That’s why you’ll often hear home lab enthusiasts and data-hoarders (including yours truly) mention the importance of extra ...

The four-bay AS-604T NAS server is the first storage product I've reviewed from Asustor -- the storage division of Asus -- and it was quite a pleasant surprise. The server was very fast in my testing, ...

WD's latest four-bay NAS server, the My Cloud EX4, is a lot more than four single-volume My Cloud units put together. It's not the fastest NAS, nor does it include many advanced features, but the WD ...

If you've ever looked into purchasing a NAS device or server, particularly for a small business, you've no doubt come across the term "RAID." RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or ...

In the late 1980s, processing power and memory performance were increasing by more than 40% each year. However, due to mechanical limitations, hard drive performance was not able to keep up. To ...

I'm slowly assembling the components for a new home server. My plan for the system so far is as follows: The plan is to use the two system drives in RAID 0 for redundancy, and then build a RAID 5 ...

RAID technology requires dynamic disks. Hence, if you want to set up RAID 1 on your Windows 11/10 device, you need to convert your disks into dynamic disks. One such advantage of converting basic ...