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 ...

Pick the wrong RAID level, and you might end up losing all your data ...

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 ...

Customers demanding large capacity will find the DiskStation DS2415+ very attractive. Move to bigger models if you need 10GbE speeds. PC Gamer's got your back Our experienced team dedicates many hours ...

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 ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

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 ...