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Feds seize OnePlus Buds, boast they're 'counterfeit' AirPods
CPB is the outfit of goons that has been deployed to put down social unrest in the US, right? They haven’t exactly distinguished themselves in that role either.
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Synology announces the DS1621xs+, a high-end network attached storage device
I’ve got the 4 Bay Pegasus TB 3 on my desk at the main photo retouching Mac. It is amazing. Not cheap, but there is a reason they command a premium price.sflocal said:
I own two promise thunderbolt 2 arrays. The R6 and R8. They work great,polymnia said:
I think Promise is what you are looking for. Connect the Promise RAID device to a host Mac, then network via Thunderbolt to another Mac.sflocal said:I get that it is a NAS drive, but if this were a Thunderbolt3 system, it would really kick some glutes. What a bummer.
I assume this is not a terribly robust system since Thunderbolt isn't a common networking connection. Not sure how well it would scale up to more than 2 Macs. Can you just continue to daisy chain Macs until you run out of thunderbolt cables & Macs?
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Synology announces the DS1621xs+, a high-end network attached storage device
Full disclosure, I own an older Diskstation (DS1812+) and even though I am defending the Diskstation's lack of bandwidth, it is exactly that lack of bandwidth that has kept if from being a front-line storage device for my photo retouching workflow. It just isn't fast enough. It has worked nicely for stashing dormant project archives and it is a great host for my Plex and iTunes media.
I'm happy to see the 10GbE & SSD cache drives move down from the expensive Rackstation line to the more budget-friendly Diskstation line. I would love to use a NAS device for primary project storage, freeing my primary Mac workstation from hosting this storage. It would be easier to access project files using my MacBook Pro when I'm away from my desk, not to mention being able to remote into the Diskstation remotely.
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Synology announces the DS1621xs+, a high-end network attached storage device
I think Promise is what you are looking for. Connect the Promise RAID device to a host Mac, then network via Thunderbolt to another Mac.sflocal said:I get that it is a NAS drive, but if this were a Thunderbolt3 system, it would really kick some glutes. What a bummer.
I assume this is not a terribly robust system since Thunderbolt isn't a common networking connection. Not sure how well it would scale up to more than 2 Macs. Can you just continue to daisy chain Macs until you run out of thunderbolt cables & Macs? -
Synology announces the DS1621xs+, a high-end network attached storage device
Seems pretty clear 10GbE could be saturated by Demanding users. It’s still far superior to the prior 1GbE networking.rob53 said:So six slots, probably using RAID, while the two NVMe blades are for buffering making it very similar to a better Fusion drive. The write speed looks like a single NVMe drive while the read speed might be a combination of RAID 0 over six drives along with an NVMe drive. I totally understand using HDDs for longer term storage along with the faster NVMe drives for immediate writing. I checked the website and it didn't really document any speeds. A bigger question is whether 10Gb ethernet can really handle speeds like this. This also means at-home workers need the most powerful Macs to even get 10Gb ethernet. I would like to see Thunderbolt3/4 amplifiers to extend the distances between workers and NAS. If this is only for one or two workers, are there any storage systems that run on Thunderbolt that can be share between multiple users?If max storage performance is the goal, NAS isn't your solution. But for a workgroup, local and/or remote, NAS is quite compelling.
