OVERVIEW You can see my full video review of this case here: https://youtu.be/fWhUqTJQPrI The Jonsbo N2 NAS case is designed for use with a Mini ITX form factor motherboard and supports SFX power supplies. It has a backplane for hot swap of up to five 3.5″ SATA hard drives. It has an all black aluminum […]
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As hard drive manufacturers continue to stuff the 3.5″ hard drive form factor with more and more storage density, new technologies and adaptations are constantly evolving. With hard drives now containing over 2TB per platter, it’s getting tricky to keep increasing that density. One technology that has been pushed into consumer level drives primarily is
February 05, 2023 S.M.A.R.T. Every hard drive and SSD has status codes that are tracked and stored on your hard drive or SSD, these are called S.M.A.R.T. attributes. You want to check your S.M.A.R.T. status regularly as it can offer a prediction of disk failure. S.M.A.R.T. stands for: Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology and is
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January 24, 2023 Intro When you think of SSD’s, Inland isn’t exactly a name brand that comes to mind, and unless you’ve shopped at Micro Center before you probably didn’t even know it existed. Inland is Micro Center’s in house name brand for a number of PC components. Micro Center, if you’re not aware, is
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Intro January 10, 2023 For the most part when it comes to technology you get what you pay for. But that doesn’t stop many from trying to find a great bargain. SSD prices have been dropping pretty aggressively over the last year. 2TB drives can frequently be found for under $100, but how good are
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October 3, 2022 Hard Drives offer great inexpensive storage with lots of capacity. While they don’t hold a candle to SSD’s when it comes to performance, you can’t beat the $/TB storage capacity of a hard drive, especially when it comes to 2TB or larger. That being said, most consumer level hard drives utilize a
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Posted 25 Sep 2022 12:45AM ET I previously reviewed the 2TB and 128GB Leven 2.5″ SSD’s (without any DRAM cache – see here: https://htwingnut.com/2022/03/06/review-leven-2tb-2-5-sata-ssd/) and apparently they now offer SSD’s with DRAM cache. I only saw drives up to 512GB, however, but did pick up a 256GB drive to review. They call it JS-600 Pro
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2022 September 10 What is the best media for long term storage is a question that I read frequently from online forums. First and foremost, as far as I’m aware there is no real “set it and forget it” long term storage. In this digital age, data needs to be validated regularly and cycled to
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If you have ever just wanted to store a bunch of files on your computer, only to have your hard drive chock full that you can’t store any more, and then realize that if you buy another hard drive you have to manipulate your data manually between them, then take a look at Stablebit Drivepool.
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Introduction SSD’s have come down in price over the last decade substantially. So much so that they have pretty much displaced laptop hard drives as the de facto storage device. The 2.5″ 7mm thick form factor limited hard drive capacities to 2TB, and while newer hard drive technology could likely improve that capacity, the cost
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