Syncing and sharing files in your network, is really simple these days.

Editor’s note: With the Thanksgiving holiday here, this is our only newsletter this week. For a reminder of things we should be thankful for, read Ellen Messmer’s ...

File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This article aims ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

Media files now consume enormous amounts of storage, growing at a scale that has led to the termination of integrated drives in dedicated media server chassis. Future systems will need to be attached ...

So, I want to build a NAS, maybe something based on TrueNAS/FreeNAS, or similar. All of them support a variety of network filesystems, like CIFS/SMB, NFS, etc. What I'm wanting to know, is there an ...

Slow NAS speeds aren’t always a hardware problem.