Category: BYOB

BYOB Episode 76

BYOB Episode 76

AMD Hondo, iHomeserver, D-Link DAP-1522, Vertex 3 Max IOPS 240GB, and Raspberry Pie? Sponsor: GoToMeeting with HD Faces makes it easy to collaborate online anytime. Try it Free! Sponsor: MozyPro Online Backup: Simple, Automatic & Secure Backup http://mozy.com/pro AMD readies Hondo AMD Readies Hondo, a 4.5W APU slated for Windows 8 Tablet later this year. [...]

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BYOB Podcast 75

BYOB Podcast 75

Corsair Accelerator Series, Jawbone JamBox, How to be security conscious and why all on this weeks BYOB podcast. Sponsor: GoToMeeting with HD Faces makes it easy to collaborate online anytime. Try it Free! Sponsor: MozyPro Online Backup: Simple, Automatic & Secure Backup http://mozy.com/pro   Corsair SSD Caching drives Accelerator Series Big Sound, Tiny Box Jawbone [...]

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BYOB Podcast 74

BYOB Podcast 74

This week we comment on what CES 2012 had to offer. Thunderbolt, Highpoint hybrid RAID, Fractal & LianLi, Passive 3D, Smart TVs and Ceton Q and Echo. What’s up with Netflix? On this weeks BYOB Podcast CES 2012 Western Digital My Book Thunder bolt Synology NAS or is it a SAN? Highpoint RocketHybrid RAID controller [...]

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BYOB Episode 73

BYOB Episode 73

Data Recovery, Encryption, and Hard Drives.  Tonight we have the pleasure of being joined by Scott Moulton owner/founder of myharddrivedied.com.  We had a blast and learned an incredible amount about data recovery, hard drives, SSDs, and encryption.  We would like to thank Scott for spending time with us and for doing a fantastic job educating [...]

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BYOB Episode 72

BYOB Episode 72

2011 Tech Faves, Tim’s server woes, Mike’s ESXi update, Michael’s Crossfire, AMD 7970 specs released, facebook client, AppRap. Diehard helps fill in on this weeks BYOB Podcast. Sponsor: MozyPro Online Backup: Simple, Automatic & Secure Backup http://mozy.com/pro   AMD 7970 is a beast! [H]ardOCP PCPerspective AnandTech 1 AnandTech 2 Mike’s ESXi Update Michael’s R6970 Adventure [...]

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BYOB Episode 71

BYOB Episode 71

SkyDrive on mobile, the ESXi saga begins, Fractal Define R3 case, HTC Titan/Focus S/iPhone4S/Skyrocket comments, Xbox has a new console and Cord cutting has a setback. Its BYOB show 71. SkyDrive Tim reviews SkyDrive for iOS and Michael does the same for WP7 ESXi the other VM white meat Mike begins his exploration into ESXi [...]

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BYOB Episode 70

BYOB Episode 70

Gaming build, VM build, and VM philosophy.  Tonight we talk to Paul Braren (aka: tinkererguy on the forums) about two of his builds.  We also cover some details on ESXi as well as a general discussion on VMs.  A special thanks to Paul for joining us and sharing his builds.  As always, please let us [...]

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BYOB Episode 69

BYOB Episode 69

Cloning with Acronis, WHS on an SSD. Arcsoft Media Converter, #60 has a new Dashboard and Windows 8 Rumors? All on this weeks BYOB Podcast. Acronis to Clone the OS for WHS2011 Disk Director 11 Hardware Turncoat Mike uses Acronis to shrink his WHS2011 install and installs it onto an SSD. Sometimes pigs really can [...]

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Running an SSD on WHS

Running an SSD on WHS

OK, I take back all the grief I told everyone on the forums about using an SSD in a Windows Home Server.  That being said, this is probably not for everyone but if you have a spare SSD it is worth considering. Okay let me set up the background of the experiment for you. Since I [...]

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BYOB Episode 68

BYOB Episode 68

Kindle Fire, WD Sentinel, Whs2011+Acronis and we revisit the WDTV+ Live Hub. This week on the BYOB Podcast. Kindle Fire Is it Hot or Cold? Tim reviews his new kindle fire Kindle Fire WD Sentinel DX4000 Tim Reviews the Western Digital DX4000 which provides Windows Storage Server 2011 R2 Essentials, GigE, USB 3, and 4-8TB [...]

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