After over a year of uncertainty, Microsoft finally makes it official; Windows Home Server is no more. In a recently-released Windows Server 2012 Essentials FAQ, Microsoft says it’s “combining the features that were previously only found in Windows Home Server, such as support for DLNA-compliant devices and media streaming, into Windows Server 2012 Essentials and […]
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eBay Says Buy It Now To 100 Terabytes Of SSD Storage
Online auction giant eBay remedies their growing problem meeting I/O storage requirements with an investment in 100 terabytes of solid state disk storage. Manager of QA Systems Administration, Michael Craft, says “One rack [of SSD storage] is equal to eight or nine racks of something else.” eBay not only saves a considerable amount of physical […]
FreeNAS Version 8 — A First Look
As a member of a family of five who are all avid computer users, one of our growing problems has been sensibly managing an increasing amount of data. I’ve had our home wired with gigabit Ethernet for a while now, which makes the process of copying large files (such as video) from one computer to […]