Knowledge Base

Ah, the floppy disk. How I miss thee. How I don't. There was a certain tactile pleasure to inserting you into your drive, and in the early days, locking you in place. The audible...

Mention data safety, and backup will instantly spring to mind. What is not immediately available, even to seasoned IT professionals, is information about what makes a good backup solution. With more businesses embracing Microsoft...

To the outside world, FreeNAS (TrueNAS) and UnRAID appear far more alike than different. In effect, they are. Both are operating systems that allow you to leverage your own hardware as a NAS (Network...

Virtual Private Networks (VPN) have been around for roughly thirty years. They provide secure communication between two networks, even over the public internet. What is a VPN? It’s how you communicate in public but...

RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is the combining of multiple disks to mimic a single hardware storage device. Depending on the type, or "level", RAID increases performance, capacity, and fault tolerance in some...

There are a number of NAS operating systems out there, including several based on the BSD (Berkeley System Development) operating system. Most are proprietary to the vendor, but several are not. The most unique...

File systems are what make organized data storage possible, and quite a few have appeared over the years: FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, Ext2/3/4, Btrfs, HFS, APFS, etc. However, there's one file system that outshines them...

Firewall and rules are in place, intrusion detection systems are running, and all industry best practices are being followed. Great, but what about Radio Frequency attacks? They nimbly sidestep all of that. Radio Frequency Attacks Firewalls...

Hackers are the bad eggs in the cyber world that try to make use of any opportunity to steal information or money. Characteristically, they latch onto vulnerabilities and security loopholes to exploit computer users....

RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is the combining of multiple disks to mimic a single physical storage device. Depending on the type, or "level", RAID can increase performance, capacity, fault tolerance, or combinations...