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BYOB Podcast 74

BYOB Podcast 74

This week we comment on what CES 2012 had to offer. Thunderbolt, Highpoint hybrid RAID, Fractal & LianLi, Passive 3D, Smart TVs and Ceton Q and Echo. What’s up with Netflix? On this weeks BYOB Podcast CES 2012 Western Digital My Book Thunder bolt Synology NAS or is it a SAN? Highpoint RocketHybrid RAID controller [...]

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The Home Server Show 169

The Home Server Show 169

It’s the first podcast after returning from CES 2012 and we have a wrap for you.  Don’t worry though, we keep the CES talk short because there are other matters to attend to.  Windows 8 and Storage Spaces.  We dive deep into a blog post about Windows 8 and how the new Storage Spaces works.  [...]

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BYOB Episode 73

BYOB Episode 73

Data Recovery, Encryption, and Hard Drives.  Tonight we have the pleasure of being joined by Scott Moulton owner/founder of myharddrivedied.com.  We had a blast and learned an incredible amount about data recovery, hard drives, SSDs, and encryption.  We would like to thank Scott for spending time with us and for doing a fantastic job educating [...]

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The Home Server Show 168

The Home Server Show 168

On the road again.  Jim Skype’d in from the road and John and I try to hold it together while we discuss the week’s storage news and give a preview of all we will cover at CES 2012.  Look for more information on CES coverage here on the blog, forums, and on Twitter. Sponsor: MozyPro [...]

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SkyDrive–AllwaySync

SkyDrive–AllwaySync

In a recent conversation with Jim Collision on the benefits of using AllwaySync, he pointed out after reading the feature list for AllwaySync, that it contained integration into SkyDrive.  Something I had missed despite being a heavy user for years.  As you know, SkyDrive gives you 25 Gigs of storage, but offers very few tools [...]

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BYOB Episode 72

BYOB Episode 72

2011 Tech Faves, Tim’s server woes, Mike’s ESXi update, Michael’s Crossfire, AMD 7970 specs released, facebook client, AppRap. Diehard helps fill in on this weeks BYOB Podcast. Sponsor: MozyPro Online Backup: Simple, Automatic & Secure Backup http://mozy.com/pro   AMD 7970 is a beast! [H]ardOCP PCPerspective AnandTech 1 AnandTech 2 Mike’s ESXi Update Michael’s R6970 Adventure [...]

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Review: Crossfire MSI R6970 Lighting

Review: Crossfire MSI R6970 Lighting

I’ve been looking to beef up the performance of my gaming machine. Patiently I waited for the new offerings from AMD & nVidia. AMD finally coughed up the 7970 which will MSRP for $550. Ouch! nVidia’s offering is too far away right now. Given that a single 7970 wasn’t going to cut it for my [...]

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The Home Server Show 167

The Home Server Show 167

The Home Server Show crew has a special treat for you as we say goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012.  John, Jim, and Dave discuss some news for the first half and then Jim and DVN interview the developer of the Drobo for WHS add-in.  It’s a good listen even if your a Drobo [...]

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BYOB Episode 71

BYOB Episode 71

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 [...]

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The Home Server Show 166

The Home Server Show 166

Microservers, CES and Microsoft, hard drives, and more.  We tried to keep this pre-Christmas episode short for you.  See you after the holidays and we wish you all a Merry Christmas. It was a rocky start to this episode! Google+ video let us down and audio issues plagued us from the beginning. It turned out [...]

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