Short show this week, but we pack it full of hardware info. PCs on a Stick, AMD Trinity update, nVidia releases the GTX 670 Kepler GPU, Dirt cheap hi-res monitors? Server issues all around, Mike & Mike talk about their hard drive server issues on this weeks BYOB Podcast. Is That A PC In Your [...]
Special Guest Chris Barnes from the DMZ podcast thEndUsr joins us to discuss his systems. We’ll also tackle nVidia’s GTX690. Amazon plays me too with their cloud drive. Playon is told to move on. Welcome to Episode 85 of the BYOB Podcast. Special Guest – Chris Barnes Chris Barnes is host to the thEndUsr Podcast [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
nVida GTX680, AMD Opteron, and a whole bunch off SSD talk on this weeks BYOB Podcast Cheap Server CPU – Yes Please! AMD has introduced a new line of CPU products aimed more at the business server crowd but still worth looking at for those of us wanting mini-me business systems at home. The Opteron [...]
In the first part, I performance tested the parity volume to see how it stacked up against a hardware RAID. Now that we have seen the huge performance impact of parity volumes, it was now time to see how the Mirroring as well as the stripe-JBOD (drives are striped with no resiliency) performed. Original article [...]
Ever since I got back from CES I have been waiting for this controller card. The thought of mixing some SSD’s with hard drives seemed exciting to me. I realize that the Z68 performs many of the same features but what attracted me most was this card could be used on any motherboard, as well [...]
eVGA SRX motherboard, Zenbook, The new iPAD, the new Apple TV, SSD Caching with Highpoint’s new card, on Episode 81 of the BYOB Podcast. Big board, Big money eVGA’s new dual socket LGA-2011 Motherboard. For the truly hardcore, and the rest of us dreamers. Next Gen thin and light – Asus Zenbook Michael reviews the [...]
Recently I did some testing and a short video on Storage Spaces in Windows 8. Although very easy to use, the performance was not very impressive. I wanted to see if both the process, as well as the results would be the same under the new Server 8. Link to Windows 8 article: Storage Spaces [...]
Tonight we talk to John Wills (aka jmwills from the forums) about his setup, networking overseas, and of course Windows 8. We are joined by John Zajdler for the second half of the show to discuss Storage Spaces and other topics. A special thanks to John W. for joining us tonight. Watch us on Livestream [...]
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