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,…
You’ve seen those tiny blue screens on a NAS front panel. Do they earn a slot in your bill of materials, or just look nice? Let’s go plain talk. I’ll walk you through what the LCD/status panel really does, when…
You’ve got disks to wrangle, lanes to feed, and zero time for flaky cabling. This piece turns the messy “NAS chassis + HBA + expander” puzzle into a tight, field-ready checklist. It’s chatty, a bit scrappy, and focused on what…
You want your NAS to hum, not howl. The fastest wins are simple: move air quietly and kill vibration before it reaches the panels. Below is a practical, no-nonsense guide—built around real hardware choices and install tricks—plus a quick table…
You’re picking between an 8-bay and a 12-bay NAS. On paper it’s “four more bays.” In a rack or on your desk, it’s airflow, noise, drive temps, and how fast you can service a failed disk. Let’s walk it, real-world…
You’re building or refreshing a video system. Cameras don’t sleep, storage can’t blink, and downtime is loud. This piece gets blunt and practical: how to pick a NAS chassis for a surveillance VMS so you don’t fight dropped frames, rebuild…