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BPU-340SAS SATA/SAS Backplane RAID Cage

November 1, 2008 0

For many years, the role of a backplane was primarily in the server environment. With home computing and server environments becoming intertwined the roles of devices like this are becoming skewed. Backplanes are no longer just for SCA SCSI devices and are now being found more and more in other arenas as SCSI is no longer the king. SATA/SAS has taken the performance per dollar championship. iStarUSA thinks they might have the answer to the industry's needs with the BPU-340SAS RAID Cage.

Keep Track of Your Bandwidth Usage with WHS

October 16, 2008 7

Most of us have heard about Comcast’s new bandwidth restrictions. Comcast has set a hard limit, finally, to their bandwidth usage for customers at a static 250GB per month. These are limits that were previously not in place and there is an easy way to keep an eye on your usage.

Nvidia Drivers Break Remote Desktop

September 19, 2008 31

Many XP users have been blaming Service Pack 3 for breaking remote desktop connections to their machines. I, for one, have been unable to RDC into my Windows XP machine since the upgrade to Service Pack 3 as well. However, the issue isn’t with Service Pack 3 at all! Nvidia is at fault!

Turning your WHS into a Free Proxy Server

September 18, 2008 20

There are more uses for your WHS then you can shake a stick at; whatever that may mean. The latest endeavor is using your Windows Home Server as an Internet Proxy. I personally use my Windows Home Server as a proxy to be able to view sites that my company blocks access to. Setting up a proxy can also allow …

Change the Name of Your Hard Drives WHS

September 15, 2008 6

People like to customize things. With that said, I ran across an individual that had an issue with his WHS. He imaged his existing hard drive to a larger hard drive, but was left with the original disk name in the Windows Home Server Console. This poses no problems, but is more of an annoyance than anything. If you want …

Restoring Windows Firewall on WHS

September 14, 2008 13

I recently ran into a situation where I was having some issues with the Windows Firewall on my Windows Home Server, so I did what I though would help me solve my issues. If you open the options for the Windows Firewall on your Windows Home Server, there is an advanced tab with an option to “Restore Defaults.” I figured …

FileZilla FTP Server on WHS

September 10, 2008 63

Creating an FTP server on your Windows Home Server can prove to be very advantageous. There are many times when using the web interface just doesn’t seem practical. Also, you are no longer limited to how many people have the ability to upload and download from your WHS.

WHS as a Free Email Server

September 9, 2008 20

Setting up your Windows Home Server as an Email Server is fast, easy, and best of all; it is totally FREE! The best part about is that you can use your Microsoft given WHS hostname as your email address (yourname@xxxx.homeserver.com).

Eagle Consus N-Series External Enclosure

August 1, 2008 0

My latestdventure (you will read about it soon) left me with a few SATA hard drives lying around. With those drives came a great opportunity to incorporate them into an off site storage solution. That being said, I absolutely must do this with some style. Enter the Eagle Tech Consus N-Series Sata to USB enclosure.

Hitachi Desktar 7K1000

November 21, 2007 0

I have been around for a while, and when Western Digital decided to send me their 500 GB hard drive; I drooled. Then Seagate came out with their 750 GB drive; I got goose bumps. Now, Hitachi decided to realign my particles with their 1TB SATA II hard disk drive (HDS721010KLA330); man this thing smells good. Yeah, if you didn't catch that, I said 1TB... that's 1000 GB! Well... technically it's only 931.51GB, but they measure in decimal not binary.