PC lovers tend to collect a lot of hardware as the years roll by. Instead of leaving it to collect dust, why not repurpose it as a file-slinging server? Several free and open-source operating systems ...

In today's digital world we've all got data, and lots of it. Our libraries are also growing rapidly: where you used to get by setting aside a few bookshelves for your books, CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes, ...

There are few things more unnerving than losing sensitive data. Whether it was by negligence or hardware failure, the sting associated with such a loss can be great. We have done our part at Techgage ...

Being an Editor here at Custom PC Review, I’m constantly in need of lots of mass storage. At CES 2017, I took over 1,000 14-bit RAW images using a Nikon D800 camera which generated files somewhere ...

So you’ve taken my earlier advice and used the free and open-source FreeNAS operating system to convert an old desktop PC into a server, instead of consigning it to the e-waste heap. (If you haven’t, ...

Ever have a server laying around that is not quite old enough to trash but not quite new enough to use as a production machine. Are you dying to move from direct attached storage into something more ...

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So I'm planning on building a Nas soon (sometime between now and Feb (taxes/bonus)) but I want to figure out what software I'm going to be running. Currently I have an old window box with some spare ...

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Following up on my previous review of FreeNAS, I have had some time to play around and investigate further. Unfortunately, due to issues with the current release of VMWare Fusion (bridged networking ...

May 31, 2006 11:13:00 "FreeNAS" to boot from USB memory and change PC to NAS You can easily make extra machines to NAS. All management is possible from the browser, RAID 0 · 1 · 2 is possible, and ...