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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 ...

The first thing which stands out relates to brand. Western Digital has more drives on the list than anyone else, with 66 ...

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I'm sporting a Synology 213 NAS for my biz storage. It's a mirrored-disk RAID. I've been swapping out of of the two drives annually so that the 2-year old disk gets replaced with a new 2 TB WD Red.

If you are building a network attached storage system or purchasing one off-the-shelf and need to equip it with storage drives you might be considering SSD vs HDD. What the differences are between ...

But one must live with a NAS for a long time to realize that most NAS failures don’t come from major hardware issues but from ...

Careful where you pour that hot water: on the right is a 12oz coffee cup, while on the left is Synology's latest NAS, the 4-bay Disk Station DS409slim. Squeezing up to four 2.5-inch hard-drives into a ...

As an entry-level NAS, the DS223j has plenty going for it, but Synology needs to accept that buyers want 2.5GbE LAN. Synology releases new NAS infrequently these days, leaving over 2.5 years from when ...

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If you’ve ever tried to store a Final Cut Pro X library on an external hard drive connected to your local network, or via an actual NAS from a company like Synology ...