James writes books, articles and jokes about technology from his Dallas-area home office. He also consults for those who don’t read his books and articles. Most organizations, whether small bureaus or ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

I'm sporting a Synology 213 NAS for my biz storage. It's a mirrored-disk RAID. I've been swapping out of of the two drives annually so that the 2-year old disk gets replaced with a new 2 TB WD Red.

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 ...

Careful where you pour that hot water: on the right is a 12oz coffee cup, while on the left is Synology's latest NAS, the 4-bay Disk Station DS409slim. Squeezing up to four 2.5-inch hard-drives into a ...

Just as you wouldn’t use a low-end graphics card for high-end usage, you shouldn’t use the wrong hard disk drive in your storage system either. There is a reason for every product and you should ...

Despite all of our NAS coverage over the years, the concept of network-attached storage is still a nebulous one to a lot of people whom I speak with. The convenience and accessibility of shared ...

In the world of network attached storage, there is a fast growing list of participants. Of the competing companies, there has really only been one that has the BYOD (Bring Your Own Disk) NAS market ...

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 ...