By: John Stutsman After working with Intel’s NAS Performance Toolkit in testing the performance of the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer (“N40L”) and the HP ProLiant N54L MicroServer (“N54L”) I became curious to see how my HP Media Smart Server EX-487, which had been modified up from Stock, would perform compared to the MicroServer’s. Note: [...]
By: John Stutsman After posting Performance Comparison of Windows Server 2012 Essentials on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer I wanted to continue with similar performance tests of Windows Home Server 2011 (“WHS-2011”). The NAS Performance Toolkit (“NASPT”) v1.7.1 is the same test as described in the previous posting [...]
Kevin Schoonover joins the BYOB crew this week for an all rants n raves episode. Some new cloud storage services. PlayOn Cloud Storage – Two New Players Copy.com Bitcasa PlayOn Media Streaming – Re-Revisted PlayOn DLNA Service Router Woes I got the firewall blues. The ZyXell might be traded down for a more consumer [...]
By: John Stutsman One of the things I wanted to do with the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer was compare it’s performance to its predecessor HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer. In a previous writing I compared the rated performance of the CPU’s that showed the N54L scoring 43% higher than the N40L on benchmark tests accumulated [...]
By: John Stutsman We all want to know how our MicroServer’s and other Machines compare in performance and how this performance is impacted by different hardware, storage drives, OS’s, drive extender replacements, RAID configurations, etc. Dave, Chris, and I thought it would be useful to build a jumping off point (a Start Menu of [...]
This week on the BYOB Podcast Keyboards, IP cameras and Lenovo’s Tablet2 Human Interface Devices Logitech K400 Logitech MK520 Logitech next gen G series mice IP Home Cameras Mike’s review of the Smarthome 75790 Smarthome 75790 HooToo IP206 Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet2 Lenovo’s site Remember to post your comments on: www.homeservershow.com/forums or send us an [...]
Alex Piskarev, author of StableBit Scanner and Drivepool, joins Jim and myself to talk about StableBit Scanner and Drivepool. You would think we knew all there is to these add-ins for Windows Home Server but I learned a lot on this show! These interviews are both fun and informative and keep this podcast going strong. [...]
The HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer looks exactly like its predecessor HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer. I chose to wait on flashing the BIOS-MOD — electing instead to do some testing with the stock HP BIOS which, by-the-way, is the same as the stock BIOS ( #O41 July 29, 2011 – see Figure 10) that came [...]
I’ve got a full house for you on this episode. These guys are here to tell you about their own experiences with the different Drive Extender products that are on the market today. I’m talking about StableBit DrivePool, DriveBender, and Storage Spaces. We are not comparing anything to RAID on this one. It’s just about [...]
Light show this week, VUDU, UltraViolet, TMT 5, Insteon, Livescribe Sky Wifi Pen on this weeks BYOB Podcast. More HTPC – Sort of Vudu UltraViolet TotalMedia Theatre 5 Home Automation – Insteon Insteon Remotelinc 2 Dual Bank Switch Door Sensor Take notes WiFi Style Livescribe Sky Wifi Smartpen Low Budget Server Chassis – High Budget [...]
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