Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB) — Now In Stock

Portable SSDs for speed, desktop hard drives for bulk backups — how to pick the right external storage in 2026, and the drives we'd buy on Amazon AU.

Security cameras destroy ordinary microSD cards. Here's why high-endurance cards exist, which ones to buy on Amazon AU, and how to size a card for 24/7 or event recording.

Choosing between NAS, SAN, and DAS storage architectures is one of the most important infrastructure decisions an organisation can make. Each approach offers distinct advantages in performance, scalability, and cost. This guide breaks down all three, compares protocols and use cases, and helps you pick the right fit for your environment.

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a fundamental storage technology that combines multiple drives to improve performance, provide redundancy, or both. Understanding the different RAID levels and their trade-offs is essential for anyone designing server or storage infrastructure. This guide covers every common RAID level in detail.

Not all storage is created equal. Object storage, block storage, and file storage each address different workloads, performance requirements, and cost profiles. Choosing the wrong type can mean paying too much for capacity you do not need or suffering performance bottlenecks that cripple applications. This guide explains how each storage type works, when to use it, and how they compare on performance, scalability, and cost at scale.

Storage capacity grows cheaper each year, but data grows faster. Deduplication and compression are the two foundational technologies that reduce the physical storage required for a given data set, cutting costs on disk, backup media, and replication bandwidth. This guide explains how deduplication and compression work, the trade-offs between inline and post-process approaches, and how leading backup and storage vendors implement these features.