QNAP TS-269L 2-Bay Turbo NAS Server
Today, CDRLabs brings you a review of QNAP's two-bay TS-x69L series Turbo NAS, the TS-269L. Designed to meet the needs of home and small office users, the TS-269L is powered by a dual-core Intel Atom processor and comes equipped with 1GB of DDR3 RAM, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB 3.0 ports and a 512MB DOM (Disk on Module) with dual firmware image design. Like QNAP's other Turbo NAS servers, the TS-269L offers a long list of features including cross-platform file sharing, centralized storage and backups for Windows, Mac and Linux users. It can also stream multimedia content to network media players or play it directly on the TV in the living room using its built-in HDMI port and HD Station.

WD, a Western Digital company and world leader for storage deployed in datacenters, today announced availability of its innovative WD Se line of hard drives, the first designed for scale-out datacenter deployments. Built on an enterprise-grade platform for reliable 24x7x365 datacenter operation, WD Se is tailored to deliver the right combination of performance, reliability and robustness for large-scale replicated environments, mid-sized network attached storage (NAS) deployment, and backup/archiving applications.
Seagate Technology today announced the new Seagate Video 3.5 HDD — the industry’s first 4TB, 3.5-inch hard disk drive (HDD) engineered specifically for use in video applications such as digital video recorders (DVRs), set-top boxes (STBs), and surveillance systems. Purpose-built for video solutions, the Video 3.5 HDD can store up to 480 hours of high-definition (HD) content making it the industry’s highest-capacity drive designed specifically for video.