ITscope market barometer Q1/2023

Flying high: The top per­for­mers of Q1 2023 

We are thril­led to share with you the latest ITscope mar­ket baro­me­ter Q1/2023 that gives a com­pre­hen­si­ve over­view of the top-selling and emer­ging pro­ducts in the IT mar­ket for the first quar­ter of the year. In this edi­ti­on, we del­ve into nine dif­fe­rent cate­go­ries on ITscope and pro­vi­de insightful analysis.

ITscope mar­ket baro­me­ter Q1/2023 as a PDF (Englisch)

The ITscope mar­ket baro­me­ter is a com­pre­hen­si­ve ana­ly­sis con­duc­ted by ITscope GmbH, pro­vi­ding valuable insights into the latest trends and deve­lo­p­ments in the tech industry.

Karlsruhe, 20.04.2023 – With World Backup Day being obser­ved on March 31, we deci­ded to del­ve deeper into the key hard­ware com­pon­ents for back­ups in this mar­ket report. Our atten­ti­on is focu­sed on sto­rage sys­tems, which are essen­ti­al digi­tal data sto­rage solu­ti­ons that play a cru­cial role in ensu­ring data secu­ri­ty and protection.

The sto­rage sys­tems cate­go­ry is usual­ly what you want your sto­rage archi­tec­tu­re to be: sta­ble. The volu­me of digi­tal data gene­ra­ted annu­al­ly is ste­adi­ly incre­asing in the process:The International Data Corporation (IDC) expects an annu­al increase of 25%, and esti­ma­tes that glo­bal data volu­me will grow by about 25% annu­al­ly, rea­ching more than 180 ZB in 2025. Moreover,the com­ple­xi­ty of back­ups is incre­asing, but the hard­ware requi­re­ments in the data pro­tec­tion sec­tion remain about the same. As tech­no­lo­gy advan­ces, fas­ter pro­ces­sors and lar­ger sto­rage capa­ci­ties are expec­ted, but the pri­ma­ry con­cern when choo­sing a sto­rage sys­tem is always secu­ri­ty. It comes as no sur­pri­se that well-established and relia­ble brands like Synology and QNAP domi­na­te the mar­ket as lea­ding manu­fac­tu­r­ers. The most cli­cked sto­rage sys­tem on the ITscope plat­form comes from Synology: the Synology DiskStation DS220+ has held the top posi­ti­on sin­ce the begin­ning of 2022. Relatively new, howe­ver, is the second most popu­lar pro­duct in Q1 2023: The Synology Disk Station DS923+ reli­es on an AMD Ryzen R1600 dual-core processor. 

The cate­go­ry of com­ple­te sys­tems is expe­ri­en­cing a signi­fi­cant shift towards mini-PCs, which are now so powerful that they can com­pe­te with tra­di­tio­nal desk­top com­pu­ters. These com­pact mar­vels can easi­ly sit on your desk and are a cost-effective alter­na­ti­ve to lap­tops. It’s no won­der they’­re beco­ming a popu­lar choice in the mar­ket. The new front-runner in the com­ple­te sys­tems cate­go­ry is the HP Pro Mini 400 G9, i5 2GHz. But Lenovo’s 3^rd gene­ra­ti­on of the popu­lar ThinkCentre. gene­ra­ti­on of the popu­lar ThinkCentre M70qis alre­a­dy on its way up. 

Claiming the top spot as the most popu­lar new pro­duct on ITscope plat­form for 2023 with an impres­si­ve 2,622 clicks so far is the Microsoft Surface Pro 9 for Business, fol­lo­wed by the Apple MacBook Pro, which also made it into the cate­go­ry­’s top 10 straight away. For tho­se see­king the ulti­ma­te per­for­mance in a note­book, the M2-Pro CPU model is sure to impress. However, such power comes at a cost, with a Wholesale sel­ling pri­ce (WSP) of 1,735 € as of 18.04.2023.

