Nathan Reynolds

Yes, a mini PC can absolutely run Linux. In fact, mini PCs are often a better fit for Linux than a traditional desktop tower because they use laptop-grade components that are widely supported by the Linux kernel. I switched my own home office setup to a mini PC running Linux Mint two years ago and … Read more

Last , my studio partner called me in a panic. He had just lost a wedding album because his portable drive failed three days before the client delivery. Two months of work, gone. That was the weekend I installed a Synology DS425+ in our small studio, and we have not looked back since. If you … Read more

If you’re building or upgrading a home PC, picking the best budget power supplies for home PCs can feel like defusing a bomb. Spend too little, and you risk a “ticking time bomb” that takes your entire system with it. Spend too much, and you’ve blown your budget on a component most people never think … Read more

I built my first small form factor PC three years ago, and I learned the hard way that not every SSD belongs in a tiny case. A standard M.2 2280 NVMe drive that runs cool in a mid-tower can throttle badly inside an 8-liter chassis, dragging your boot times and game loads down without warning. … Read more

I learned this the hard way on a 30-minute client deliverable. My old SATA SSD was choking on 4K ProRes 422 footage, dropping frames every time I hit play, and turning what should have been a smooth timeline into a slideshow. That disaster pushed me to spend three months testing every modern NVMe and external … Read more

If you are building a NAS on a budget, finding the best shuckable external drives for NAS builds is hands-down the smartest way to cut your storage cost per terabyte. I started shucking drives in 2019 for my own home server, and over the past several years our team has pulled apart more than 40 … Read more

When I built my first gaming PC back in 2012, I shoved a 500GB HDD into it and thought I was set. Modern games alone can chew through 100GB each, and 4K video files make that drive feel like a closet. That’s why I spent the last three months testing the best internal hard drives … Read more

I rebuilt my home lab around NAS performance two years ago, and I’ve been chasing the perfect SSD caching setup ever since. After testing ten different units over the past four months – copying multi-terabyte video libraries, running Plex transcodes on 4K HDR remuxes, and spinning up Docker containers for Home Assistant and Immich – … Read more

Building a media library that can hold your entire 4K Blu-ray collection takes serious storage. After spending three months spinning up eight different 18TB NAS hard drives in Synology, TrueNAS, and UnRAID boxes at our home lab, I learned which ones actually survive marathon Plex sessions and which ones quietly die in the corner. The … Read more

If you have ever watched a 4K timeline crawl while a spinning beach ball ruins your edit, you already know why we built this guide. Our team spent 90 days testing 12 of the best 4TB NVMe SSDs for creators across video editing, photo archival, and 3D rendering workloads to find the real winners, not … Read more