NAS airflow tests” are cosplay: a quick boot, a glance at CPU temps, and a prayer. Here’s the pre-deploy method I trust—instrumented, repeatable, and harsh enough to flush out drive-bay hot spots before they become outages.
If you’ve ever stuffed 8, 12, or 16 hard drives into one box, you know the sound. It starts as a low hum, then turns into a buzz, and next thing you know your desk feels like it’s lightly vibrating.…
If you’ve ever bought a NAS case, filled it up, and then thought, “…so now what?” — yeah, you’re not alone. Capacity planning isn’t just “how many TB.” It’s drive bays, failure tolerance, rebuild window, and your growth plan. Pick…
If you’re building a white-label NAS, you’re not “just picking a box.” You’re designing a product that has to survive shipping, run cool in a dusty closet, and not blow up your support queue with RMAs. And yeah, you can…
If you’re building video surveillance storage, don’t treat the NAS case like “just a metal box.” In a real NVR setup, the case decides how many drives you can run, how cool they stay, how fast you can swap a…
You’re not picking a NAS case just because it looks nice in the rack.You’re trying to keep backups safe, keep RTO under control, and not blow the storage budget every quarter. Let’s walk through how NAS boxes and cases fit…
Packing a NAS with 8, 12, 24 hard drives looks cool on paper.In real life, if you don’t handle heat right, it turns into a slow-motion outage. This piece walks you through how to keep those high-density HDD arrays safe,…