Awesome show for you this week. Patrick Kennedy from servethehome.com joins us to talk about networking gear, hard drives, motherboards, his site, and his gear. It’s a hardware show for sure. Patrick has a lot of knowledge in the area and we hit him with a ton of questions. There is also a ton of [...]
Slow news week for Windows Home Server enthusiasts but there is plenty of talk about Synology and Windows 8 Storage Spaces. Greg Welch, aka @WelchWerks, joins us to talk about his atypical “Home” server and it’s role in his household. @Dieharder takes a week off and @jcollison needs a tissue. All this pfSense, Untangle, a [...]
It’s the first podcast after returning from CES 2012 and we have a wrap for you. Don’t worry though, we keep the CES talk short because there are other matters to attend to. Windows 8 and Storage Spaces. We dive deep into a blog post about Windows 8 and how the new Storage Spaces works. [...]
There was plenty to see and do at CES 2012 but one of the booth tours that I really enjoyed was the Synology booth. Here is a quick video of the DSM 4 Beta walkthrough. If you own a Synology box you too can try out the new beta. Check here for more information. Remember [...]
The Synology DSM 4.0 beta. You saw the Home Server Show crew bring it to you first. You have read the blogs, seen the dead links, seen the “coming soon” links and now the 4.0 beta is ready to download! Jump to this page to get started. We have also added a dedicated section to [...]
ioSafe has never been shy when it comes to testing their own gear to the extreme. Neither has Home Server Show for that matter! I hope you remember my ‘unauthorized’ backyard burn of the ioSafe Solo. If not maybe you need to catch up. Here it is on YouTube. At CES 2010 ioSafe destroyed the [...]
Xtreme Systems is holding a poker tournament today at 7:00PM and I’m registered to play. The event is sponsored by: ASUS Corsair Gigabyte OCZ MSi Theraltake Swiftech Kingston Cyperpower Koolance FrozenCPU, Inc. The prize list is huge for the winner and there will be a bounty on the heads of manufacturers that get knocked [...]
Western Digital has broken from their normal method of introducing new products only when ready to ship by teasing CES 2012 with the MyBook Thunderbolt drive. At a private party WD displayed 4 of these drives in a RAID 0 stripe with a Thunderbolt display at the end of the chain. The speeds were very [...]
Synology is displaying their new DSM at CES 2012 and they hinted towards a public beta that should be coming out very soon. I was able to get a good look at the new DSM and it looks like a fantastic refresh of the product. Disk Station Management is the GUI application that runs [...]
Get ready for ShowStoppers! It’s a mini CES in one ballroom at the Wynn hotel. It’s tonight, Tuesday, January, 10th from 6 PM PST to 10. Tune into our live stream at the top of the blog or here for live action from the show. Tons of media people will be there and it’s just [...]
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