Independent Australian storage and infrastructure guides. Real AU pricing, honest verdicts.
Google Photos ended free unlimited storage in 2021. If you're hitting the 15GB limit or don't want to pay Google One rates in Australia, here are the real alternatives. From other cloud options to owning your own photo storage.
How long you can keep home CCTV footage depends on your storage size and camera settings. Not the law. Here's how to calculate how much storage you actually need, and what Australians should know about home surveillance data.
The ATO requires Australian businesses to keep most financial records for 5 years. But where those records live, and what counts as adequate backup, is less clear. Here's what the rules actually say and how to meet them without overcomplicating it.
Dropbox Plus costs around AU$200 a year. Priced in USD and billed at whatever the exchange rate happens to be. Here's an honest look at whether it's still worth it, and what Australians are actually using instead.
If you have 10 years of phone photos, how much will you pay to store them over the next 20 years? The answer depends on which storage option you choose. And the gap between cloud and home storage is larger than most people expect.
Still emailing files to yourself or carrying a USB drive between rooms? Here are the four ways to share files across all your home devices. And how to choose the right one for your situation.
Every Synology NAS you can buy in Australia in 2026. DS124 through DS1825+, with AU pricing from Mwave and PLE, spec comparison, and which model to buy.
Most small businesses in Australia are sharing files the wrong way. Emailing attachments, passing USB drives across a desk, or living inside a shared Dropbox folder no one fully controls. The good news is that proper shared storage does not require an IT department or a large budget. Here is what is available, what it costs, and which option suits which kind of business.
If your hard drive just failed, the first thing to do is stop using it. Do not write new data to it, do not run a disk repair, and do not panic. Here is the actual sequence of steps to follow. And what to do so this never happens again.
iCloud is the path of least resistance for iPhone and Mac users. Until the storage bill arrives. For Australians, the cost is higher than it looks: iCloud is priced in USD and billed in AUD at a rate that reflects the exchange gap. Here is what you are actually paying, and what the alternatives look like.
YouTube creators face a footage management problem that grows with every shoot. External drives pile up, old projects become inaccessible, and backups are inconsistent. A NAS solves this with centralised storage, automatic versioning, and reliable backup. This guide covers what Australian YouTube creators actually need and the models worth buying.
Shared NAS storage for video post-production lets multiple editors access the same project files simultaneously. But getting simultaneous access, file locking, and network throughput right requires more than just a big NAS. This guide covers the architecture, protocols, and NAS models that work for Australian post-production teams.
4K and 8K video editing demands NAS speeds that typical consumer units can't provide. This guide identifies which Synology, QNAP, and UGREEN NAS models deliver the throughput, 10GbE support, and SSD cache options needed for real-time editing workflows. With Australian pricing from local retailers.
Upgrading to a new Synology NAS? Drive migration and the DSM Migration Assistant let you move your entire storage pool, configurations, and data with minimal downtime. This guide covers both migration methods. Moving physical drives and network migration via Migration Assistant. With Australian context on models, retailers, and ACL protections.
10GbE promises 10× the speed of standard Gigabit networking, but for most home NAS users it's an expensive upgrade that won't improve their day-to-day experience at all. This guide explains when 10GbE genuinely matters, when it doesn't, and what it actually costs in Australia.
Synology's Container Manager lets you run Docker containers directly on your NAS. Self-hosted apps, home automation, media servers, and more without needing a separate server. This guide covers installation, pulling images, composing multi-container apps, and the hardware requirements that trip up Australian users.
Synology Drive turns your NAS into a self-hosted Dropbox. Syncing files across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS with version history and selective sync. This guide covers installation, client setup, team folder configuration, and the settings that trip people up in Australian home and small business deployments.
A Synology NAS can serve as a macOS Time Machine backup destination over your local network. No Apple Time Capsule required. This guide covers enabling SMB/AFP Time Machine shares on DSM, configuring macOS to use the NAS, setting storage quotas, and the common setup failures to avoid.
Synology Active Backup for Business lets you back up Windows PCs, servers, VMs, and Microsoft 365 data directly to your NAS. No per-device licence fees. This guide covers installation, PC agent setup, backup task configuration, and recovery, with Australian context on NBN upload and storage sizing.
Synology Photos turns your NAS into a self-hosted Google Photos alternative with AI face detection, shared albums, and automatic mobile backup. No subscription required. This guide covers installation, configuration, and the settings that matter for Australian users.
Setting up NAS-based surveillance in Australia? This guide covers camera selection, NVR vs NAS-native recording, storage sizing, and which NAS models suit home and SMB CCTV workloads in 2026.
S.M.A.R.T. tests are the first line of defence against surprise drive failures in a NAS. Learn how to run them on Synology, QNAP, and Asustor, what the results mean, and when to act before you lose data.
SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID) is Synology's proprietary RAID system that automatically optimises storage across mismatched drives. This guide explains how SHR works, when to use it, and how it compares to standard RAID on Synology NAS devices.
Running AI tools locally on a NAS keeps sensitive business data off overseas cloud servers, cuts subscription costs, and simplifies Australian privacy compliance. Here is what small businesses need to know before deploying local AI on a NAS in 2026.