Hardware finally! This week BYOB covers Haswell, Tonido Plug, and an iStar Server chassis. As a bonus We’ll discuss MediaBrowser3. Tonido Plug – Wah Wah Waaahh Sad trombone for the Tonido Plug. Rack That Chassis – iStar 2U D-213-MATX For $45 this was an good buy. Despite arriving half built. For the listed $85 it’s [...]
In part 1 of my review of the QNAP TS-269L I did the unboxing and initial setup here. In part 2 of my review I want to show you how easy it is to set up users and shares with the help of wizards that QNAP has created in their software. I will introduce you [...]
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 [...]
By: John Stutsman Last July, 2012, I wrote about how I Installed Windows Home Server 2011 on a 60GB SSD in a HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and using that as my primary home server. More recently in March, 2013, I wrote about Updating my Windows Home Server 2011 installed on the HP ProLiant N40L [...]
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 [...]
The Home Server Show Podcast is always looking for new storage hardware to try out and review for our listeners. While at CES 2013 Dave stopped by the QNAP booth and talked with them about their line of network attached storage (NAS) devices. QNAP has been generous enough to send us a 2-bay TS-269L Turbo [...]
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 [...]
Are you a digital hoarder? It’s ok, I am too. I’m trying to cut back in a few areas though and this is what we are talking about on 218. Christopher Lux joins in to discuss ways to reduce your hardware needs, and how to cut back on the files you are storing. There are [...]
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