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A Look at Seagate’s FreeAgent GoFlex 4TB External Disk Drive & Western Digital’s USB 3.0 PCIe Card in a MicroServer
By: John Stutsman I’m always looking at hard drives and ways that I can expand my storage capacity to better organize my systems and backups of those systems. The following is not strictly a review of the FreeAgent GoFlex 4TB or the WD USB 3.0 PCIe Card but more of a chronology of how well [...]
Category: Hard Drives, Home Server Storage, HP Microserver, Windows Home Server
BYOB Episode 84
Z77, Ivy Bridge, Windows 8 talk, SplashTop, and Cloud Drives. Tonight we have some in depth discussions on the new Ivy Bridge CPU’s and the Z77 chipsets. We also hash out some differences on the various cloud drives such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, and G Drive and talk about the pros and cons of each. We discuss [...]
Category: BYOB, Windows Home Server
SkyDrive on WHS 2011-One install is all you need
If you are like many and are jumping on the SkyDrive band wagon you might find yourself having to install it on many systems in your house. The issue soon becomes with many of these services is that you end up installing on too many devices. Since I have many computers on my internal network, [...]
Category: Windows Home Server
Perfect Disk for Windows Home Server 30% off
PerfectDisk promotion for Home Server Show readers and listeners. Any product offered by Raxco is now 30% off if you use this link and coupon code. The coupon code is: SERVERSHOW30 Raxco makes plenty of software to speed up your PC’s but they also make PerfectDisk for Windows Home Server. There are versions for both [...]
Category: Deals, Windows Home Server
Go from podcast listener to creator
It’s time. The Home Server Show has enjoyed producing 180 episodes and BYOB is running great at over half that much. Nope, we are not folding shop we are looking for more! I’m putting the call out for all enthusiasts in whatever category you might want to talk about for two reasons. The first is [...]
Category: Windows Home Server
Windows 8 on IOS
Every once in a while you just want to try something that you probably don’t need, but can’t help but being impressed by the cool factor. That’s pretty much the best way to explain the new Splashtop app for the iPad. When I heard about this from the homeservershow, there was a natural attraction and [...]
Category: BYOB, Windows Home Server
The Home Server Show 180
I crawled out from underneath my rock and found out how popular this Hunger Games stuff is. Also, Microsoft drops a bombshell on the Media Center enthusiast crowd. Media Center is now an add on software only on the Windows 8 Pro edition. John, Jim, and Dave are dropped into the Hunger Games arena to [...]
Category: Podcast, Windows Home Server
Review: Zalman VE200 External Hard Drive/Virtual Drive Enclosure
Guest post by forums member: ikon Zalman (http://www.zalman.com/eng/main.asp) is pretty well known for their computer accessories, particularly their CPU and GPU cooling products. Over the past few years they have expanded their line to include cases, power supplies, VGA cards, hard disk enclosures, and others. Recently, Zalman released a 2.5” hard drive enclosure that brings [...]
Category: Hard Drives, Home Server Storage, Review, Windows Home Server
BYOB Episode 83
We have a special guest, Michael Ross, filling in for Tim this week. Mr. Ross has some really impressive systems. We’ll also discuss his thoughts on media and cutting the cord. Its an All Mike episode on this weeks BYOB Podcast. Office PC My old P5B lasted me nearly 6 years with a minor upgrade [...]
Category: BYOB, Windows Home Server
The Home Server Show 179
There are those shows you remember and some you would rather forget. Episode 179 will not be forgotten by me due to two things. The first, Skype hates me, and two, Susan Bradley joined us for some conversation. It was hard for me to wrap the show because we all wanted to hear more from [...]
Category: Podcast, Windows Home Server
