Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

Storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS) owe their popularity to some compelling advantages in scalability, utilization and data management. But achieving high performance for ...

I've been reviewing DAS (Direct-Attached Storage) solutions for Macs, especially for workflows like video editing and VM use. Here’s a breakdown that might help others in this thread: 1. HDD-Based DAS ...

Deciding how you're going to start or expand your network storage should be a simple proposition. But spending a day listening to sales pitches riddled with confusing acronyms like DAS, SAN, and NAS ...

Versatile connectivity and state-of-the-art storage highlight QNAP's TBS-h574TX NVMe SSD-based Network and direct attached ...

Self-hosting your own data can be a rewarding experience, knowing that you control all of it and can upgrade the amount of ...

High-availability systems are essential to nearly all businesses regardless of size or industry. When systems running business-critical applications such as transaction processing, Web serving or ...

If you look through the scores of online forums where Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems are discussed, one of the most common user “wants” is for a NAS to simultaneously be a DAS (Direct Attached ...

SSD is in the name, but the SSD6540 isn't actually an SSD at all. The system is the first NVMe over cable external enclosure, a DAS or Direct-Attached Storage. A DAS can technically be anything from a ...