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 [...]
Chris B. is using the external drive that I recommended way back in December. Take a look at the drive in action! Chris Says: “I do wish that it would work without external power like the Samsung drive can.” “But, I probably would have still ordered the HP even if it would have known about [...]
At CES 2o1o, a couple of us Home Server Show guys (Dave and I) had the opportunity to hang out with the folks from ioSafe for a demo of the almost total destruction of one of their new SSD external drives. If you are new to ioSafe products, their Solo line is a rugged external [...]
After watching Dave burn his “evaluation” drive from ioSafe, I knew I had to have one. No, I’m not going to burn mine, but I am going to install it on my Home Server as a back up drive and use it to store copies of my files and PC backups. Safely and soundly. I [...]
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