Content

Highflyer: Soaring to new heights with IT updates in 2023.
TFTs: Tried-and-tested front-runners
Mobile pho­nes: Weak start for the Samsung Galaxy S23
Tablets: The iPad remains the undis­pu­ted cham­pi­on
Notebooks: Lenovo’s ThinkPad goes through the roof
PC sys­tems: Mini is maxing out
Graphic cards: Strong per­for­mance with Ada-Lovelace GPU
Processors: Intel over­ta­kes AMD
Multifunction Printers: Popular HP Color LaserJet Pro final­ly back
Storage sys­tems: Stability is trump

Highflyer: Soaring to new heights with IT updates in 2023.

ITscope Highflyers are the top pro­ducts that ITscope users access fre­quent­ly within the first six months of their launch on the plat­form. Our quar­ter­ly top 30 list show­ca­ses the most popu­lar new pro­ducts in each category.

The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 for Business is the clear lea­der in the tablet cate­go­ry, with its powerful 12^th gene­ra­ti­on Intel Core pro­ces­sor and 2‑in‑1 design that allows for optio­nal key­board and pen ope­ra­ti­on. While its impro­ve­ments over pre­vious models may not be imme­dia­te­ly visi­ble, the Surface Pro 9’s use of Alder Lake U pro­ces­sors from Intel make it a high-flyer in terms of performance.

Place 2 goes to the Apple MacBook Pro. The M2 Pro vari­ant of the high-performance note­book takes per­for­mance to the next level com­pared to last sum­mer’s models with M2 chips. Although the jump from M1 to M2 Pro may not be as sub­stan­ti­al, the over­all packa­ge is still impres­si­ve and con­vin­cing.. The MacBook Pro impres­ses with strong com­pu­ting power and long bat­tery life. 

With 996 clicks, the Synology Disk Station DS923+ is way ahead in the high-flyer charts. The Storage System reli­es on an AMD Ryzen R1600 as its main pro­ces­sor and has four dri­ve bays, two M.2 slots and two Gigabit net­work ports. The update to its pre­de­ces­sor DS920+ is being recei­ved with gre­at inte­rest. Read more about Synology’s sto­rage sys­tem in the category.

In the race for the most-clicked new gra­phics card, the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Trinity OC has come out on top. In the test from Chip, the maga­zi­ne attests to the RTX 4070 Ti’s good per­for­mance even at 4K reso­lu­ti­ons and reports very quiet ope­ra­ti­on with mode­ra­te ener­gy efficiency. 

The mar­ket for TFT moni­tors in the office envi­ron­ment is gene­ral­ly rather quiet. So it is all the more plea­sing that Iiyama is laun­ching a new model for busi­ness with the ProLite XUB2493HS-B5. Not only is the 24-inch office moni­tor afforda­ble, but it also boasts a pivot func­tion that allows it to be used in por­trait mode. Its adjus­ta­ble stand makes it ide­al for multi-monitor set­ups, and it comes with built-in spea­k­ers, a head­pho­ne jack, and HDMI and DisplayPort connections.

There is also news in the prin­ter sec­tion: Epson makes it onto ITscope’s high fly­er list with the Epson WorkForce Pro WF- C5890DWF  . The mul­ti­func­tion prin­ter is said to replace the WF- 6590DWF in the higher-end seg­ment. This makes it a powerful and fle­xi­ble ink prin­ter for the office. 

In the com­ple­te sys­tems, Apple makes it onto the win­ner’s podi­um with the Mac mini. The mini PC with M2 pro­ces­sor impres­ses with its high working speed, but can­not be upgraded with RAM. In the test by Computerbild, the mid­get the­r­e­fo­re only scored 2.6. Nevertheless, the Mac Mini is well sui­ted for ever­y­day busi­ness use, espe­ci­al­ly sin­ce it ope­ra­tes very quiet­ly and con­su­mes com­pa­ra­tively litt­le power.

