Tag: Drobo

The Home Server Show 170

The Home Server Show 170

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 [...]

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The Home Server Show 167

The Home Server Show 167

The Home Server Show crew has a special treat for you as we say goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012.  John, Jim, and Dave discuss some news for the first half and then Jim and DVN interview the developer of the Drobo for WHS add-in.  It’s a good listen even if your a Drobo [...]

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The Home Server Show 162

The Home Server Show 162

The Home Server Show unplugged.  No Ads.  No intro.  Just talk.  Rich from Rich’s Random Podcast Generator joins Jim and myself for a little chat. Don’t miss the ending.  Happy Thanksgiving. Jim’s new PC, hopefully iHomeServer Drobo pairs up with Pogoplug for 10G of Free Storage ioSafe new product Watch HSS on YouTube lDisk update [...]

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The Home Server Show 161

The Home Server Show 161

Wow, it’s a week full of storage news and we try to cover it all.  Dave shares his dislike for certain colors, Jim is still on a mission for the perfect mini home server, and John digs  up every news item possible for this podcast.  John also provides for some good laughs at the end.  [...]

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The Home Server Show 159

The Home Server Show 159

We are here to announce a new add-in for Windows Home Server 2011 but a simple mention of “Drive Extender” leads us down the path of talking about Drive Bender and StableBit for quite some time.  We hit the news and it’s not all home server this week.  There is so much in this episode [...]

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WHS Drobo Status Add-In for Windows Home Server 2011

WHS Drobo Status Add-In for Windows Home Server 2011

Guest post by: Ross Dargan I have always loved Microsoft’s Windows Home Server and sing its praises whenever possible; however with the most recent version Microsoft decided to remove what I always thought was one of the best features – the drive extender! Drobo as a product is a perfect fit for this gap. The [...]

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The Home Server Show 156

The Home Server Show 156

There is always something to talk about even when the week is slow with Windows Home Server news.  Cloudberry is back in the news as well as Drobo.  A challenge has been thrown down!  Jim needs help building his Windows Home Server 2011 and he starts with the case.  A little bit of iOS and [...]

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The Drobo / WHS Add-in Challenge

The Drobo / WHS Add-in Challenge

Jim recently spent some time with Mario Blandini of Drobo at the offices in San Jose, CA.  The Podcast can be heard here at theAverageGuy.tv. During the podcast, Jim threw down a challenge to the Windows Home Server Community to produce an add-in that works with managing Drobo devices on WHS 2011.  Mario and Drobo [...]

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The Home Server Show 151

The Home Server Show 151

A super slow news week makes way for Angry Jim.  Not Angry Birds, Angry Jims.  We go over the weeks news and give away a Drobo S live on the air.  Instead of drawing a name out of the bowl we decided to draw 5, and then draw until there was a winner.  It was [...]

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Win a Drobo S with the Home Server Show!

Win a Drobo S with the Home Server Show!

So you have heard us talking about them, now you can win one! The Drobo S is the world’s most advanced USB 3.0 array. In addition to blazing fast transfer speeds for creative professionals and small businesses, the all-new Drobo S features USB 3.0 technology that delivers the most expandable, future-proof solution available today. Drobo [...]

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