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QNAP TS-233 NAS review! Build your own cloud!
Backing up a home office or a family of computers and phones is easy! Two drives to protect data, high speed connections, powerful ARM SOC, and great media capabilities!
Setting up this new two-bay box, let’s check out what it can do! Continue reading “QNAP TS-233 Two Bay Home NAS: Build Your Own Cloud!”
Seagate Ultraslim BackUp Plus 1TB Hard Drive Review! I need to back up and swap files a lot while on the go. Producing video while traveling, I like to make sure I have duplicates of all the video assets and files I need. My current travel storage companion is this petite drive from Seagate. Here’s a quick review from a mobile video producer’s perspective!
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I couldn’t help it. Sorry folks. I just couldn’t walk away from a bad chickenpox joke.
Anywho, this is actually cool new tech. Seagate has been working its SMR process to increases data density on hard drive platters. SMR stands for Shingled Magnetic Recording, and it works pretty much like how it sounds. By shrinking the space between tracks, and then staggering them like roof top shingles, you can increase the amount of storage on a surface.
Starting in 2014, Seagate will move from 1TB per platter to 1.25TB per platter, and shipping four platter drives means we’ll see 5TB storage next year. Pretty exciting stuff as I seem to increase the amount of digital content I create logarithmically each year…
Full PR after the jump.
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