Simple guide to repurpose old MacBooks into a quiet server for backups and streaming, with NAS, Plex setup, remote access, ...

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 ...

RAID is one of the most common terms thrown around in the home lab ecosystem, though there’s a lot more to it than meets the ...

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 ...

In the Proxmox shell, type "cd /etc/pve/lxc" and type "ls". You should see a file called "101.conf". If you type "nano ...

I can't stress enough how important it is to have backups of your data. If you have a single computer at home, getting one of these great external drives will get the job done. But if you have ...

I’ve recently been testing the brand new Synology DS-216+ NAS ($299), a network-attached-storage product meant for consumers. Although Synology products include a variety of features, I will be ...

Windows Home Servers are great. Really, they are. I have been running a box that I built myself out of an old AMD Athlon XP 1900+ for almost a year and half now with zero complaints. It seems a guy on ...

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 ...

We're not certain what kind of home user needs a NAS solution this hardcore, but that's what Norco's targeting with the DS-520, a hot-swappable five-bay SATA II NAS that's actually a Celeron-M ...

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 ...