The LaCie 5big Office+ comes with Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials and website Hardware.Info has a review of it. In their 10 page review the performance and energy consumption are taken a look at as well as the disk partition scheme and the software itself. You can find it here.
Newegg are offering the Windows Home Server 2011 software for $39.99 instead of their normal $59.99. As well as saving by using the coupon code EMCNENB246 (with free shipping) Newegg are also offering a free $10 promotional gift card with the purchase. Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 64-bit OEM System Builder But hurry as the [...]
Episode 85 of the BYOB podcast is up: “Special Guest Chris Barnes from the DMZ podcast thEndUsr joins us to discuss his systems. We’ll also tackle nVidia’s GTX690. Amazon plays me too with their cloud drive. Playon is told to move on. Welcome to Episode 85 of the BYOB Podcast.” You can find episode 85 [...]
UK based Tranquil PC are celebrating their 10th year and to celebrate you can save money when you place your next order. So what’s the deal? You get 10% of any order you place on line, during May 2012 by using the coupon code 10THSPECIAL10 during checkout BUT if you order online before May 10th [...]
Your weekly dose of The Home Server Show podcast is available with episode 181 just being published: “The Home Server Crew is back and we have a marathon for you. There was plenty to cover since we missed a week. We have a lot of media related news and gadgets to talk about but the [...]
Drive Bender are offering a limited time 50% discount on their Home Edition of their Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users. The Home Edition of Drive Bender plus life time support and maintenance normally costs $40 but the 50% discount lowers this to just $20. Hurry and grab this bargain from here. The [...]
Small Business Server enthusiast Robert Pearman has written an eBook on migrating to SBS 2011 Essentials. Priced at £2.99 the eBook takes you step by step on migrating to SBS 2011 Essentials from SBS 2003 R2. Starting from preparing your source server to finalizing the migration with network cleanup, its an excellent read for those [...]
Episode 84 of the BYOB podcast is up, and this week: “Z77, Ivy Bridge, Windows 8 talk, SplashTop, and Cloud Drives. Tonight we have some in depth discussions on the new Ivy Bridge CPU’s and the Z77 chipsets. We also hash out some differences on the various cloud drives such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, and G [...]
If you have one of Western Digital’s Caviar Green HDDs then the drives Intellipark technology parks the drives heads and turn off unnecessary electronics after 8 seconds of inactivity to help save power. But the only problem with this is that some software and OS’s are incompatible with the Intellipark feature causing endless head parking [...]
Drive Bender have an extended trial key available which allows you to trial their Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users until the 1st July. If you also have tried Drive Bender in the past and wish to try it again, or simply want to extend your current trial period, just use this key: [...]
