James writes books, articles and jokes about technology from his Dallas-area home office. He also consults for those who don’t read his books and articles. Most organizations, whether small bureaus or ...

I am buying a disk for my home-made NAS server. I will not access my server very often so I am planning to spin down (put disk to sleep) when not in use. I was thinking about WD Red or Seagate ...

But the real upgrades that gave my NAS a solid lease of life had nothing to do with capacity. They were about reliability, ...

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

This post brought to you because my current setup needs a bit more space in the near-ish future and I wanted to sanity check my thought process. I've cobbled together my current set up from things on ...

Just as you wouldn’t use a low-end graphics card for high-end usage, you shouldn’t use the wrong hard disk drive in your storage system either. There is a reason for every product and you should ...

In the world of network attached storage, there is a fast growing list of participants. Of the competing companies, there has really only been one that has the BYOD (Bring Your Own Disk) NAS market ...

We’ve already had the pleasure of a single drive review of Seagate’s Enterprise NAS 6TB HDDs and today it has become time for the RAID review. Thecus provided me with five of these drives, but I’ll ...