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The network-attached storage (NAS) market had a break-out decade in the 2010s, with a large number of vendors trying to get a slice of the pie. Brands such as EMC / Lenovo and Thecus have fallen by the wayside, and even established storage vendors like Seagate decided to drop out of the market. QNAP and Synology have held firm in the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) NAS market meant for home users, prosumers, SOHO, and SMB installations. ASUSTOR (backed by ASUS) has also been regularly releasing NAS units since their first product appeared in late 2012. TerraMaster released their first NAS around the same time, but opted to focus more on the direct-attached storage segment throughout the 2010s. The brand has shown renewed interest in the...
Motorola Droid 4 Early Test Data Confirms RAZR Internals and Software
Motorola has produced a lot of phones in the last several months that iterate the same hardware platform. While this is typical of a manufacturer (just look at the...
9 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/12/2012
Cactus Ridge: Understanding the New, More Affordable Thunderbolt Controller
Eagle Ridge, Image Courtesy iFixit When we first published the details of Intel's 2012 line of Thunderbolt controllers we pointed out that the specs of the two new controllers...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012j5Create Wormhole Switch Brings KVM and File Sharing Across Mobile and Desktop
j5Create first revealed their Wormhole Switch as a simple way to control and share files across two Windows PC's. Connect both ends of the included cable to the separate...
1 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/12/2012
Canonical Brings Ubuntu To Televisions
Canonical, a services and software company that backs open-source projects like Ubuntu, recently announced they would be moving to compete in the Smart TV space. The project, called Ubuntu...
3 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/12/2012Belkin Brings Home Automation, TV and Thunderbolt Solutions to CES
Belkin's product portfolio stretches across a huge range from A/V and networking solutions to iPod and Kindle cases. Their CES both focused primarily on their home electronics products with...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/12/2012
Dune HD Pro : A Premium Entertainment System using the Sigma Designs SMP8910
Dune HD is one of the most respected middleware developers in the media player scene. By exclusively restricting themselves to Sigma Designs, they have managed to produce an...
2 by Ganesh T S on 1/12/2012
QNAP at CES : SMB Lineup Refresh and a 200TB+ SAS Storage Rack
QNAP is one of the more popular vendors in the SMB NAS space along with Synology. At CES, QNAP had a booth with samples of selected lineup members. The 1...
4 by Ganesh T S on 1/12/2012
Synology's DSM 4.0 with CloudStation : A Private Dropbox Solution
The NAS market has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years, but the hard drive shortage resulted in a weak Q4 for the NAS industry as...
4 by Ganesh T S on 1/12/2012
Lenovo’s IdeaPad Yoga 13 with Windows 8: This Is the Ultrabook We Want
We were back at Lenovo’s suite today and got a chance to spend a bit more time with a laptop that we didn’t get around to discussing on Tuesday...
31 by Jarred Walton on 1/12/2012
Sneak Peek at Future Toshiba Tablets
Ahead of CES, Toshiba revealed their Thrive successor, the Excite X10. This 7.7 mm thick slate would feature a 10.1" 1280x800 Gorilla Glass display and run Android 3.2 (and...
9 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/12/2012
CES: Seagate Combines 500GB Portable Drive With Mobile Hotspot in Proof of Concept
While perusing the Verizon Wireless booth, a chunky little device caught our eye. Though considered a proof of concept, and not scheduled for release yet, a Seagate device was...
0 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/11/2012
Crucial 50GB Adrenaline SSD Cache, Available in Q1
Earlier this week Crucial announced its first SSD caching solution: the Adrenaline SSD. The drive will be available in a single capacity: 50GB with 64GB of 25nm MLC NAND...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/11/2012
Intel's DX11 Demo, Now on an Ultrabook
Two days ago Intel made the mistake of playing a video of a DX11 game (F1 2011) instead of running the game itself on an Ivy Bridge Ultrabook. We...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/11/2012
802.11ac RF Hands-On with Buffalo AirStation WZR-1750H
We just stopped by Buffalo's booth at CES 2012, who were kind enough to let us use a WiSpy DBx from Metageek we're working on reviewing to look at...
16 by Brian Klug on 1/11/2012
NVIDIA Tegra 3: Games Plus SplashTop Streaming of Skyrim
Tegra 3 tablets are a big thing for NVIDIA right now, and we’ve seen quite a few new tablets using the SoC. At NVIDIA’s booth, they had a bunch...
12 by Jarred Walton on 1/11/2012
Ambarella Shows off iOne SoC Applications, Wireless Camera Development Kit
Last CES I dropped by Ambarella where they had just announced their iOne smart camera SoC. Ambarella is a big player in the camera and encoder ASIC business, and...
1 by Brian Klug on 1/11/2012
HP Announces ENVY 14 Spectre Ultrabook
To keep the flow of CES coverage steady, HP has announced ENVY 14 Spectre Ultrabook. The use of glass makes Spectre special: The lid, display, palmrest and trackpad are...
32 by Kristian Vättö on 1/11/2012
D-Link at CES : Cloud-Friendly Routers and IP Cameras
We took some time to swing by D-Link's press room and got a look at all the nice networking gear announced via multiple press releases yesterday. In keeping up...
6 by Ganesh T S on 1/11/2012
Hands-on with the Sprint Galaxy Nexus LTE
Sprint had a reception this evening that gave us a chance to get a closer look at their first LTE devices: the Sierra Wireless Tri-Network Hotspot, LG Viper 4G...
6 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/11/2012
Transformer Prime Gets 4.0.3 (ICS) Update
A couple of days earlier than originally expected, ASUS pushed out an update to its Transformer Prime bringing the tablet up to Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich). I brought...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/11/2012
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