Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Part of the apprehension I see when people mention this stuff is that the acronym itself, NAS, immediately makes the technology sound a lot more complicated than it really is. NAS stands for ...

For a few years now, I’ve been wanting to move more of my data out of the cloud and onto my own local storage. I needed a better solution for local storage for this effort because my old system ...

The Synology DiskStation DS224+ is the successor to one of the more popular NAS enclosures from the company, rocking an Intel processor, upgradable RAM, and an excellent OS. 1x 2.5GbE, 2x USB-A 3.2 ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

Reading about NAS drives, I was led to believe that the perfect home server setup had to be complicated. After all, the more the lights, cables, and complexity, the more nerd points you get. I'm ...

Intended for home-office and small-office data sharing, surveillance center management, and data backups, the Synology DiskStation DS425+ is a four-bay network-attached storage (NAS) device that ...

Port aggregation can combine the speed of multiple Ethernet connections. Two eSATA ports enable optional expansion units that can triple the DiskStation's capacity. Synology's DSM Control Panel and ...