This diminutive NAS box is designed for 2.5-inch media, including SATA SSDs. It’s packed with media-streaming and other features, and it runs very cool and quiet when populated with SSDs. Small is ...

I’ve written about Synology products before, but unless you own one or are in the market for such a device, I’m betting you might not know what they do. Synology is a company that makes several ...

Forget about external hard drives, today you can get something that will back up your PCs and work as a personal server for less than $250. Walmart is selling the Synology DiskStation DS220 Plus NAS ...

The beefy QNAP TVS-EC880 delivers better performance under heavy workloads, while the elegant Synology DS2015xs shines with useful tools The past few years have seen a meteoric rise in the breadth and ...

Every once in a while, I get some gear in the lab that is put into service in some capacity and just works, generally for quite a long time. The most recent example is the Synology DS509+ NAS that ...

On Topic -- rolled my own NAS using Nas4Free, a fork off of FreeNas. That was simple. I would consider buying one of these types of boxes used though -- but the new price is just too much. I recently ...

It's been a long time since I started using a NAS at home, and until recently, my needs were handled by a succession of Synology devices. The operating system felt like a desktop environment, so the ...