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What you need: NAS devices come in a wide range of configurations. At the very minimum, you should make sure you get one that supports two drives, so if one drive fails, your data is still protected.

On paper, purchasing a multi-bay NAS might feel very boring since it's essentially an expensive black box full of spinning metal hard drives that you tuck away in a closet or server rack. However, ...

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Storage hardware has a reputation for being somewhat difficult to configure, but NAS appliances can be surprisingly easy to set up. This tip focuses on how to set up rackmount NAS appliances, but ...

When setting up the NAS, you’ll set up the NAS’s two drives in a so-called RAID 1 array, also known as “disk mirroring.” This makes it so that all your data stored on the NAS is mirrored on both ...

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Synology, the Taiwanese company has been a household name globally for its wide range of NAS products for data management, backup, and storage solutions. Russell Chen, the Country Manager of Synology ...

I am trying to get a NAS device (western digital my book world) to function on the secondary NIC of a domain file/backup server (server 08). I configured and tested the NAS device on a windows client.