Multiple Backup Strategies - Including Crashplan

David Gewirtz has an interesting post over at ZDnet about the importance of multiple backup strategies. Specifically, the post is "How CrashPlan cloud backup saved my bacon." The author lost a number of files and folders on a network share but was able to recover them from his Crashplan account. He has multiple layers of backup but needed to use Crashplan because he did not discover the documents were missing until after his primary backup was overwritten:
Anyway, although the

Multiple Backup Strategies - Including Crashplan

Another Western Digital Red NAS Hard Drive Review

Techgage has provided a review of the new Western Digital Red NAS hard drives. These drives are specifically designed and configured for use in Small Business and home NAS servers. One of the features of the Red hard drives is a change in error control so that the NAS RAID configuration handles error correction and has disabled automatic head parking while still retaining excellent (low) power consumption:
Red drives have an error recovery time set to a very low value, allowing

Western Digital Red NAS Hard Drive Review

Amahi 7 Coming in November

The Amahi Wiki has a new entry announcing that the new version of Amahi (the Linux-based NAS operating system) should be released in November. Amahi 7 will, suprisingly, be based on Fedora and not Ubuntu. Amahi suggests that this is not to suggest that Amahi is retreating from Ubuntu back to Fedora but rather:
Based on Fedora 17 (or 18), because ruby 1.9 and RoR 3.x are in by default in it.

We're not "abandoning" Ubuntu or "going back" to Fedora. We will attempt to support both. However,

Amahi 7 Coming in November

NAS Project Powered by Unraid

Sam9s has posted a two-part series describing his project to build a powerful NAS running the Unraid NAS operating system. The first part, posted last year, describes the hardware and a detailed account of his thought process which led him to go with Unraid as the NAS OS.

The second part, posted just recently, describes setting up FTP (sFTP) and VPN connectivity to his Unraid NAS. Specifically, he covers:
In this part 2 of the project we will discuss a few quintessential features of a NAS,

NAS Project Powered by Unraid

Why You Should Choose Amahi Home Server After Windows Home Server?

Teknoise.com has a post about why Amahi should be a good choice if you are searching for an alternative to Windows Home Server or Windows Home Server 2011 after Microsoft's announcement that there would be no new Windows Home Server operating system releases.

Amahi is a Linux based home server software solution which gives it some advantages and some disadvantages:
Amahi is an open-source, free and Linux-based home server equipped with Ubuntu and Fedora versions. It is

Why You Should Choose Amahi Home Server After Windows Home Server?

Synology DiskStation DS712+ Review

Testfreaks has reviewed the Synology DS712+, the most powerful two bay NAS in the Synology line. This NAS also has the distinction of supporting Synology's 5 bay expansion box, allowing for up to 7 drives.

As with all Synology NAS servers, the diskstation manager software supports a full range of server features:
For the business user the Synology DiskStation DS712+ offers iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) support and being Virtualization Ready for use with

Synology DiskStation DS712+ Review

Synology DiskStation DS712+ Review

Testfreaks has reviewed the Synology DS712+, the most powerful two bay NAS in the Synology line. This NAS also has the distinction of supporting Synology's 5 bay expansion box, allowing for up to 7 drives.

As with all Synology NAS servers, the diskstation manager software supports a full range of server features:
For the business user the Synology DiskStation DS712+ offers iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) support and being Virtualization Ready for use with

Synology DiskStation DS712+ Review