Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Cooling and Graphics from the HP MicroServer

John Stutsman has released 2 more videos detailing his antics with his HP MicroServer’s. In his first vid John adds fans to cool the heat sink on the Gen8: In this video I mount 4 Evercool 30x30x7mm EC3007M12CA fans on the CPU Heat Sink on my HP ProLiant Gen8 MicroServer. In addition to the 4 […]

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Home Gadget Geeks Episode 178

Episode 178 of Home Gadget Geeks podcast has information on cloud storage sync, Home Server Connect Help, Hard Drive Deals and info on OneNote: MVP John Zajdler (@Dieharder) and Kevin Schoonover (@schoondoggy1979) joins Jim (@jcollison) for show #178 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com/ community. We […]

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Add-In: My Movies for Windows – Home and Essentials v5.10 Pre Release 2

The pre-release version of My Movies for Windows – Home and Essentials is now at version 5.10 Version 5.10 Pre Release has the following change logs: 5.10 Pre Release 2: There were some parts of the new movie features that were not visible, as they were not correctly inserted in all pages after having been […]

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Synology Devices Running DSM 4 Compromised

Twitter user Mike Evangelist (‏@MikeEvangelist) posted the following on August 3rd:  Lovely. My @Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling itself Synolocker. Not what I wanted to do today. The CryptoLocker deviation attacks Synology NAS devices by scanning the hard drives and encrypting the data. The only way of decrypting it is to pay […]

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The Seagate 6TB Hard Drive

With all the news of WD’s 6TB Red hard drives, its quite easy to forget about the other hard drive producer Seagate, and their 6TB monster: •World’s fastest 6TB nearline hard drives •10× the workload rating of desktop drives •High reliability with an MTBF of 1.4M hours on all drives •12Gb/s SAS and SATA 6Gb/s […]

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Western Digital Red 4TB and 6TB Hard Drives Reviewed

Want to know how the Western Digital Red 6TB hard drives perform? If you do then We Got Served has reviewed the WD Red 6TB NAS Hard Drive (WD60EFRX) whilst PC Perspective have reviewed that same drive as well as the Red Pro 4TB too. It’s great to see Western Digital expand the capacities of […]

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WD Announce 5TB and 6TB Red Hard Drives

Western Digital have announced the Red NAS hard drives in 5TB and first to market 6TB capacity drives, along with a Red Pro series. The WD Red 3.5-inch hard drives are now shipping in 1 TB to 6 TB capacities; and the new WD Red Pro 3.5-inch hard drives which are ideal for medium to […]

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Add-In: Drive Bender v2.1.5.0

Version 2.1.5.0 of Drive  Bender has been released with the following change log: [u] Improved the way Drive Bender attempts to recover from mount errors. [u] Mounting a drive letter mount point is much faster. [e] Added option to delay the drive online/offline notification. If the drives have reconnected before the period expires, no notifications […]

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Add-In: StableBit Scanner v1.0.6.2636 Release Final

StableBit Scanner have released version 1.0.6.2636 Release Final for the original version of Windows Home Server (v1). Continuously scans all of your hard drives, ensuring that every precious bit remains readable.It also monitors the on-disk SMART health parameters at all times and informs you at the first sign of trouble. If problems occur it tells […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 265

Episode 265 of the Home Server podcast is about working in the cloud: It’s all cloud all the time!  Jim Collison has his cloud list out and I sit back and enjoy the show! Well, I can’t sit back too much.  I’m talking @otixo and Surface Pro 3. You can find this weeks episode here.