Slow news week for Windows Home Server enthusiasts but there is plenty of talk about Synology and Windows 8 Storage Spaces. Greg Welch, aka @WelchWerks, joins us to talk about his atypical “Home” server and it’s role in his household. @Dieharder takes a week off and @jcollison needs a tissue. All this pfSense, Untangle, a [...]
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 [...]
There was plenty to see and do at CES 2012 but one of the booth tours that I really enjoyed was the Synology booth. Here is a quick video of the DSM 4 Beta walkthrough. If you own a Synology box you too can try out the new beta. Check here for more information. Remember [...]
The Synology DSM 4.0 beta. You saw the Home Server Show crew bring it to you first. You have read the blogs, seen the dead links, seen the “coming soon” links and now the 4.0 beta is ready to download! Jump to this page to get started. We have also added a dedicated section to [...]
Here are some of the highlights of day 1 one at CES. Make sure you check out Part 2 for some case action. Thunderbolt. WD showed off their 6T x 4 (24T) Thunderbolt setup. Each box is configured in a RAID 0, and all 4 boxes are RAIDED via Thunderbolt. Check out the benchmarks. Video [...]
Synology is displaying their new DSM at CES 2012 and they hinted towards a public beta that should be coming out very soon. I was able to get a good look at the new DSM and it looks like a fantastic refresh of the product. Disk Station Management is the GUI application that runs [...]
The Home Server Show unplugged. No Ads. No intro. Just talk. Rich from Rich’s Random Podcast Generator joins Jim and myself for a little chat. Don’t miss the ending. Happy Thanksgiving. Jim’s new PC, hopefully iHomeServer Drobo pairs up with Pogoplug for 10G of Free Storage ioSafe new product Watch HSS on YouTube lDisk update [...]
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. [...]
I recently received the Synology DS712+ to review and I’m kicking of the process with a proper un-boxing. I open up the box for the first time on video and got a little surprise in the process. Enjoy the un-boxing and stay tuned for more on the DS712+. For more information on the DS712+ check [...]
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, [...]
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