Boston’s latest storage server delivers a huge capacity at a low price. In this exclusive review we find out what else the Boston Igloo 64 T-Stor has in store for you. The system is an all-Supermicro affair and its new SC847 chassis sees some lateral thinking to accommodate the extra bays. The motherboard has been shifted onto an upper platform in the top half of the chassis allowing the 2U of space underneath to be used as an extra storage bay.

There’s a generous storage capacity for the price as this 2U chassis has all twelve hot-swap bays populated. For the OS, Boston has used a pair of high performance Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 SAS drives configured as a mirror, whilst for general storage duties you have 10 1TB Barracuda 7.2K SAS drives in a RAID-6 array.

Data Robotics has added more products to its Drobo storage lineup. With one aimed at the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market and the other at professional and home users the two products – DroboElite and Drobo S respectively – bring the family of storage devices up to four.

Dell’s latest PowerVault NX3000 brings together a nifty combo of PowerEdge server and Microsoft’s Windows Storage Server 2008. It looks good value and in this review we see what else it delivers. The hardware for the NX3000 comes courtesy of a PowerEdge R710, which impressed us enough when we reviewed it for it to get a coveted IT PRO Recommended award. Dell offers the NX3000 in three configurations focusing on value, capacity or performance.

Small businesses looking for a classy network storage solution should put the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition at the top of their shopping list. It offers plenty of business related features teamed up with a massive capacity and is currently the fastest desktop NAS appliance on the planet.

Qnap’s NAS appliance has Intel’s dual-core Atom processor at its heart. This eight-bay desktop box is packed with features and in this review we see whether it delivers in the speed stakes as well.

Despite abundance of features, the DS209+ remained very quiet in use. It’s not totally silent but it’s one of the quietest NAS devices we’ve seen. It uses only 14W in standby and 31W when active, but you can schedule start up and shutdown times if you’re determined to save even more on your energy bills.

A new SSD storage system has been released by Texas Memory Systems which claims to supply five million IOPS.

Thecus N4200 Zero Crash aims to be the most reliable small and medium-sized business (SMB) NAS appliance on the market. In this review we see whether it lives up to its claims.