See here the most acti­ve 30 new releases with hot-seller poten­ti­al – our highflyers:

pos.	Manufacturer and Product description	Hst-No	Listed sin­ce	clicks
#1	Microsoft Surface Pro 9 for Business	QIA-00004	2022-10-12	2622
# 2	Apple MacBook Pro, 14.2″, M2 Pro	MPHE3D/A	2023-01-18	1253
# 3	Synology Disk Station DS923+	DS923+	2022-10-19	996
# 4	ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Trinity OC	ZT-D40710J-10P	2023-01-06	895
# 5	Iiyama ProLite XUB2493HS-B5	XUB2493HS-B5	2022-11-22	822
# 6	Epson WorkForce Pro WF- C5890DWF	C11CK23401	2022-10-01	652
# 7	Apple TV 4K (Wi-Fi), MN873FD/A	MN873FD/A	2022-10-19	629
# 8	Apple Mac mini, M2, 8GB, 256GB	MMFJ3D/A	2023-01-18	602
# 9	Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, 512GB	SM-S918BZKHEUB	2023-01-24	480
# 10	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D	100–100000908WOF	2023-02-17	476
# 11	Kyocera ECOSYS PA4500X	110C0Y3NL0	2022-12-20	452
# 12	Be Quiet! CPH-6610, 12VHPWR	BC072	2022-10-14	420
# 13	Apple HomePod (2nd generation)	MQJ73D/A	2023-01-19	385
# 14	Sony PlayStation 5, 825GB, Digital Edition	CFI-1216B	2022-12-13	324
# 15	Gigabyte B760M DS3H DDR4	B760M DS3H DDR4	2022-12-09	314
# 16	BARCO ClickShare C‑10	R9861611EUB1	2022-09-30	297
# 17	Fractal Design North, Midi-Tower	FD-C-NOR1C-01	2022-11-04	260
# 18	Microsoft CSP Cloud Microsoft SQL Server Standard 2022	DG7GMGF0M80J-0002	2023-01-03	237
# 19	Gigaset Pro Fusion FX800W Pro Titanium Bundle	L36853-H3111-R101	2022-11-18	225
# 20	Be Quiet! Pure Power 12 M 850W	BN344	2023-01-25	198
# 21	Epson XL, black	C13T11D140	2022-10-01	189
# 22	WowWee, Fingerlings Baby Dragon Tara	3581	2022-12-10	158
# 23	HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen11	P55080-B21	2022-11-22	152
# 24	Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX XT	CW-9060070-WW	2023-01-15	126
# 25	Intel Next Unit of Computing 12 Pro Kit, i3 1220P	RNUC12WSHI30002	2022-11-24	113
# 26	Kyocera TK 3400, 1T0C0Y0NL0	1T0C0Y0NL0	2022-12-20	111
# 27	Origin Storage 32GB, DDR4 3200	M393A4K40EB3-CWE	2023-02-10	110
# 28	Arctic MX‑6, ACTCP00080A	ACTCP00080A	2022-10-06	75
# 29	Shelly Pro 3EM, ALL_SHELLY_PRO_3EM	ALL_SHELLY_PRO_3EM	2023-01-10	53
# 30	Xiaomi ROB Xiaomi Roborock S8 Sonic, S802-00	S802-00	2023-03-18	10

 

TFTs: Tried-and-tested front-runners 

For the past two years, the Dell P2422H has remain­ed the unri­va­led favo­ri­te moni­tor of ITscope users. The TFT cate­go­ry does not pre­sent any sho­cking sur­pri­ses, as the top moni­tors with 24 and 27 inch screen dia­go­nals from Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, and HP con­ti­nue to domi­na­te the mar­ket. Making a bold ent­rance at num­ber 22 is the Iiyama ProLite XUB2493HS-B5, our stand­out TFT per­for­mer of the quar­ter. Priced at a Wholesale Selling Price (WSP) of €124.37 (as of 30/03/2023), this moni­tor offers an afforda­ble solu­ti­on to out­fit­ting office work­sta­tions with mul­ti­ple screens. Its impres­si­ve fea­tures and sleek design make it a wel­co­med addi­ti­on to any workspace.

