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 [...]
It’s another week about the future. Windows 8 and what it means to file systems, storage, and home servers. We go over Storage Spaces in detail with Mike Faucher of the BYOB Podcast. Lots of chat with zero news. We dive right in! Enjoy Sponsor: GoToMeeting with HD Faces makes it easy to collaborate online [...]
We are back with a ton of news. Windows 8 and Storage Spaces are both still popular items for the week. There are also a lot of software updates to talk about. Apple releases the new iPad but we will save that for the end of the show and only spend a couple of minutes [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
The Synology product line offers Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance devices varying from one to twelve drive bays with personal and rack mountable models. While the core feature is NAS, the devices also provide a number of other useful features through the DiskStation Manager operating system such as media sharing (DLNA), iTunes media server, surveillance, [...]
Another company releases yet another network attached storage device. You have heard it before right? This time it’s Synology and they have a sweet scaling option for you. It’s the DS712+. It’s a two bay NAS that has everything except running water. It has dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and runs Synology’s Hybrid RAID, [...]
One of hot topics of recent was the release of the new Lian-Li EX-503B which in essence, is a multi-drive external storage box. Realizing that many people including me are looking for different solutions to back up their servers, I was very intrigued by this particular device. Why you ask, well, several reasons. For starters [...]
Your DS211+ will come with a free PC backup software. In this article I’ll be going over installation, backups, and restores with that software, Synology Data Replicator 3. I’ll also look at backing up your Mac and using the Windows Home Server with the DS211+. PC Backups Simple install of the 32 bit program. The [...]
How safe is your data once it’s on the DS211+. I can compete with the best when it comes to destroying data. I’m not going to pop a drive out and say wow, “the data is still on the other drive.” Oh no, I’ve devised a crazy, real world, or perhaps un-real world, scenario that [...]
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