Storage

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USB drive in a Samsung Galaxy phone 3
I stopped worrying about Samsung Galaxy storage after finding this one camera setting

Record straight to a USB drive.

TrueNAS vs UnRaid
TrueNAS Scale vs Unraid: I ran both for a month, and the winner wasn't what I expected

I had already picked my favorite before testing them. That turned out to be a mistake!

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ASUSTOR Lockerstor 2 Gen2+ two-bay NAS front three-quarter view.
Four NVMe slots and 14 simultaneous transcodes make this NAS hard to ignore

Strong streaming performance meets business-grade complexity.

A Beelink SER3 Mini PC held up in front of a screen showing the System Monitor app’s view of memory usage.
Linux swap files just saved my low-RAM PC from obsolescence

Avoid sluggish systems and frozen desktops with a quick-and-easy fix.

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Powervault M1000 running-1
Used enterprise DAS enclosures are the storage hack nobody talks about enough

Your next storage upgrade might be hiding in a dusty server room!

TerraMaster F4-425 Pro NAS front four-bay chassis with USB port and power button.
My new NAS only turns on once a month. Here's why that's not as crazy as it sounds

Not all storage advice applies to everyone, and this proves it

An iPhone with a message from Gmail stating that storage is almost full.
Lifetime cloud storage deals aren't a "scam," but they might as well be

It's all fun and games until you're locked out of the "lifetime" storage you bought.

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Synology HAT3300-4T hard drive partially inserted into the DS225 Plus NAS bay.
Why I always "burn in" new HDDs before adding them to my NAS

You need to stress 'em a bit before you fire them up.

Point-in-time restore options menu in Windows Settings.
The hidden Windows feature quietly filling up your SSD—and how to rein it in

It can fill up to 20GB of space on a 1TB SSD.

Pattern of USB flash drives and SSDs in different colors arranged on a blue background. Lucas Gouveia/How-To GeekPattern of USB flash drives and SSDs in different colors arranged on a blue background.
5 reasons i've started using flash drives over SSDs

Sometimes, smaller is better.

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An SSD in an enclosure.
This forgotten SATA trick made my cheap old SSD feel brand new
SSD

Your SSD has been asking for some breathing room this whole time!

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SHARGE Disk Pro 2 attached to phone with card inserted.
The Sharge Disk Pro 2 is the swappable storage solution my phone has been waiting for

The Disk Pro 2 combines portable storage, display output, card readers, and charging in one small device.

The main settings menu on a Pixel 10 Pro
This Android storage cleanup trick found gigabytes I didn’t know I was wasting

This simple trick can claw you back more than 10 gigabytes of storage.

Ugreen DXP2800 GT beside Ugreen DXP4800 GT front size comparison.
My decade-old Xeon server lost to a budget UGREEN NAS in every way that matters

New NAS hardware made my former bargain difficult to justify.

ORICO 9948RC3 PRO four-bay DAS silver aluminum enclosure on desk.
ORICO's 4-bay DAS proves redundant storage doesn't need to be complicated

Fast transfers and flexible RAID modes make this more than a basic drive enclosure.

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Eight Seagate Drives in Server Chassis
I bought used enterprise HDDs cheap and learned the hard way why they're risky

Sometimes the cheapest storage is the storage you spend an entire weekend trying to convince your server to accept!

proxmox
8 things you should never do in Proxmox (unless you want your homelab to crash)

Proxmox has a few buttons you should probably think twice about pressing!

TerraMaster F4-425 Pro NAS drive tray with HGST 3.5-inch hard drive outside bay.
Your NAS will eventually fail—here are 5 cheap ways to protect your data

Don’t put all your backups in one drive.

WinRAR opened on a Windows desktop PC.
Why are you still using WinRAR when this open-source alternative is so much better?

WinRAR is pretty good, but 7-Zip is better.

ShredOS boot menu on a monitor
ShreadOS destroys your old PC's data more thoroughly than a hammer ever will

It turns disk wiping into a dedicated job!

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