Having taken you on a brief journey of building your own NAS I think there are a few crucial reflections I want to share with you, in case you need any more persuading or dissuading as to whether this ...

Saving money only to spend more later.

2025 was going to be the year I upgraded my Synology to a newer model with 10GbE support. But I will not support their enshittification plans, even if there are viable workarounds. Guess it's time to ...

It's a common assumption that a home-built NAS beats cloud storage when it comes to storage pricing, even when it's easy to point to Backblaze's $6 per TB-month rate and say, "Just use the cloud; ...

If you are interested in building your very own network attached storage (NAS) you might be interested in a new tutorial published by the Explaining Computers channel which shows how you can use a ...

I'm looking for a small and power efficient NAS build with 6 or so drives and I'd like to take advantage of the dual M.2 drives I have as well. The Synology and QNAP 6-bay systems look really nice ...

The case is possibly the most crucial element to this build – it determines how many drives you can use, how big the rest of your components can be and how discrete your NAS build will be. We opted ...