The Synology DiskStation DS712+, sold diskless and and populated with hard drives, is a two-bay network-attached storage box that clearly anticipates the future. This business-friendly box can connect to Synology’s five-bay DX510 external expansion unit to accommodate up to seven drives. If you don’t need more than two drives right now but suspect that your [...]

With Intel’s next-gen CPUs arriving late spring/early summer, and Windows 8 coming to new PCs sometime around October, it’s easy to recommend that laptop shoppers hold off on any new purchases until one or both of those are available. Or, is it? We’ve opened up the question for point/counterpoint debate, with Scott taking the position [...]

Haddock Computer Center, a retail sales and service center for Apple products, including computers, iPads and iPods, moved this week to West Des Moines from its long-time location at 801 73rd St. in Windsor Heights. The center is now located at 9350 University Ave. in West Des Moines, between Jethro’s BBQ Jambalaya and Supercuts in [...]

NEW YORK, March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM.PK – News), the company that operates the world’s largest electronic marketplace for OTC-traded equities, announced that Carlisle Goldfields Limited (OTCQX: CGJCF; TSX.V: CGJ), a junior mining and development company, is now trading on the highest tier of the OTC market, OTCQX®.  (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110118/MM31963LOGO [...]

The four-bay, Western Digital Sentinel DX4000 4TB is the only NAS box we’ve tested recently that uses Microsoft‘s Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials for its operating system. All other comers are Linux-based, which turns out to be a big advantage. Despite being a well-conceived piece of hardware, the Sentinel DX4000 doesn’t deliver enough performance or [...]

Sony let the world know back in December that its entire 2011 line of Android smartphones would be receiving an update to Ice Cream Sandwich. At the time, they said we could expect updates to land at the end of March or beginning of April. The company has now taken to its blog to let [...]

Ughhhh! If your PC has ever been infected – or worse, if it’s infected right now – you’re probably groaning. Yes it’s a pain, but the good news is: you can remove viruses yourself, for free. STEP 1:  Back Up Documents, Photos and Videos. Save your important data to an external drive. Be sure to [...]

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — It’s a sign of our times: When disaster strikes, like the BATS trading fiasco last Friday, my thoughts wander from human error to human intent. I do not wander alone. “It’s the first thing that comes to my mind,” says Logan Scott, principal of LS Consulting, who was kind enough to [...]

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Without drives, the Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ v2 is very inexpensive for a well-constructed four-bay NAS box. But add in the price of two 1TB drives, and factor in its poky performance, and the box’s value becomes a less clear proposition. See also: Group test: what’s the best NAS device? The ReadyNAS NV+ v2 has a [...]