I am buying a disk for my home-made NAS server. I will not access my server very often so I am planning to spin down (put disk to sleep) when not in use. I was thinking about WD Red or Seagate ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Nearly a year ago, I reviewed the Synology DiskStation DS212 and at the time I wasn’t very familiar with just how far NAS units have come these days in terms of software and features. Unlike NAS units ...

Now I'm wondering if I should replace the disk anyway (I have a spare one available), but as the disk is still working I would probably not be able to get an exchange under warranty for one bad sector ...

Synology announces version 5.0 beta of its DiskStation Manager operating system that powers all of its NAS devices at CES 2014. The new version adds a slew of new features and improvement to existing ...