How-To Geek on MSN

Why I stopped recommending NAS drives to normal people

Using “cold storage”—drives that aren’t powered on regularly—is one of the safest ways to store data (yes, even safer than a ...
XDA Developers on MSN

5 lies I told myself about my NAS (and the hard lessons I learned)

But one must live with a NAS for a long time to realize that most NAS failures don’t come from major hardware issues but from ...
Computerworld

Using NAS to simplify backups

To all companies, data is a vital resource for business operations. Protecting data from corruption, user error, hardware failure, theft or site disaster is widely recognized to be a critical ...
Ars Technica

ECC memory for backup/NAS required?

ECC RAM is a convenience in the same way having checksums of data, or using a redundant form of RAID when you have a 3-2-1 backup strategy: it warns you if the RAM is going bad (i.e. bit flips being ...