Drives and Storage
Drive Clicking or Beeping in Your NAS: Causes
Learn which NAS drive noises are harmless, which mean a dying disk, and exactly which sound tells you to back…
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Drives and Storage
QNAP Drive Marked as Error: How to Recover
A QTS disk flagged with error status is not always a dead drive. Here is how to read the signs…
Drives and Storage
How Much Drive Failure Costs a Home NAS Owner
A failed NAS drive can cost you 90 dollars or 1,500 dollars depending on one thing: whether you had a…
Drives and Storage
SMART Attributes That Predict Drive Failure
Not every SMART value means anything. Here are the handful that actually warn you before a drive dies, and the…
Drives and Storage
Bad Sectors on a NAS Drive: Should You Worry?
That scary SMART warning does not always mean your drive is dying. Here is how to read the numbers and…
Drives and Storage
Synology SMART Warning: What It Means and Next Steps
That orange SMART alert in DSM is not always a death sentence, but it is a signal to act. Here…
Drives and Storage
NAS Hard Drive Failure: Signs, Causes and Fixes
Learn to catch a dying NAS disk early, understand why they fail, and act at each stage so you never…