Richard Lee

I spent the last three months living with eight different NAS enclosures for beginners to find out which ones actually deliver on the promise of “easy private cloud.” After drowning in cloud subscription fees for years, I wanted my own setup with full data control and no monthly bills. I tested each enclosure with real

I have been running network attached storage in my own home office and a few small business clients for over a decade, and I keep coming back to the same conclusion: a 4-bay NAS enclosure is the sweet spot for most people. Two bays limits your RAID options and caps capacity too low. Six or

After spending three months rotating six drives through six different 6-bay NAS enclosures in my home office, I can tell you this category has changed dramatically. Two years ago, anything with six bays cost well over a grand and came from one of two brands. In , I tested units ranging from a compact 800g

If you’ve ever watched a progress bar crawl during a large file transfer, you already understand why NAS enclosures with 10Gb Ethernet matter. I spent the last 90 days testing eight different 10GbE NAS enclosures on my home network, pushing multi-gig file transfers, running Plex streams, and spinning up Docker containers. A standard 1GbE NAS

I’ve spent the last three months running eight different 8-bay NAS enclosures through their paces in my home lab, pushing them with sequential reads, mixed workloads, and real RAID rebuilds. After testing the Synology DS1825+ alongside the UGREEN DXP8800 Plus, dropping NVMe SSDs into the TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus, and even spinning up Docker stacks

After spending 90 days benchmarking eight different NAS enclosures with M.2 cache in our home lab and small business test environments, I can tell you which ones actually deliver on their NVMe caching promises and which ones throttle under sustained workloads. Our team pushed each unit through sequential reads, random 4K writes, mixed Plex transcoding,