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 [...]
A couple of years ago I tried using PlayOn to stream media to my my devices. I always thought the concept was good but back then, I had many issues getting things to work correctly. I do not remember all the details only that it would consistently disconnect, lock up my system, and was generally [...]
I crawled out from underneath my rock and found out how popular this Hunger Games stuff is. Also, Microsoft drops a bombshell on the Media Center enthusiast crowd. Media Center is now an add on software only on the Windows 8 Pro edition. John, Jim, and Dave are dropped into the Hunger Games arena to [...]
Adam Thursby joins the podcast and we will talk about moving data from one PC to a Windows Home Server 2011 box and we’ll try not to lose any data in the process. We also go over backups and redundancy options for Adam. A little bit of news as well. Enjoy. Audio experimentation continues with [...]
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 [...]
SkyDrive on mobile, the ESXi saga begins, Fractal Define R3 case, HTC Titan/Focus S/iPhone4S/Skyrocket comments, Xbox has a new console and Cord cutting has a setback. Its BYOB show 71. SkyDrive Tim reviews SkyDrive for iOS and Michael does the same for WP7 ESXi the other VM white meat Mike begins his exploration into ESXi [...]
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 [...]
Bleeding edge SSDs from OCZ? Michael discusses his desire to cut the cord, with some discussion on why and how to achieve total independence. All on this week’s on the BYOB Podcast. New SSDs from OCZ OCZ Indilinx based Octane SSDs Engadget link OCZ Z-Drive Z4 Enterprise SSD Cutting the Cord Antenna – Monoprice has [...]
Every once in a while you run into a product that you just blows you away. Not so much that it is technologically superior in every way, but rather because it builds on a great idea and makes it easier, better, and cheaper. The new Logitech Link is just one of those products. Most HTPC/HT [...]
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