The UGREEN MA100 – A $9999 4-Bay Intelligent Home NAS??? When UGREEN introduced its HomeAgent range of HA100/HA100 PRO controlled smart home devices, most of the attention inevitably landed on the MasterAgent MA100, a 4-bay system carrying a $9,999 Super Early Bird price and a stated MSRP of $19,999. That places it far outside the […]

Mango 2 Review: A Smaller Kind of Gl.iNet Router I have reviewed quite a few GL.iNet travel routers over the years, but the Mango 2 (GL-MG1300) takes the range in a slightly different direction. Instead of adding faster wireless standards, more powerful hardware and an increasingly large enclosure, GL.iNet has returned to the compact and […]

What is the UniFi Travel Router LR? The UniFi Travel Router Long-Range, or UTR-LR, is a compact $99 travel router designed to provide a private, managed network when using hotel, rental property, office or other shared internet connections. It joins the existing $79 UniFi Travel Router rather than replacing it, retaining the same general platform […]

UniFi UNAS 2 and UNAS 4 1 Year Later Review When Ubiquiti introduced the UNAS 2 and UNAS 4 in September 2025, the company was attempting to bring its comparatively simple UniFi Drive storage platform into a pair of compact desktop systems. The UNAS 2 targeted smaller deployments with 2 HDD bays, while the UNAS […]

A New Pocket Travel Router on the way – The Mango 2 Revealed I have followed GL.iNet’s travel routers for years, but many of its recent models have become increasingly powerful, expensive and physically larger. The newly revealed Mango 2 (GL-MG1300) takes the opposite approach, returning to the small and relatively affordable format of the […]

Does Fygo OS deserve your data? Following my full FygoOS software review, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kjEHKEMkf8, I wanted to put together a more detailed Q&A covering the questions that came up before, during and after testing the platform. These questions are a mixture of my own points from spending several days with the […]

A New and Easier Way to Mod Your Synology NAS Synology’s gradual shift towards business and enterprise users has changed what some home, enthusiast and homelab users can do with DSM, particularly when it comes to 3rd-party drives, SSDs, network adapters, hardware transcoding and other unofficial modifications. Community-developed scripts have helped restore or extend many […]

UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber – Still Great Value 1 Year On… The UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber arrived in early 2025 as a compact 10GbE gateway positioned between Ubiquiti’s smaller desktop consoles and its larger rackmount Dream Machine systems. It combined multi-gigabit routing, an integrated UniFi controller, optional M.2 storage and support for the wider UniFi […]

TrueNAS vs UnRAID – Which One Deserves Your Data? TrueNAS vs Unraid. Both can turn standard x86 hardware into a powerful NAS, application server and virtualisation platform, but neither approaches the job in quite the same way. More importantly, the question is not simply which platform has the longest feature list. It is which one […]

10 WAYS that NAS is Getting Screwed Over the past 18 to 24 months, the consumer and prosumer Network Attached Storage (NAS) market has undergone a noticeable shift in design priorities, hardware architecture, and software accessibility. While broader industry pressures—ranging from component supply constraints to shifting manufacturing priorities—have introduced genuine engineering challenges, many recent market […]

UniFi Travel Router UTR 6 Months Later Review When the UniFi Travel Router, or UTR, first arrived around 6 months ago, it was Ubiquiti’s first proper attempt at a dedicated travel router. It was a small, USB-C powered device designed to sit between your devices and whatever internet connection was available at the time, whether […]

GL.iNet Flint 4 First Look: What Has Emerged So Far I first saw the GL.iNet Flint 4 at CES 2026, but information about the router became relatively limited in the months that followed. GL.iNet has now formally presented the Flint 4, also known as the GL-BE14000, as an upcoming tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router aimed at […]

Shrge Disk Pro 2 Mobile Dock – Problems Solved? The SHARGE Disk Pro 2 combines an M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure with a compact USB-C docking station designed for use with phones, laptops, handheld consoles, cameras and other portable devices. It follows the original Disk Pro but takes a more flexible approach, allowing users to install […]

A New DIY NAS Software Challenger! But Does FygoOS Deserve Your Data? Fygo OS is a relatively new NAS operating system aimed at users who want to build their own storage server without relying on a traditional turnkey NAS brand or a more technical platform such as TrueNAS, Unraid or OpenMediaVault. It runs on x86 […]

TerraMaster NAS Prime Day 2026 Deals: Intel NAS with 2.5GbE, 5GbE and 10GbE TerraMaster has launched its Prime Day 2026 promotion, offering discounts across a broad range of home, professional and business NAS systems. Running from June 17 to June 26, the sale includes several of TerraMaster’s latest Intel-powered NAS devices, ranging from affordable two-bay […]

Amazon Prime Day 2026 Bargains on Synology, QNAP, UGREEN, Terramaster, Seagate and More to Watch That’s right, it’s that time of the year again—Amazon Prime Day 2026 is officially here! The mid-summer mega sale is rolling out across the globe, and for those of us whose Prime subscriptions have been quietly ticking over all year, […]

TerraMaster TOS 7 is no longer just a “future update” or beta talking point; it is now the software platform TerraMaster is using to make a much more serious argument against Synology DSM, QNAP QTS/QuTS, ASUSTOR ADM and UGREEN UGOS. In our 2026 revisit, the biggest change is not one single app, but the way […]

ZimaCube 2 NAS Review – The Difficult ‘Second Album’… The ZimaCube 2 is IceWhale’s latest desktop NAS and self-hosting system, and this review is focused specifically on the standard non-Pro model priced at $799. It follows on from the original ZimaCube and ZimaCube Pro, but it arrives in a very different context. IceWhale is no […]

Is Synology Moving Away From Routers? Synology is still best known for NAS hardware, DSM, backup software, private cloud storage, surveillance, and business data management, but its router range has always been an interesting side branch of the wider ecosystem and one that I have genuinely enjoyed reviewing. Products such as the RT2600ac, MR2200ac, WRX560 […]