I have been putting off buying more NAS storage for years, letting the venerable D-Link DNS-323 protect my data with a mirrored pair of 500GB drives. Like everyone else, I have noticed that the media files just keep getting bigger, and I have two college kids at home with their computers, needing some place to […]

A few weeks ago I began reformatting some video files on my aging iMac, and it was taking f-o-r-e-v-e-r. I queued up several files in HandBrake and went to bed, expecting to find the work mostly complete by morning. What I found was a stone cold snoozing iMac. I tapped on the keyboard to bring […]