Representing the entry point of Qsan’s new NAS appliance family, the XCubeNAS XN5104R offers SMBs a small footprint storage ...

They never quite caught on, but [Jan Weber] found an old example and set about repurposing it as a NAS. The Fujitsu Futro S900 was built up to 2013, and only had one SATA port from the factory.

Now Topton has updated a mini ITX board for NAS systems by adding Intel N150 and Core 3 N355 Twin Lake processor options. The board is available from AliExpress for $169 and up. This board has ...

SAS drives are generally faster than SATA drives and more reliable, but are also more costly. Although SATA drives can be connected to a SAS interface, SAS drives require an adapter to hook up to ...