Ayeshha·1d agoBest NAS Hard Drives in 2026: The Honest Buyer’s Guide for the Shortage EraARRAY DEGRADED. Rebuild ETA: unknown. Drive type: SMR. The sticker said “NAS.” The spec sheet said otherwise. Here’s how to never be that…
iFynx Integrated Solutions·2d agoQNAP Plex2Shell Warning: Update Plex Media Server, Then Assess Whether Your NAS Needs RecoveryDirect answer: QNAP’s 6 November notice says some users report that Plex Media Server on their NAS appears to have been compromised through…
Nader Eloshaiker·3d agoYour NAS disks never spin down? A free fix for OpenMediaVault and WD Red drivesA small, free plugin that puts idle hard disks to sleep when they ignore their own spindown timer, without ever waking a sleeping disk.
Nader Eloshaiker·3d agoRun OpenMediaVault on your QNAP NAS: quiet fans, working LEDs and buttonsLeaving QTS? A free, open source plugin brings QNAP fan control, LEDs and buttons to OpenMediaVault, set up in one click.
IT Tools & Reviews·4d agoBest External Drives and NAS for Small Business Backup (2026)The simple hardware-plus-cloud setup I’d use to make sure a small business never loses its files
Kussagra Pathak·4d agoBuilding My Own Ultimate Home Server & CI/CD Hub: Raspberry Pi, 4TB NAS, CasaOS, and Cloudflare…If you’ve ever wanted total control over your data, a personal cloud storage system, and a self-hosted CI/CD deployment pipeline without…
Ayeshha·Nov 2TrueNAS Scale vs Unraid (2026): I Put Both on a Hiring Panel, and One Would Waste 16TB on Day OneSlip one 24TB drive into a ZFS vdev of 8TB drives and 16TB of it sits there doing nothing on day one. This is for anyone about to buy NAS…
Eric S·Oct 31Making a USB Drive Accessible to Local Network Using SambaSince my router doesn’t support direct USB connections, I’ll mount the drive on my Ubuntu server and share it locally using Samba.
TUNGTEK Tùng 0963509115·Oct 25A .babyk Extension Is a Clue, Not a Recovery PlanOn encrypted NAS storage, fragile decryptors, and keeping a way back before attempting recovery.
