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ATTO NS-3252 Thunderbolt 3 to 25 GbE adapter

June 26, 2024 Jim 2 Comments

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...]

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Anker SOLIX C1000/C1000X Portable Power Station woes

May 2, 2024 Jim Leave a Comment

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...]

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Deep sixing the OWC Mercury Pro U.2

December 6, 2023 Jim Leave a Comment

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...]

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Measuring QNAP NAS performance

November 19, 2023 Jim 2 Comments

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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Installing 10/25 GbE capability in the QNAP TVS-h874T

November 18, 2023 Jim Leave a Comment

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...]

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