I may have a fairly reliable home lab now, but my early tinkering days were fraught with beginner mistakes. While it’s a bit ...

I'm currently looking to re-haul my home network, but a large part of the purchase will be a switch in my network storage. Currently, I have a WD MyBook World Edition 2 with two WD Green terabyte ...

Take all-SSD NAS devices, for example. Unlike conventional HDD-only servers, all-flash rigs tend to rely solely on SSDs – ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

There is a very interesting article in the 2/11/2010 issue of Electronic Design that reviews a number of NAS (Network Attached Storage) products. Although the focus is more on the electronic aspects ...

If you’ve got important data on your home computer, backing it up is essential. These four home NAS servers can handle that without breaking your budget. The good: The WD My Cloud EX2 is speedy, easy ...

When Thecus asked me to take a look at their new N4200 small office NAS, I wasted no time agreeing to get the unit in for review. I had seen the press release and the email announcements and upon ...

What is FreeNAS you say? Put simply, it's is an operating system based on FreeBSD that brings with it a snazzy web interface for management, and all the protocols you need to share files between ...

Ryzen 5 3600 CPU (could wait for Zen 3 but I don't think I'm CPU bound in this workload and this is substantially cheaper than the launch price for the 5600) cheapo fanless GPU (I expect to run this ...