For the past several years, I've used a custom-built file server at my house. I've upgraded it many times, but it began life, as near as I can recall, in April 2000. When I say "upgraded", I mean the ...

Mention the phenomenon called Shadow IT — and someone will likely mention Dropbox. Shadow IT happens when departments or individual employees use technologies that aren’t sanctioned by IT — something ...

I'm toying with the idea of building a linux-based file server and have a few questions, mostly hardware related. If it affects the answers in any way, I'll probably be running Fedora on it, but this ...

See the 3D printed 2U rack automated ingestion server. Powered by an AMD Ryzen 7600X with Intel Arc A310, plus Python, FFmpeg ...

Setting up a file server doesn't need to be complicated. With three desktop machines (Kubuntu, Win XP and a testbed, which is currently running ReactOS) and a laptop (Xubuntu) in use at home, our IT ...

Upload and download files on your home PC from anywhere by turning it into a personal FTP server. With a home FTP server, you can upload and download files on your home hard drive from the office, ...

Technically speaking, you don't need to buy new hardware to build a Plex media server. Any old computer can get the job done, ...

If you've been working with networks for any length of time, you've no doubt had a server's hard disk fill up, which usually means it's time to have users clear out files they no longer use. You can ...

I'm looking to move some of the drives out of my case (or buy new ones) to make a separate file server to handle all of my stuff (mp3s/divx/photos/etc.), but I'm somewhat strapped for cash at the ...

Virtual machine programs such as VMWare allow you to quickly install a number of different operating systems on one machine. The majority of these virtual machine programs allow you to load an ISO, or ...