Today I wanted to look at three different modern Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices – the ASUSTOR FS6812X, The UNIFI UNAS 8, and the Synology’s DS1821+. Naturally, this is not going to be a complete apples to apples comparison. The ASUS NAS I’m testing, for example, uses native solid state NVME hard drives, wile the […]
As many years I’ve worked with Windows, there only a handful of times I’ve had the chance to explore and use the version built specifically for reduced instruction set computers (RISC). Getting my hands on one such device gave me time to look closer. The Windows download site offers the ARM-based iso for download, so […]
The $285.00 CDN (at time of publishing) AirWire wireless network adapter is a bit pricey for the average user. The promise of this device is the ability to use multiple wireless streams to exploit faster than gigabit bandwidth without wires. This uses the new MLO technology from Unifi. With all this bleeding edge I wanted […]
For a NAS device, the UNAS Pro 8 is at perfectly reasonable price-point of $1,145.00 before taxes. The drives are always what’s going to cost the most in this or any NAS. Just like the Cloud Gateway, you’ll have to buy the SSD tray. In this case, it takes two of them for caching, and […]
It just was a matter of time that I’d come back this great show. My first attempt at watching it in 2015 was such a different era for technology. Mr. Robot almost seemed like an answer to the kookiness of The Matrix by plopping the hero into a real-ish world with the technology depicted right […]
At most turns in this book, I was happy to write off this thesis as the musings of a crackpot. Kingsnorth’s foray into trans-related issues and his defense of conspiracies is just stupid. The assertion that progress wants the end of us is unnecessarily extreme. His holding on so much to religion and the idea […]
Previously, I’d used the NEWDERY Portable Power Bank, and it was something of a marvel for its time. It had it’s troubles, however. One of them was the Apple Watch charge point not being magnetic. Because of that, this power bank would be a pain to use in the car and keeping the watch on […]
This topic of truth is something that has been on my mind. Recently, I wrote that trust needs a major innovation. What is clear, however, is that truth and fact are quite different things. Coincidentally, Werner Herzog releases a book titled The Future of Truth, umm, yea. I’m in. Herzog has always seemed like something […]
Coming in the standard tower look that APC popularized, Unifi’s product is white rather than the typical black look. The UPS comes with the battery unplugged and one simply has to open the front panel and connect the battery. Once the UPS is then plugged into the network it can be adopted by your Unifi […]
Ubiquiti Networks (or Unifi) have made a ton of different network gateway devices over the years, from the Dream Machine to the Dream Wall, to the original UCG. These have all made full use of the Unifi Network Controller’s abilities. In the cases where you have no gateway device, the controller is great software, but […]