#hard-drives
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.