The New UGREEN HomeAgent Series Revealed UGREEN has spent the last few years building out its NAS range, but its latest announcement takes the company in a rather different direction. I was in Boston for the reveal of UGREEN HomeAgent, a new family of systems designed to bring local storage, AI processing, home surveillance and […]

New SSDs for NAS Released by Sandisk – Too late? Sandisk has introduced 2 SSD families designed specifically for NAS use, covering both conventional 2.5-inch SATA storage and higher-performance M.2 NVMe applications. The SANDISK NAS 600 and NAS 800 series are intended for prosumers, creative professionals and small businesses using always-on systems for shared storage, […]

Synology Release the RS1226+ 8-Bay Rackstation NAS Synology has now formally introduced the RackStation RS1226+ and RS1226RP+, its latest compact 2U, 8-bay rackmount NAS systems for small and medium-sized businesses, branch offices, communications cabinets and other deployments where rack space is limited. Released in July 2026, these are not intended to be large, full-depth enterprise […]

CWWK N150 2x10GbE 3x NVMe 6 Bay NAS Motherboard Review The CWWK NAS-N150-6P is a Mini-ITX NAS motherboard built for compact DIY storage systems, with the reviewed version using Intel’s N150 processor. This is a 4-core, 4-thread Twin Lake CPU with a 6W processor base power and a maximum turbo frequency of 3.6GHz, so it […]

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, […]

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 […]

The Beelink EX Mate Pro – A Very, VERY Different Kind of DAS! The Beelink EX Mate Pro sits somewhere between a USB4 v2 docking station, a desktop storage enclosure, a laptop charger, and a small conferencing accessory. Rather than focusing on 1 function, it combines several common desk-side add-ons into a single 99 x […]

A More Focused 4-Bay NAS From UGREEN – the DXP4800GT Review UGREEN has moved quickly in the NAS market, and the DXP4800GT is one of the clearer examples of that. I first looked at this model when it appeared through UGREEN’s China-facing material, then again around Computex 2026 when it became clear that it was […]

UGREEN’s AMD 4-Bay NAS Goes Global At Computex 2026, UGREEN revealed the DXP4800GT, a new 4-bay NAS that takes the company’s desktop NAS lineup in a different direction from the Intel-powered DXP models already on the market. I first discussed this NAS a week ago when it appeared through UGREEN’s China-facing material, and at the […]

A New AMD Direction for UGREEN NAS – the DXP4800GT NAS The UGREEN DXP4800 GT is a newly revealed 4-bay NAS that, at least for now, appears to be aimed at the Chinese market. It sits in the same broad family as UGREEN’s existing DXP4800 systems, but it takes the hardware in a different direction […]

Minisforum Expand Their NAS Range with 2 New Flash NAS – The S5 and S7 SSD Systems Minisforum has revealed 2 new all-flash NAS systems, the Minisforum S5 and Minisforum S7, as part of a joint event with Intel in Xiamen, China. The announcement, covered in the official Minisforum press release and by VideoCardz, places […]

UniFi UNVR Gen 2 and UNVR Gen 2 Pro: What Has Actually Changed? UniFi’s UNVR range has always occupied a fairly clear role in the Protect ecosystem: a dedicated rackmount recorder for users who have outgrown smaller gateway-based recording, or who want their surveillance storage separated from the rest of their network hardware. With the […]

UGREEN NASync Celebrates 2 Years – But Is UGREEN Ready for the Big Leagues? Two years ago, the popular battery and PC accessory company UGREEN, launched their Kickstarter campaign for the NASync personal NAS series of devices. The brand already had a steadily growing foothold in China with their DX series of NAS devices, but […]