Mobile phones: Weak start for the Samsung Galaxy S23

Dominating the smart­phone cate­go­ry in Q1 2023 with 2,342 clicks, the Apple iPhone 14 Pro with 256 GB of sto­rage out­shi­nes all its com­pe­ti­tors, inclu­ding its own. Not sur­pri­sin­gly, the Californian manu­fac­tu­rer also takes the second and third spots with the iPhone 13, and the com­pact iPhone SE.

Rumour has it that no new SE model will be released until 2025, which is likely to keep demand for the 3^rd gene­ra­ti­on constant. 

The brand new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is ran­ked 17^th, while the slight­ly smal­ler ver­si­on, the Samsung Galaxy S23, is ran­ked 26^th. Despite recei­ving over­whel­mingly posi­ti­ve feed­back, the Samsung Galaxy S23’s ran­king is not very favorable. Giga even wri­tes, “Currently, the­re is hard­ly an Android smart­phone that offers a bet­ter over­all packa­ge.” The S23 boasts a long bat­tery life, impres­si­ve per­for­mance, high-quality dis­play, and excel­lent came­ra, but the big­gest draw­back is its steep pri­ce tag. With a Wholesale sel­ling pri­ce (WSP) of €689 for the S23 and €1047.50 for the S23 Ultra (as of 17.04.2023), it puts the Ultra model on par with the iPhone 14 Pro, which is available for €1039. Despite its draw­backs, the S23 and S23 Ultra still offer remar­kab­le fea­tures and should not be over­loo­ked by con­su­mers see­king a top-of-the-line Android smart­phone. Most other Android smart­phones are signi­fi­cant­ly che­a­per, such as the Google Pixel 7 Pro, (€629 WSP).

With 431 clicks, the Google Pixel 7 Pro clim­bs from 33^rd to 24^th place in the top list. The Google smart­phone con­vin­ces with strong gra­phics per­for­mance, up-to-date soft­ware and AI fea­tures from Google. It also has a ver­sa­ti­le came­ra sys­tem and a bright OLED display.

Tablets: The iPad remains the undisputed champion

With a stag­ge­ring 11,754 clicks in the first quar­ter of 2023, the Apple iPad Wi-Fi, 10.2″ con­ti­nues to reign supre­me as the most popu­lar tablet PC on the ITscope plat­form, recei­ving five times more views than the second-placed tablet. Its popu­la­ri­ty in the mar­ket is a tes­ta­ment to its supe­ri­or per­for­mance and fea­tures, making it the go-to choice for many consumers.

The new Microsoft Surface Pro 9 for Business made it to second place, our top high­fly­er of the month. The powerful and ver­sa­ti­le tablet is desi­gned spe­ci­fi­cal­ly for busi­ness use. It fea­tures a powerful 12^th gene­ra­ti­on Intel Core pro­ces­sor. The 12.3‑inch dis­play offers high reso­lu­ti­on and can be pre­cis­e­ly con­trol­led with the Surface Pen. The 2‑in‑1 tablet also has a varie­ty of ports, inclu­ding USB‑C and USB‑A, making con­nec­ti­vi­ty easy. 

However, Microsoft’s pre­vious ver­si­on, the Microsoft Surface Pro 8 also holds its own in the top list: the ver­si­on with 16 GB of RAM and Windows 11 Pro even clim­bs from 38^th to 4^th place. Compared to the Surface Pro 9, the Pro 8 has a slight­ly wea­k­er 11^th-gene­ra­ti­on Intel CPU. Less in demand in 2023 is the Microsoft Surface Pro 8 with Windows 10, which was second in the pre­vious quar­ter and now ranks only 29^th. So the latest Windows ver­si­on seems to be making inroads in the busi­ness sec­tion now on tablets. 

