Ever have a server laying around that is not quite old enough to trash but not quite new enough to use as a production machine. Are you dying to move from direct attached storage into something more ...

Earlier this year we tested Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. Now we’re reviewing software-based NAS that you can load onto your own equipment — whether it’s a PC, server, virtual machine, or ...

FreeNAS is a free and open source operating system designed for network-attached storage (NAS) devices. For much of the past decade, the project has been led by the folks at iXsystems, which has also ...

Go big or go home.

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I've got an older box with a bunch of drives in it that's got a old Linux distro I don't remember the name of which is no longer maintained on it.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 ...

Network-attached storage (NAS), or file storage, provides shared storage in which access to data takes place at the level of entire files. NAS is defined by the fact it runs a file system and manages ...

Explore the differences between NAS and cloud storage in 2026, including file size limits, data ownership, and long-term cost ...