Nathan Reynolds

Setting up a productive home office no longer means finding room for a bulky tower. A well-chosen mini PC for remote work can run video calls, spreadsheets, browser tabs, and VPN sessions while disappearing behind your monitor or mounting to the back of it. After testing eight compact desktops side by side on a real … Read more

I spent the last 60 days running Plex Media Server on six different NAS devices, streaming 4K HDR content to multiple TVs, transcoding on the fly, and pushing each unit to its limits. After 312 hours of testing across 11 media libraries totaling 18TB, I can tell you exactly which NAS devices deserve a spot … Read more

After three months of testing NAS hardware across two homes, four streaming clients, and roughly 8TB of mixed 4K and 1080p media, I can tell you the answer to “what NAS to use with Jellyfin” without hesitation. It depends on how many simultaneous streams you plan to run and whether your family streams remotely. I … Read more

I spent the last three months stress-testing 10 NAS enclosures with real 4K HDR remux files to find out which ones can actually transcode smoothly in Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. After 1,200+ hours of streaming tests across multiple rooms and devices, I have a clear picture of which best NAS devices for 4K transcoding deliver … Read more

After 90 days of testing eight 2-bay NAS enclosures in our home office, one model stood out for its perfect balance of software polish, backup features, and price. In this guide, I share real results from a family of four running backups, streaming 4K content, and editing photos off the network. A 2-bay NAS enclosure … Read more

I’ve been running home media servers for the better part of a decade, and the jump from a 2-bay to a 4-bay NAS enclosure was the single best upgrade I made for my media library. After burning through external drives, cloud storage subscriptions, and a Frankenstein HTPC setup, I finally settled on a proper 4-bay … Read more

I have spent the past six months living with six different 6-bay NAS enclosures on my desk, swapping drives between them, running Plex streams while backups synced in the background, and timing how long RAID rebuilds actually take. If you are hunting for the best 6-bay NAS enclosure to tame a sprawling collection of 4K … Read more

If you handle large media libraries, run a Plex server for friends and family, or back up terabytes of footage from a video production workflow, you already know a 4-bay NAS eventually stops being enough. After testing more than a dozen units over the past several months, our team narrowed down the best 8-bay NAS … Read more

Building a high-performance storage setup used to mean stacking hard drives in a server closet and tolerating the noise. With the best all-flash NVMe NAS enclosures available in , you can replace spinning disks entirely and get transfer speeds that feel instantaneous. I’ve spent the last several months evaluating 12 different all-NVMe and hybrid NVMe … Read more

Apple quietly retired the AirPort Time Capsule in 2018, and I have been helping Mac users replace it ever since. After spending the last few months testing eight of the most popular NAS devices on my home network with three Macs in active rotation, I can tell you exactly which ones earn their keep and … Read more