Notebooks: Lenovo's ThinkPad goes through the roof

The Lenovo ThinkPad L15 Gen 3 21C3 remains in first place with an impres­si­ve 7. 151 clicks in first place in the note­book cate­go­ry, well ahead of the HP ProBook 450 G9 in second place, which recor­ded 2,055 clicks. The ThinkPad fea­tures a powerful Intel Core i5 pro­ces­sor run­ning at 4.4 GHz, 16 GB of RAM around 512 GB of storage.

With the new MacBook Pro, Apple makes it into the top 10 note­books right away. This makes it one of the high-flyers in the first quar­ter of 2023. Stiftung Warentest awards the high-performance note­book top marks under the title: “Top per­for­mance for a lot of money”. The MacBook Pro is prai­sed for its powerful M2 Pro pro­ces­sor with twel­ve cores and 16 GB of RAM, the dis­play, the bat­tery and the versatility.

The HP ProBook 455 G9 note­book made a mete­o­ric rise, espe­ci­al­ly in the last week of March. The stock of the note­book drop­ped dra­sti­cal­ly at the end of March, which dro­ve up the num­ber of clicks on ITscope: becau­se num­e­rous dis­tri­bu­tors no lon­ger had the pro­duct in stock, ITscope cus­to­mers rese­ar­ched alter­na­ti­ve sources of sup­p­ly on the plat­form – and also found what they were loo­king for. The HP ProBook 455, in con­trast to the HP ProBook 450 G9, has an AMD CPU. 

By the end of March, the HP ProBook 455 G9 notebook was sold out at numerous merchants, as reflected in the product click history.

PC systems: Mini is maxing out

After a long reign as the top con­ten­der in the com­ple­te sys­tems cate­go­ry, the Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q 11DT is bid­ding fare­well as it pha­ses out. But fear not, as a new front-runner has emer­ged to take its place – the for­mer runner-up, the HP Pro Mini 400 G9, i5 2GHz with 8 GB RAM, now reig­ns supre­me. Its slight­ly pri­cier coun­ter­part, with 16GB of RAM and SSD 512, fol­lows clo­se­ly in third place.

Scarcely still in stock: the Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q 11DT.

But Lenovo’s 3^rd gene­ra­ti­on ThinkCentre M70q is alre­a­dy on the way up. Thanks to the 12^th gene­ra­ti­on Intel Core pro­ces­sors, the mini PC offers high per­for­mance in the smal­lest space. It can be easi­ly con­fi­gu­red, expan­ded and is eco­no­mic­al in ener­gy con­sump­ti­on. In the first quar­ter of 2023, with 2,316 clicks, it is nevert­hel­ess only good enough for second place in the cate­go­ry. The next lar­gest ver­si­on, the Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q Gen 3 with 16 GB RAM and SSD 512, clim­bs from 27^th to 5^th place. Equipped with a smal­ler pro­ces­sor is the 2^nd gene­ra­ti­on of the Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q, which has been lis­ted sin­ce November 2022. The com­ple­te sys­tem with Core i5 11400T and 1.3 GHz enters the cate­go­ry in 11^th place. 

It’s striking: The trend in the office is towards com­pact PCs in mini for­mat that can be sto­wed away prac­ti­cal­ly behind the moni­tor or even – like the Lenovo’s ThinkCentre M70q – atta­ched to the back of the moni­tor with a VESA moun­ting kit. Manufacturers defi­ne the for­mat of their mini PCs dif­fer­ent­ly: on the mar­ket the­re are both flat, hori­zon­tal models such as the HP Pro Mini (width: 17.7 cm x depth: 17x5cm x height: 3.42 cm) or the squa­re Apple Mac mini (width: 19.7 cm, depth: 19.7 cm, height: 3.58 cm), as well as slim ver­ti­cal models such as the Dell Optiplex 3000 (width: 3.6 cm, depth: 17.8 cm, height: 18.2 cm) or the Fujitsu ESPRIMO. The first clas­sic tower PC in the cate­go­ry is found in 10^th place. The Lenovo ThinkStation P360 belongs to the high-performance seg­ment with Intel’s Core i9 12900K. Its advan­ta­ge over the mini PCs: many up-to-date ports and lega­cy inter­faces. 

