A commercial NAS is convenient, but building your own gets you better performance.

Ask any tinkerer about their preferred use cases for Network-Attached Storage rigs, and most would mention archiving old data, backing up essential files, sharing documents between local systems, or ...

The F4-425 Pro N305 doesn't need the AI framing to justify its price. It's a well-built, genuinely upgradable four-bay NAS ...

Plex remains one of the best ways to organise and stream your personal media collection, but not every NAS is built to handle it well. While basic file storage is relatively undemanding, Plex can ...

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup, and earlier in his ...

Most smartphone owners use the online storage (also known as cloud storage) services of Apple or Google for backing up their photos and accessing them from anywhere. Online services like Microsoft ...

With everything moving to a subscription model and increasing cloud dependence, we are living in the era of the forever tax. Between Spotify, Netflix, and cloud storage, we pay for music, movies, and ...

Two hip-hop icons deliver a heartwarming collaboration on Light-Years, the final installment in Mass Appeal's “Legend Has It…” series Yet the overriding feeling of Light-Years is of two elder ...

Billboard ranks every song off Nas & DJ Premier's highly anticipated collab album 'Light-Years' By Angel Diaz Those of us old enough to be alive in 1994 when Illmatic dropped have been waiting for Nas ...

Any objective rap fan of a certain age approaches legacy albums like Nas and DJ Premier’s Light-Years with learned skepticism. For 30-odd years, rap was exclusively a young person’s game, defined by ...

There was a time when Network Attached Storage (NAS) was almost exclusively hardware that small businesses used, often to provide straightforward file serving without the overheads and knowledge ...

Maker, meme-r, and unabashed geek, Joe has been writing about technology since starting his career in 2018 at KnowTechie. He's covered everything from Apple to apps and crowdfunding and loves getting ...