Editorial desk
NAS Hardware Guide Editorial
The editorial desk that publishes NAS Hardware Guide. It is a byline for the site's editorial process, not a person, and this page carries no author biography because there is no individual author to describe.
How this desk works
- Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them.
- Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before publication.
- Nothing published here claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or someone else's test, the article names the source.
- Corrections go to [email protected] and are made on the affected page. Funding is set out on the disclosure page.
Posts (4)
- Drives
CMR vs SMR NAS Drives: What Actually Changes
Why shingled recording collapses under array rebuilds, how the 2020 disclosure changed drive labelling, and how to check what a drive really is.
- Buying Guides
NAS Buying Guide: How to Choose Your First NAS
Which first-NAS decisions are reversible and which are not: bay count, drive choice, memory, network speed and the power draw nobody plans for.
- Troubleshooting
NAS Slow Transfer Speeds: A Diagnosis Order
Work out the link ceiling, split network from disk, then rule out SMB behaviour, parity writes and shingled drives before buying faster hardware.
- Build Planning
Sizing NAS Hardware: Bays, HBAs, ECC Memory and Power
How drive bay count, HBA choice, PCIe lanes, ECC memory and PSU headroom constrain a NAS build, and the places where newcomers reliably overspend.