The new Synology DS1520+ is the direct successor to the DS1019+, and is the largest member of the 20-series Plus lineup.
Storage Short Take #22
2020 Predictions galore, Intel’s embarrassing position, and more. Oh, and 5G will give you cancer, make you infertile, get your daughter pregnant and put hard-working Britons out of a job. Or not.
From Quora: What is better? 512GB SDD, 1TB HDD + 256GB SSD, or 512GB SSD + 32GB Optane?
How do you choose what type of storage is right for you?
Storage Short Take #17
Lots of NVMe this time around, and several conferences have made their papers available. As always, links were active at the time of publication. Storage Media and Technology Storage Companies in the News Industry Associations and Standards Podcasts, Webinars and Conferences Synology News Bonus Round
Do key-value SSDs have any applicability to general-use consumer computers?
Clearing up some of the confusion about Key-Value SSDs and how they can be used.
Flash Drives with Fake Capacity
Could your Flash device be lying to you?
Quora Question: Is It Worth Upgrading A SSD From TLC to QLC?
A good Quora question that deserves some attention.
What’s New In NVMe 1.3
A quick-and-dirty summary of some of the major changes released in NVMe 1.3
Storage: HDD and SSD Partitioning and I/O Operations
How hard drives and flash drives handle partitioning and I/O
Quora Answer: How to Choose A Storage Vendor?
An excellent question on how to compare storage solutions from major vendors, versus new startups.
Learning NVMe: A Program of Study
For those people who are looking to find out information about NVMe (NVM Express), but don’t know where to start, this is a course syllabi that can be used as a “program of study.”
A NVMe Bibliography
A bibliography of NVMe educational materials, organized by topic.