Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 is a Johnny-come-lately to the NAS market, but Seagate seems to have done its homework. Aimed at small businesses with 50 or fewer employees, this Linux-based appliance is ...

Aimed at small businesses with 50 or fewer employees, this Linux-based appliance is full-featured and flexible, with the promise of further extensibility. Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 is a ...

Open source NAS devices on the hot seat: Snap Appliances edges out competing products from FAI and American Megatrends in tests conducted by Miercom. Open source enthusiasts, particularly Linux ...

Open source enthusiasts, particularly Linux advocates, make much of the inherent systemic and cost efficiencies of Unix operating systems. To ascertain how the beauties of an open source operating ...

The Reviewmeister is still testing out network-attached storage devices, only this week we’re looking at open source products. First, let’s take a close look at Snap Appliance’s Snap Server 14000.

Install Homey on Synology with Docker/Container Manager: prerequisites, docker-compose, startup, adding to the Homey app, ...

Backups are important, like really important. Now that I’ve stated the obvious, let me also talk about the challenges. The first one is cloud storage, and how the prices keep creeping up. As your data ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...