A Frustrating Journey
I've been looking at the capabilities of the Synology NAS products by looking over the Synology DiskStation 212j. This time around I gave it a spin as an iSCSI target from Windows Home Server 2011. The goal is to have the Synology NAS accessed by WHS 2011 as a local drive. No additional software is needed, it's all built in. Read the rest »
I wrote about using Synology as a Time Machine backup destination in my previous article. This one will be about using the Synology Data Replicator 3 (DR3) software to backup my Windows PCs. Synology has a fairly large list of supported 3rd party backup applications, but DR3 is bundled with the Synology NAS so I'll give it a try. Read the rest »
I recently installed a Synology DS212j NAS and one of the first things I tested. Setting it up was easy and so far it's been working fine. I set things up initially using Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) 3.2 but then upgraded to the DSM 4 beta. Read the rest »
Configuring the Synology DiskStation Manager software to send notification through GMail or Google App Mail is a simple configuration. Read the rest »
The Synology DS212j NAS is at the low-end of the Synology DiskStation “Personal and Home Office” product line, at least among the models that support RAID. I decided to give it a look and this is my initial impression, having spent about a day working with it. Read the rest »
If your reading this on Jan 18th you know I’m not blacking out the site. While I agree SOPA & PIPA the only reason I see to blackout a site is to raise awareness and blacking out this site won’t do that. I suspect everybody who comes here will have heard of this if not actually visited a blacked out site. If not, and you want to learn more, here are some links with more information. A little old, but the Verge has a relatively short but informative article about [...] Read the rest »
A recent visitor came to this site looking for directions on how to move a Bento database to a new server. While I had related articles none covered this in one place. Now I have it in one article. Read the rest »
Amazon has the HP MicroServer 40L listed for $199.99 Read the rest »
I run a mixed Windows/Mac home and all my data resides on my Windows Home Server no matter whether it's Windows or Mac. This means my iPhoto library, iTunes library, Aperture library are all on my Windows Home Server. I recently noticed that these libraries were saving deleted files forever. Here's why. Read the rest »
The Acer Aspire AH342 Home Server is one of the few Windows Home Servers still available for retail sale in the US. It's a WHS V1 server and Newegg has been had them at clearance prices recently. Since it's old software it's not a simple out-of-the-box experience so I had one pass through my hands recently. I updated the WHS V1 on the server and got things going. I also had a chance to do some quick benchmarking and hardware testing. Read the rest »