Category: Storage
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Digital Storage at Home: My storage story
For years I never had any kind of storage or backup plan. From the late 90’s to early 2000’s, I had used 1GB Iomega Jaz drives for storage but over time, I thought I could resort to using CD-ROMs. I also kept adding larger hard disks figuring that I wouldn’t need anything serious. Four years…
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Digital Storage at Home: Planning for storage nirvana
You’ve decided to take the plunge into sharing digital storage between your computers, tablets, phones, home theater PCs, etc. Fantastic. It may seem like overkill, but as I’ve pointed out before we have so much to capture, share and download from the Internet, while keeping all the old artifacts will eventually lead to problems with…
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Digital Storage at Home: Why should anyone care?
Over the past five years, my storage needs have grown at a faster rate in comparison to all other technological needs (computers, gaming, consoles, phones, laptops, etc.). At first, I didn’t realize just how large applications and games had become just to install. I didn’t even take in updates and patches for consideration to the…
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New mini-series: Digital Storage at Home
So, I’m going to be writing up several articles all related to my adventures in home storage technology; namely Network Attached Storage (NAS). Over the past five years, I’ve been investing my time/energy and money into several different storage solutions so I’ll be sharing my experience over the coming weeks.