Synology Cube Station NAS review

• Yosemite FileKeeper Pro 2.8 review
  Reviewing backup software is usually a chore. There is a legion of products out there, some good, some very comprehensive but just too difficult to use. A few are awful, including some from supposedly big software houses. This one turned out to be very different.
• VMware ESX Server 3.5 review
  ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 build on the strong VI3 base to improve scalability and add key new management features. These evolutionary upgrades fill important gaps and ostensibly set the stage for the next big release, which may mark the advent of virtualisation as the rule in data centres, not the newcomer. VMware has plenty of work to do to get there, but the company's track record of solid, stable, production-ready releases continues intact with VI3.5.
• Seagate FreeAgent Go review
  There are cheaper and faster portable hard drives out there, but what sets this one apart is the concept of the portable personal workspace. It's not perfect - nor is it the only way of providing such a thing - but it's certainly thought-provoking.
• Transtec PROVIGO 210 Mini-SAN review
  An improved Zetera Z-SAN-based product for the small business market. Z-SAN is proprietary compared to open iSCSI and represents good value.
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• Iomega StorCenter Wireless Network Storage review
  A wirelessly-connected, network-attached storage box that has moderate performance, good backup facilities and a low price.
• Buffalo MiniStation TurboUSB review
  Portable hard drives should be about as interesting as the oversize cigarette packets they resemble. This one reckons it's special.
• InfoTrend EonStor A12S-G2130 review
  The A12S-G2130 is a versatile SAS/SATA RAID array with a good desktop management tool, whose RS-232 and browser-based config interfaces are clunky but largely irrelevant anyway.
• Adaptec Snap Server 720i review
  For a small business looking for mid-priced SAN, the Adaptecx Snap Server family offers a powerful array of tools at a reasonable price.
• ToughTech Mini review
  A solidly-engineered external drive with high capacity and small dimensions that is quiet in operation.
  
• HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition 5.1 review
  The latest version of HP's SMI-S-based storage management product manages heterogeneous storage networks.
• Sun Fire X4500 server review
  The X4500 is nicknamed the Thumper for a reason – 48 SATA drives in a single 4U chassis accompanying a dual-Opteron server with two PCI-X slots. There’s no hardware RAID, however, and running anything but Solaris with ZFS is going to artificially hamstring the box. It’s not going to supplant the SAN anytime soon, but the X4500 will certainly make waves.
• Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ review
  The Infrant ReadyNAS appliances are incredibly easy to use and the NV+ is perfect for an office or home environment. They are cost effective and can grow with use.
• Intransa PCU100 review
  The Intransa PCU100 offers superb 10Gbit iSCSI performance, scalability, and manageability in a relatively inexpensive package.
  
• Imation Odyssey removable disk storage review
  A desktop data protection product with the speed of disk and the portability of tape.
• Tandberg Data RDX QuikStor review
  If you're in the market for a tape drive system but are repelled by the high initial costs, this device will fit the bill more than adequately. Better still, unlike most tape formats, higher capacity cartridges that Tandberg is promising to produce will work just as well as the initial, 40GB one the company threw into the box.
  
• EMC RepliStor SMB Edition 6.1 review
  The product grew on us when we got mirroring running, and files dropped onto machine A magically appeared on machine B.
  
• ArchiWare PresStore 2.3 review
  Despite documentation which suggests that the translation from German to English hasn't quite been completed, this is an easy-to-use product that beats offering from more celebrated players.
• Packeteer iShared review
  A WAN traffic and application accelerator that's great for organisations with a heavy investment in Windows.
• DISUK Paranoia 2 and SafeTape review
  Paranoia is a stand-alone encryption and compression appliance that sits between the backup server and the storage device; SafeTape is an appliance that includes both the Paranoia hardware and an in-built tape drive (any one of LTO, SDLT or AIT).
  

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