Last show of 2012! We have a special guest with us today. Gavin Campbell is going to share his virtual server. Michael has updated his virtual server as well. It the Virtual edition of the BYOB Podcast. Gavin Campbell – @gavin_campbell Gavin Campbell’s VM setup: Hyper-V Server OS: Windows Hyper-V 2012 Server Core Motherboard: ASRock [...]
This week on the BYOB Podcast we are joined by John Stutsman, He’ll update us on his recent hardware experiences. The Failure of Storage Spaces, Tunneling with unTangle, Corsair 550D debacle. Michel’s new server is a nightmare. Cord Cutting update. John Stutsman – Joe_Miner Here’s some of John’s recent articles. A Server Build with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s no secret that Home Server Show uses ioSafe gear and now there are 3,000,000,000,000 (or 3,298,534,883,328) more reasons to get one for yourself! ioSafe has announced their rugged waterproof and fireproof external drive in a 3 Terabyte version. The SoloPRO will have both eSATA and USB 3.0 enabling fast transfer of your most precious [...]
Newegg.com has the WD MyBook external 3TB drive on sale for a limited time. It’s a single drive with USB 3.0 and 2.0 and is priced cheaper than what you can purchase the drive for by itself as an internal drive. Although, it doesn’t come with the RAID/Adapter card. Check the reviews on it. Some [...]
If you ever find you need extra storage for your WHS, one of the cool things you can do is add an external hard drive. If you’re a beginner and aren’t comfortable adding an internal drive, an easy solution is adding an external drive and here’s how. This is another post in the WHS-101 Series. [...]
ioSafe teased us with partial images of their new product and they have finally released the goods to us! This is the ioSafe Rugged Portable. Machined from a solid billet of aluminum or titanium it will house a traditional hard drive or SSD drive. It’s full suspension technology will help it survive drops to the [...]
Icy Dock is at it again with RAID. This time it’s an external box that will hold two 3.5” drives, 3 RAID modes, and 4 different ways to access it. USB 2.0, eSATA, Firewire 400, and Firewire 800. Icy Dock is proud to introduce its upgrade version of the dual bay RAID enclosure that set [...]
This week we on BYOB. Seagate’s 2.5” 1.5TB USB 3.0 Portable HDD. At $330 is it worth? Mike reviews the ThermalTake BlacX 5G. Tim steps up to the big boy toys and talks about the planning for his 1366 & 775 Corsair/eVGA builds. The BYOB crew weighs in on Michael’s budget gaming rig for his [...]
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