Don't use a surveillance drive in your NAS—it's an easy way to lose your data ...

RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

How valuable is your data? If your storage drive crashed, would it ruin your day? Your week? Your entire career? Only you can answer those questions for yourself and your organization. But I'll tell ...

Solid state drives are increasingly common among consumers PCs, with many new devices shipping with SSDs. The drives are far more expensive than mechanical hard drives, but offer superior read and ...

As with any purchasing decision, there is always the question of whether or not to make the jump to the next level of performance. The advent of a new class of consumer HDDs geared for NAS usage has ...

The Promise Pegasus2 R2+ is a versatile desktop-class external hard drive for both Macs and PCs, with a built-in two-bay RAID array. It features Thunderbolt 2 technology and USB 3.0, so you have some ...

We have covered plenty of NAS HDDs here at TweakTown, and the reason is simple: more and more users are purchasing NAS units every day. The expansion of NAS capabilities allows them to serve a much ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Backing up your data is like taking out the trash or ...

Tuning Raid performance has the air of a black art to storage administrators, with the perception that it can do more harm than good. Most consider the job done once the Raid level is selected. But, ...

I've got a RAID-6 array with ten Seagate 2TB NAS drives here. One of the drives started throwing medium errors after a reboot last night, so I'm going to replace it. I can't find the Seagate 2TB NAS ...