Customers may put orders for the high-speed external repository under the TerraMaster D5 Thunderbolt 3 name, which at present (without including drives) costs 700 USD.

 

The novelty is aimed at professionals, dealing with video and images of high quality, as well as with huge arrays of data. The device allows installing up to five 3.5-inch drives in the form of HDDs or SSDs. The ultimate internal capacity claimed reaches 60 TB (5 × 12 TB). Cooling is ensured by two fans.

 

The Thunderbolt 3 interface (bandwidth: 40 Gbps), based on the USB Type-C port, serves for connecting the repository to the computer. An extra Thunderbolt 3 port provides an opportunity of attaching various devices in a daisy chain. The DisplayPort interface is also present.

 

TerraMaster D5 Thunderbolt 3 supports RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, JBOD arrays formation. The nominated rate of transmission is 1,035 MB/s.

 

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Currently, the situation with the total dominance of NVIDIA in the segment of top-end graphics solutions has developed. AMD is unlikely to present its progressive Vega accelerators shortly. But a series of mid-level video cards based on GPU Polaris has already been developed. Their second generation is presented, so let’s start studying the new products.


Polaris 20 Based Video Cards

The updated line of video cards includes four models: Radeon RX 580, Radeon RX 570, Radeon RX 560 and Radeon RX 550. They are direct successors of similar models of the RX400 series; in particular, the Radeon RX 580/570 replaces the Radeon RX 480/470. So, let’s consider the changes in the new video cards in this review.


The Radeon RX 580 and Radeon RX 570 are based on the Polaris 20 graphics processor which has no major changes with respect to Polaris 10. This is the development of the AMD GCN architecture and its fourth implementation. The GPU counts 36 Compute Unit (CU) computational …

Asustor, a renowned Taiwanese network systems developer, comes to the market with a couple of new NAS devices which supplemented AS 5 series. The AS5008T and the AS5108T feature eight bays (each) for the drives with the maximal capacity of 48 TB. All the drives might be combined into a range of configurations, including JBOD, Single, Hot Spare, RAID 1/5/6/10. The pair is backed by a 3-year’s limited warranty.



Asustor AS 5 models cooperate with ADM 2.3 OS and come with an integrated firewall. They are thought to support Cloud Connect technology as well as power-saving Energy Saver features. Both NAS boast the support for AES-256 encoding algorithm and LooksGood utility (plus its mobile version – AiVideo). The latter provides for the playback of digital TV, record of TV-programs, and playback of videos from NAS into a mobile device.


Asustor AS5108T features the following specifications:


— dimensions: 215.5x293x230 mm;

— CPU: Intel Celeron, clock frequency …