Not in the top 10, but still worth not­ing, is the Fujitsu ESPRIMO G6012, which still mana­ged 472 clicks in the first quar­ter. The mini-PC is just 3.6 cm thin, but has no opti­cal dri­ve. The entry-level model has a main­board with an Intel B660 chip­set installed.

Graphic cards: Strong performance with Ada-Lovelace GPU

Processors: Intel overtakes AMD

It was time for a chan­ge on the pro­ces­sor front: the Intel Core i7 13700K has taken the lead in the CPU cate­go­ry. The 13700K has 16 cores, eight each of P‑cores and E‑cores. PC Games Hardware recom­mends the i7 espe­ci­al­ly for con­tent crea­tors and deman­ding gamers. Runner-up is the Intel Core i9 13900K, the top model from the Alder-Lake ran­ge. The No. 1 model from the pre­vious quar­ter, the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, recor­ded only half as many clicks as in Q4 2022, landing it in third place in the cate­go­ry. Despite having a few years under its belt, the AMD pro­ces­sor remains exci­ting for all AM4 plat­form systems. 

In the first quar­ter of 2023, inte­rest in pro­ces­sors on the ITscope plat­form has decli­ned over­all. Nevertheless, click num­bers for CPUs of the new chip gene­ra­ti­ons remain rela­tively high, such as for the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, which regis­ters 610 clicks. AMD’s CPU is one of the top pro­ces­sors on the mar­ket with its 16 cores, 32 threads and a high clock speed. 

With the i5 pro­ces­sors Intel Core i5 13400F and Core i5 13500, which have been lis­ted sin­ce January, Intel is laun­ching a new midd­le class. The two CPUs make it to 25^th and 30^th place in the cate­go­ry, impres­sing with a good price-performance ratio and fol­lo­wing on from their popu­lar pre­de­ces­sors, the Core i5 12400F and Core i5 12500. Compared to the­se models, the core clock speed has increased by 200 megahertz.

The new Intel Core i9 13900KS has a com­ple­te­ly dif­fe­rent level of per­for­mance, but also a cor­re­spon­ding pri­ce. It is Intel’s first pro­ces­sor with a clock speed of 6 GHz ex works. In return, howe­ver, Intel is char­ging a hef­ty pri­ce: 646.30 € is the avera­ge Wholesale sel­ling pri­ce on 03.04.2023. “The pro­ces­sor (…) does­n’t offer much more than this psy­cho­lo­gi­cal mile­stone,” is ComputerBase’s ver­dict on the Special Edition CPU. Nonetheless, the pro­ces­sor mana­ges to enter the cate­go­ry at num­ber 29.

Multifunction Printers: Popular HP Color LaserJet Pro finally available again

It’s back: the HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M479fdw has been vir­tual­ly unavailable sin­ce September 2020. On dru​cker​chan​nel​.de users repor­ted ram­pant street pri­ces and fake avai­la­bi­li­ty during this time. The high­ly sought-after HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M479fdw has final­ly retur­ned to the mar­ket, and its popu­la­ri­ty has pro­pel­led it to the top spot in the cate­go­ry with an impres­si­ve 2,673 clicks. This mul­ti­func­tion colour laser prin­ter is a relia­ble work­hor­se for any office, capa­ble of chur­ning out up to 27 pages per minute.

Since the beginning of 2023, stock on the HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M479fdw has been increasing again.

HP’s black-and-white LaserJet Pro MFP M428fdw, which was the top per­for­mer in the pre­vious quar­ter, slip­ped in the top list. With only 676 clicks (In Q4 2022, it was 2,673), it ranks only 15^th. 

