My NAS was due for an update after serving me for several years. But I quickly learned that my older drives wouldn’t work ...

The Synology model I was eyeing crossed well past the $600 mark, and that’s without the hard drive cost. I calculated the ...

If DSM decides a drive is critical DSM stores "status critical" in a database and will not let you use the drive again. If you run an extended S.M.A.R.T. test on the drive in a computer and it says ...

Finding the largest SSD and hard drives can be a challenge with technology and innovations rapidly changing the state of play. We checked out which are the largest internal and external drives you can ...

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The best SSD for gaming might seem like somewhat oxymoronic phrasing given that you're not getting higher frame rates from having a faster drive in your gaming PC. But while the raw speed itself might ...

Today's fastest internal SSDs come in the super-small "gumstick" M.2 format. Here's how to buy the right M.2 SSD, along with deep-dive reviews of today's top models. Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag ...

Maybe your gaming laptop doesn’t have enough storage. Or you simply want an easy way to make your game library portable. An external SSD can fix both of these issues (and more) by providing an easy ...

Inside modern laptops, and in the hollows of today's desktop-PC motherboards, you'll find little sticks of storage—M.2 solid-state drives—that are far smaller and faster than classic 2.5-inch SATA ...

NAS URL (e.g. https://192.168.1.100:5000) DSM username and password Optionally allow self-signed certificates The credential logs in to obtain a session and uses it for subsequent calls.