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Hands On: Icy Dock MB881US-1S-1 Docking Station

By on March 14, 2010 in Hard Drives and Storage Reviews, Hardware, Reviews, Storage

A docking station?  This is one product that I would never have considered an item to purchase.   I’m not sure why after checking this device out, as it seems to be a natural product to facilitate cycling of off-site backups of a WHS.

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Synology Announces the Official Release of DiskStation Manager 2.3 Firmware

By on March 13, 2010 in Network Attached Storage, News, Software

Some time ago, Terry wrote a post announcing the availability of a major update of Synology’s software platform DiskStation Manager 2.3 Beta.  Earlier this week, Synology announced the official non-Beta release of this update.

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Hands On: Plextor PX-128M1S 128GB Solid State Drive

By on March 13, 2010 in Hard Drives and Storage Reviews, Hardware, News, Reviews, windows 7, Windows Home Server

This is the continuation of SSD week for me.  A continuation in the form of the Plextor PX-128M1S 128GB 2-1/2” SSD.

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Thecus and Twonky Get Together for a DLNA Media-fest

By on March 12, 2010 in Network Attached Storage

Thecus have announced a new partnership with media server developers Twonky which will see the company’s TwonkyMedia Server pre-installed on Thecus’ N5500, N7700 series and N8800 network storage devices.

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Samsung Announces World’s First-Available 3D LED TV

By on March 11, 2010 in Hardware

Get set for the marketing onslaught as the big TV manufacturers make the case for you to switch to 3D.

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WHS Health

By on March 10, 2010 in Add-ins & Apps, Home Server Administration, WHS v1

WHS Health is a set of Web Pages formatted especially for viewing on the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The pages read the data from the health.xml file that is generated on your Home Server beginning with Power Pack 3, renders them into an easy to read format, and provides useful details about the state of your Windows Home Server.

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Add-In Update: WHS Health

By on March 10, 2010 in Add-ins & Apps, News

The guys over at Mediasmartserver.net released another update to their WHS Health add-in, bringing this add-in up to v1.0.0.13.

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HP MediaSmart Expander for TiVo Revealed

By on March 10, 2010 in Add-in News, Add-ins & Apps

How does HP MediaSmart Expander for TiVo work? Check out our screenshot gallery of the new add-in.

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HP Brings TiVo Integration to Windows Home Server

By on March 10, 2010 in Add-in News, Add-ins & Apps

New add-in for the MediaSmart Server enables TV Show transfer to and from TiVo, plus playback from the home server on any PC in the home.

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The “Tablet”, Are You Getting One?

By on March 9, 2010 in News

I have a folder in my IE Favorites titled “Sites to check for WGS news”  Sometimes I even open that folder and check out a few of the URLs.  Tonight, I opened that folder and clicked on eHomeUpgrade.  3 of the 4 most recent posts dealt with Tablets.

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