We usually store our photos, documents, and more on a single hard disk—or, increasingly these days, a solid state drive (SSD)—but there’s always the nagging worry that the disk will fail, taking all ...

Traditional RAID wastes your storage space: Why my 100TB NAS uses Unraid instead ...

RAID is one of the most common terms thrown around in the home lab ecosystem, though there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Despite offering some protection ...

I am leaning toward an atom based solution since it will keep the costs down and use less power. DDR3 is necessary, if it uses SODIMM that is even better cause I have some extra laying around. On ...

First Server: 1TB x 2+1 SATA RAID-1 This will be faster, provide more capacity and will reduce your chance of failure (one less disk). You also get more utility, since you can use the +1 disk in the ...