I have not used a NAS in years, instead opting with building my own servers, but they are big, ugly and use up lots of electricity. With a growing number of old hard-drives, I wanted something that was small, lower-powered and cheap enough for me to justify using my old smaller 4TB drives in it….
If you are a data hoarder and ever frequently subreddits such as /r/datahoarder or /r/homelab it seems like the only two drive brands people buy are Western Digital for the reliability, or Seagate because they are cheap. However, there is a third option worth going for, and that is Toshiba. They do the usual drive…
While not the most glamorous or exciting of technology, at Mighty Gadget we love a good NAS. In an era where optical media is becoming increasingly rare, having vast amounts of data storage accessible on your network is becoming increasingly important, and devices like the Synology DiskStation DS411j provide that and a whole lot more….