A new pro­duct is only in 25^th place in the prin­ters and mul­ti­func­tion devices cate­go­ry, the Epson WorkForce Pro WF-C5890DWF, which also made it into our Highflyers of the Quarter. The office inkjet prin­ter can scan, fax and hand­le over 1,800 sheets thanks to fle­xi­ble paper manage­ment. Druckerchannel comes up with a avera­ge pri­ce per page of 1.7 to 8.3 cents for the new busi­ness inkjet. 

Inkjet prin­ters have gai­ned popu­la­ri­ty due to their lower ener­gy con­sump­ti­on during ope­ra­ti­on and the redu­ced need for regu­lar con­su­ma­bles repla­ce­ment com­pared to laser prin­ters. Epson recent­ly announ­ced that it will no lon­ger pro­du­ce laser prin­ters from 2026 onwards, ins­tead focu­sing on the deve­lo­p­ment of inkjet prin­ters. This move high­lights the gro­wing need for busi­nesses to adopt eco-friendly prac­ti­ces and switch to more sus­tainable prin­ting options.

Storage systems: Stability is key

Although the need for inno­va­ti­ve sto­rage sys­tems in data pro­tec­tion remains con­stant, the­re are still note­wor­t­hy deve­lo­p­ments to explo­re in this quar­ter’s mar­ket baro­me­ter. It is time­ly to dis­cuss the­se advance­ments, espe­ci­al­ly as World Backup Day on March 31^st high­lights the cri­ti­cal role of data back­up in our digi­tal age.

By far the most cli­cked sto­rage sys­tem on the plat­form, with 1. 522 clicks, the Synology DiskStation DS220+, which has held on to the top spot sin­ce ear­ly 2022. The com­pact NAS ser­ver offers two bays for hard dri­ves and can hold a total of up to 32 tera­bytes, accor­ding to 1WorldSync. In the test by Computerbild, the net­work hard dri­ve recei­ves the top gra­de 1.4 and scores in all test categories. 

Place 2, on the other hand, is a newer pro­duct from Synology: the Disk Station DS923+ has only been lis­ted sin­ce October 2022 and is also a NAS ser­ver, but with four bays. It is a suc­ces­sor to the popu­lar DS920+, but unli­ke many other ser­vers, it has an AMD Ryzen R1600 dual-core pro­ces­sor. The DS920+ can be upgraded using NVMe SSDs and has four bays. For tho­se who only need two bays, the Synology Disk Station DS723+ is suf­fi­ci­ent, which has the same tech­no­lo­gy built in and makes it to sixth place in the cate­go­ry. Since the end of 2020, the Taipei-based com­pa­ny has regu­lar­ly fea­tured NAS ser­vers with AMD Ryzen pro­ces­sors in its assort­ment, which tar­ge­ting home users and small busi­nesses – pio­nee­red by the DS1621+, which con­vin­ced with strong per­for­mance. 

QNAP only has three pro­ducts in the top 15 of the cate­go­ry in Q1 2023.The QNAP TR-004 hard dri­ve array (#3) and the QNAP TS-231K NAS ser­ver (#5) offer afforda­ble sto­rage upgrades for NAS with two and four bays respec­tively. Those who alre­a­dy use QNAP ser­vers can also test the beta ver­si­on of the NAS ope­ra­ting sys­tem for QTS 5.1.0, which pro­mi­ses inno­va­tions and impro­ve­ments. The sto­rage sys­tems from the Taiwanese manu­fac­tu­rer QNAP have always been regard­ed ashigh-performance pro­fes­sio­nal models that are also sui­ta­ble for tin­ke­rers with a hands-on men­ta­li­ty. Synology has car­ved a niche in the mid-range seg­ment, thanks to its user-friendly inter­face, and the click figu­res on ITscope indi­ca­te that usa­bi­li­ty is a cru­cial fac­tor for busi­nesses. As a result, Synology has gar­ne­red more inte­rest than QNAP in recent years. While QNAP has always been known for its high-performance pro­fes­sio­nal models, Synology’s beginner-friendly approach has made it a popu­lar choice for small busi­nesses and home users alike.

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