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    Why are NAS devices so expensive

    When you factor in the software development costs of all the apps and firmware that companies like Synology, Thecus and QNAP put in their products it is easy to see where the bulk of the costs are in these units. The companies maintain an infrastructure to maintain the software and improve upon...
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    QNAP TS-470 Pro Turbo NAS Reviewed

    Uber TS-470 Several enthusiasts have upgraded their QNAP TS-x70 units to 16gb of RAM and an i7-3770T cpu. These upgrades create the opportunity for hardware encryption, improved virtualization performance and enhanced transcoding. With the improved virtualization a small business can...
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    GUI menus have disappeared.

    Merlin, Thanks for your thoughts. In their infinite wisdom Microsoft eliminated the emulation mode button. You can still access it via the tools menu. It did not help in my situation. But you are right, I will just use the Firefox browser.
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    GUI menus have disappeared.

    I am having a problem with viewing my RT-AC56 GUI. The problem began when I updated from internet Explorer 10 to Internet Explorer 11; as the problem does not exist when I access the GUI in Firefox. I was using firmware 374.41 but updated to 374.42 with no cure to my problem The problem is...
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    TS-870 Pro Performance Tests over 10GbE

    The results with the SSD cache show a 25-40% performance improvement. That is quite impressive. Also interesting to see that the files above 16mb were indeed properly filtered.
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    Confessions of a 10GbE Network Newbie

    Thanks for the great link. It seems for SSD cache usage on a NAS MLC flash is the best way to go.
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    Confessions of a 10GbE Network Newbie

    I am a little nervous about the ability of the SSD cache to sustain its performance over time as QNAP does not yet support TRIM. Do you believe that one can rely upon the internal garbage collection in the drive to keep its performance up to speed? I like the idea that QNAP has several...
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    Confessions of a 10GbE Network Newbie

    Very good write up Dennis and much appreciated. What has been you experience with SSD cache on the QNAP unit? I have read that it seems to provide great enhancement for 10gb network purposes and VM implementation but really does very little in other implementations. Intuitively it seems as if...
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