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Terramaster f2-425 Review!
A little two bay network storage box which offers great performance and plenty of expansion potential. This system is on sale for a great price, but I have to wonder if NOW is the right time to buy one? Continue reading “Is NOW the Right Time to Buy a NAS? Terramaster F2-425 Review!”
The UGREEN DH4300 Plus is IN the GadgetLab!
UGREEN is sponsoring this video to chat about network storage, backing up your important data, and making your own cloud!
Continue reading “It’s SO Easy to Make Your Own PRIVATE Cloud! UGREEN NAS DH4300 Plus!”
UnifyDrive UT2 Review! This one is kinda crazy. We joke about “Swiss Army Knife” gadgets, but this one really is trying to do A LOT.
But does it do all those things well?
Portable storage, mobile media backups, dual slot m.2 drive RAID, portable WiFi, and a mini computer ALL IN ONE? Whew…
We gotta dig a bit deeper… Continue reading “UnifyDrive UT2: A Portable NAS that Does it All?”
A small SSD focused on streamlining your backups! It’s an easy way to automate file transfers and backups from your phone and laptop.A year after the BeeDrive launched, has the experience improved? Let’s take a look!
BeeDrive on Amazon https://amzn.to/4d2kzEr Continue reading “Synology BeeDrive One Year Later: Still One Security Issue…”
There’s a right way to do something, but sometimes it’s fun to “slum it” with the LAZIEST way to do something. I have a problem. My NAS doesn’t support hardware transcoding, and I can’t use my NAS for work while someone else is streaming Plex remotely.
Is there a way I can “upgrade” my NAS without changing anything on my network or replacing my NAS enclosure?
Of course there is!
Let’s fix this problem the “lazy” way!
Continue reading “The LAZIEST (maybe DUMBEST) Upgrade for my NAS! Let’s Fix My Plex!”
QNAP TS-233 NAS review! Build your own cloud!
Backing up a home office or a family of computers and phones is easy! Two drives to protect data, high speed connections, powerful ARM SOC, and great media capabilities!
Setting up this new two-bay box, let’s check out what it can do! Continue reading “QNAP TS-233 Two Bay Home NAS: Build Your Own Cloud!”
It’s a scary thought. We collect TERABYTES of data. Memories, photos, videos, documents. Digital content is really fragile. Investing in multiple drives should deliver some peace of mind. Unfortunately, I’ve had some frustrating experiences with Western Digital enclosures. I finally have a new NAS to upgrade! Here’s my continuing misadventures in finding the right backup solution…
Continue reading “What to do with this Western Digital NAS? My continuing misadventures…”
The Western Digital My Cloud EX4 network attached storage is the single worst technology purchase I’ve ever made. While I figure out what to do about my back up needs, let’s take a quick look back at this dumpster fire of a NAS box.
Continue reading “Western Digital My Cloud EX4 NAS: The WORST Tech I’ve Ever Owned”