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CES 2012: ioSafe shocks the Rugged Portable Thunderbolt
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 [...]
Category: Windows Home Server
CES Day 2
Today was short day for me as I was not able to get to the show till after lunch. Despite the short stay, I saw some pretty cool stuff. Sony demos working DLNA. First DLNA demo I have seen that seems to work as well as Air Play. Samsun shows off their super OLED [...]
Category: BYOB Hardware, Windows Home Server
HSS is “All In” with Xtreme Systems Poker Tournament
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 [...]
Category: Windows Home Server
CES 2012 –Day 1-Part 1
Here are some of the highlights of day 1 one at CES. Make sure you check out Part 2 for some case action. Thunderbolt. WD showed off their 6T x 4 (24T) Thunderbolt setup. Each box is configured in a RAID 0, and all 4 boxes are RAIDED via Thunderbolt. Check out the benchmarks. Video [...]
Category: BYOB Hardware, Windows Home Server
CES 2012 Day 1-Part 2-Cases
We had some great conversations with the folks from Lian-Li and Fractal. Lian-Li has over 8 new cases being release that will be available around April. This one is pretty interesting. Can you say HPTC or firewall router? The Fractal cases on display where not new models but I [...]
Category: BYOB Hardware, Windows Home Server
CES 2012: WD Shows MyBook Thunderbolt External Drive
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 [...]
Category: Windows Home Server
New Synology DSM and Cloud Front beta Imminent
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 [...]
Category: Windows Home Server
CES 2012 ShowStoppers Live Tonight!
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 [...]
Category: Windows Home Server
Watch the CES 2012 Keynote tonight!
Tonight is the big night. Microsoft’s last keynote at CES is about to happen so don’t miss it! Watch it live HERE and chat with us during the keynote at http://homeservershow.com/live We did this last year and it was a huge success. Everyone involved still reminds me of how much fun it was. I hope [...]
Category: Windows Home Server
Air Video
Streaming on the road. Air Video is an application for iPhone/iPad/iTouch that works extremely well for streaming directly from a local computer/server, and stream to your portable device. The PC/MAC is used for real-time transcoding and basically pulls content from your computer/server shares and streams it across your house as well as through the broadband [...]
Category: Windows Home Server
