not found. I went to the ATTO website and registered tha product. I looked for Windows 11 drivers and found a page that said I could download them … [Read more...]
Anker SOLIX C1000/C1000X Portable Power Station woes
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...]
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