Before my Synology NAS died, I used Logitech Media Server to stream audio, it worked pretty well. I found the Audio Station software to be, well, crap. And this was on modern enough hardware to be ...

Bertel is a Linux user who likes budget smartphones more than flagships, uses a custom ROM, and gets his apps from F-Droid. When he isn't writing short stories for Android Police, you might find him ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Today we’re taking a closer look at Synology‘s DiskStation DS218play which is an entry-level NAS, but one with advanced functionality and extra hardware power. A quad-core processor, DDR4 memory, and ...

The ability to transcode 2160p video files in real time is this NAS box’s best feature by far. NAS boxes are nigh on perfect devices for storing and streaming your multimedia collections—music, video, ...

Synology has been a household name when it comes to NAS products. For the uninitiated, NAS or Network Attached Storage is a small always-on computer generally used as cloud storage for backing up ...

With services like Apple's iCloud and Google Cloud Music, it's easy to assume that the future of our data is putting it safe on someone else's servers. There's another option, however, in hosting your ...