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BYOB Episode 121
Kevin Schoonover joins the BYOB crew this week for an all rants n raves episode. Some new cloud storage services. PlayOn Cloud Storage – Two New Players Copy.com Bitcasa PlayOn Media Streaming – Re-Revisted PlayOn DLNA Service Router Woes I got the firewall blues. The ZyXell might be traded down for a more consumer [...]
Category: BYOB, Windows Home Server
Drobo Meetup with Jim Collison on Home Server Show 224
You thought The Home Server Show took the week off didn’t you? Well, @jcollison didn’t and he has a short podcast for you live from the Drobo Meetup. My thanks to Dennis, Greg, and Jim! Enjoy and don’t forget to RSVP to the Third Annual HSS, SurfaceGeeks, AverageGuy Meetup! Meetup 2013 has a date and [...]
Category: Podcast, Windows Home Server
Moving my Windows Home Server 2011 to the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer
By: John Stutsman Last July, 2012, I wrote about how I Installed Windows Home Server 2011 on a 60GB SSD in a HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and using that as my primary home server. More recently in March, 2013, I wrote about Updating my Windows Home Server 2011 installed on the HP ProLiant N40L [...]
Category: HP Microserver, Review, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server 2011
Streaming Mega Episode on Home Server Show
Richard Gunther from The Digital Media Zone joins me to talk streaming services and devices. We are tossing a very wide net on this show in order to come up with what might be the best hardware and services for streaming of TV and Movies whether they are rented or your own. Richard Gunther @whatimpressesme [...]
Category: Podcast, Windows Home Server
BYOB Episode 120
Haswell and Durango are, and we’re excited! Seagate central. Automatic will it improve your gas mileage and make you a better driver? We discuss RAID, HDDs, SSDs and storage configuration. NEWS – The Big Stories! Next Gen XBOX announcement May 21 Intel Haswell CPUs Slated for release June 3 Hardware – Some Nifty Gizmos Seagate [...]
Category: BYOB, Windows Home Server
Performance Comparison of Windows Server 2012 Essentials on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer
By: John Stutsman One of the things I wanted to do with the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer was compare it’s performance to its predecessor HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer. In a previous writing I compared the rated performance of the CPU’s that showed the N54L scoring 43% higher than the N40L on benchmark tests accumulated [...]
Category: HP Microserver, Review, WIndows Server 2012 Essentials
Performance Measurement of the HP ProLiant N40L and N54L G7 MicroServer and Other NAS Devices
By: John Stutsman We all want to know how our MicroServer’s and other Machines compare in performance and how this performance is impacted by different hardware, storage drives, OS’s, drive extender replacements, RAID configurations, etc. Dave, Chris, and I thought it would be useful to build a jumping off point (a Start Menu of [...]
Category: Drive Extender, Hard Drives, HP Microserver, RAID, Review, SSD, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server 2011, WIndows Server 2012 Essentials
Don’t let the door hit you in The Home Server Show 222
End of an Era and what to expect for a while with The Home Server Show Podcast. Next week’s show is a CANT MISS! Plan to be here live next week at 8PM when we talk with Richard Gunther of The DMZ. Get your twitter on. Jim Collison – @jcollison, Dave, @homeservershow The Home Server [...]
Category: Podcast, Windows Home Server
QNAP TS-269L Turbo NAS Unboxing and Initial Setup
The Home Server Show Podcast is always looking for new storage hardware to try out and review for our listeners. While at CES 2013 Dave stopped by the QNAP booth and talked with them about their line of network attached storage (NAS) devices. QNAP has been generous enough to send us a 2-bay TS-269L Turbo [...]
Category: Review, Windows Home Server
BYOB Episode 119
Short show this week. Troubleshooting Intel Rapid Start, Windows Blue rumors of boot to desktop and the return of the start button. Last we discuss Durango from the opposite perspective from last week. Windows Rumors – Giving in? Boot to desktop with a start button NextBOX – Part 2, HTPC killer? We discuss how [...]
Category: BYOB, Windows Home Server
