QNAP’s Home Theater-Ready TS-251+ NAS
Most people don’t measure their data in megabytes anymore, and even gigabytes can be a small number for the huge amounts of data that can add up quickly via photos and videos. While streaming music...
View ArticleIndependence And Data Mobility: G-Tech’s G-DRIVE mobile USB
This holiday weekend, take a moment and do an inventory of your data. A couple of hours and a careful look through your computers and devices should help you figure out just how much you have, where...
View ArticleWD My Passport Wireless Pro: Plex In Your Pocket
For many technical people, combining wireless technology and external hard drives seems like an odd idea. Wireless connections are slower and less secure, and these sorts of storage devices are bound...
View ArticleLook Deeply Into The WD My Cloud Mirror
Data storage solutions are probably one of the least sexy products you can look into. After all, the photos and the cameras, the music and the movies- that’s the hot stuff. But none of the media...
View ArticlePromise Apollo NAS: Wired, Cloud-Friendly Local Storage
We’re getting closer to a time when we can treat data storage as an on-demand, essentially infinite service, thanks to the rapid growth of cloud providers (and faster, broader internet connections)....
View ArticleQNAP TS-251A NAS: A Fully-Featured Media Companion
Early in the summer, we checked out one of the best network-attached storage devices that we’ve tested. But now that the holidays are approaching, the inevitable march of technology has led to the...
View ArticleDrobo 5C: The Latest, Greatest Generation
Don’t call it a NAS. Today’s piece of gear looks and feels like a network-attached storage device, and we’ve seen many over the years- but looks can be deceiving. If you only need to store a whole lot...
View ArticleThe Singularly Impressive Seagate innov8 Hard Drive
The philosophy of minimalism has greatly influenced the tech world and, certainly, Apple has made their corporate fortunes at least partially by supplying simpler, more compact, smaller versions with...
View ArticleMy Cloud Home: Storage Made (Too?) Simple
It’s a whole new world of hard drives- today’s doesn’t even offer a traditional power button, doesn’t connect to your computer at all, but isn’t really a true network-attached storage system either....
View ArticleDrobo 5N2: Solid, Proprietary Network-Attached Storage
Years ago, in the dark ages of computing when a cloud was simply the big white thing in the sky, a terabyte of data was an unimaginable amount. And managing that amount of information locally was a...
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