Last year, my team started losing smart bulbs at 7 PM sharp. Not in some dramatic way – the routines just stopped firing. Lights would not turn on, sensors would not report, and my video doorbell started buffering right when the package arrived. The culprit was an aging Wi-Fi 6 router choking on 47 connected […]
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If you’ve ever pulled a portable drive out of your bag in a crowded airport and felt that tiny jolt of panic, you already understand why biometric protection matters. We spent the last several weeks testing the best portable SSDs with fingerprint security on real workloads, and the difference between a gimmicky sensor and a
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Looking for the best NAS drives for Plex servers in ? I spent the last three months testing eight NAS systems and hard drives in my home office, pushing them through real-world 4K HDR transcoding, multi-device streaming, and 24/7 media library access. My setup fed a family of five across two Apple TVs, a Shield
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After watching yet another photographer lose a wedding shoot to a failed external drive, I built my first NAS in 2019 and never went back. Since then our team has tested more than 30 network attached storage units across studio environments, location shoots, and home offices, and we keep landing on the same conclusion: the
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If you have ever watched a 4K timeline stutter because your external drive choked, you already know why video editors need purpose-built NAS drives for video editors. I run a small post-production studio with two editors, and we burned through three external SSDs and one DAS before I committed to a real network attached storage
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I built my first home lab in a closet with a screaming mini-PC and a stack of loose drives held together with rubber bands. After losing three months of project files to a controller failure, I bought my first proper NAS. That single purchase changed how I approach self-hosting, backups, and home automation. Today, after
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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
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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
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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
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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
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