I'm interested in building my own small NAS boxes, because the ReadyNAS Duo's that I have been experimenting with are not quite meeting my needs. I want to end up with something similar to a ReadyNAS ...

I have spent a lot of time optimizing my NAS to run quietly and power efficiently. One big way to achieve that is to have the drives run as briefly as possible — I had mine set up to spin down after ...

On its own, the term “network-attached storage” sounds rather boring. You could easily imagine a useful-but-dull beige box that’s intended to live its days out in a corporate network’s server room.