Self-hosting your data and services with Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a great way to free yourself from the spiraling costs and tangled web of subscription fees. Whether you’re simply looking to ...

Let's start with the final piece before we get into the whys and hows: the Ultimate Home Entertainment Server, in this case, is, well, my NAS and home setup. An ASUSTOR AS5402T NAS with four Viper ...

So I've got an older box with a bunch of drives in it that's got a old Linux distro I don't remember the name of which is no longer maintained on it. I want to turn it into a server that can function ...

If you think your homelab is complete with just one NAS—think again. I run multiple NAS servers in my homelab, and it’s actually improved my workflow and homelabbing experience way more than I ...

Ryzen 5 3600 CPU (could wait for Zen 3 but I don't think I'm CPU bound in this workload and this is substantially cheaper than the launch price for the 5600) cheapo fanless GPU (I expect to run this ...

Would you pay $3,600 a year just to store your files? That’s the price Google quoted for 20TB of cloud storage, an eye-watering sum that forces you to question the value of convenience. For many, the ...

I thought my next home server needed a high-end CPU, but Intel’s N100 proved that most home server builds are far more ...