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 [...]
In a recent conversation with Jim Collision on the benefits of using AllwaySync, he pointed out after reading the feature list for AllwaySync, that it contained integration into SkyDrive. Something I had missed despite being a heavy user for years. As you know, SkyDrive gives you 25 Gigs of storage, but offers very few tools [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This week we have a special guest on the BYOB. We spend some time talking to Dean Roddey from Charmed Quark Systems. As Chairman, founder, and CTO of the company, Dean walks us through the capabilities of his software and key differentiators between CQC and the competition. We only touch the surface of its capabilities, [...]
x79 systems worth it? tinkertry.com’s Paul Braren joins us in the discussion and tells us about a few of his builds and his VPN using Hamachi on this weeks BYOB Podcast. x79 is in…but leaves nothing for the powers users Underwhelmed by the massive processing power along with heat & power consumption. LGA2011 chips while [...]
RAID5 expansion, server Anti-Virus, printing tips, Gigabyte’s 3d UEFI interface and LAN optimizer. This week on The BYOB Podcast. RAID Expansion, Yes its possible! Mike comments on his recent RAID expansion. Forum discussion Do you run AV software on your server? Want to? Anti-virus – AVG File server version Learn to print like a pro [...]
When the developers preview of Windows 8 came out, I download and installed it in a couple of different VM systems. Because I was running it not only in a VM, but I had to operate through remote desktop, the navigation experience turned out to be a bit less than desirable. I had some extra [...]
This week our guest is Greg Welch (Welchworks). We go over his extensive and impressive home network that include WHS servers, Hyper-V virtual machines, HTPCs, Home Automation and more on this weeks BYOB Podcast. Remember you can view this show at: http://www.livestream.com/byobpodcast Join us on “livestream” next Monday at 8:00 PM (pacific time) for BYOB [...]
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