Hardware

Hot on the heels of the newly released Tranquil PC Leo HS4 running Windows Home Server 2011, Tranquil PC announced a super-duper fun giveaway for ya!

Having kept their development under wraps, Tranquil PC now opened up about their soon to be released next generation home server, the Le0 HS4. This will be a four bay, Intel Core i3-powered server with the newly released Windows Home Server 2011 software on board.

Apple gave us computers, gave us phones, and now its Apple TV time. When the concept of Apple TV first surfaced, it was a large belief that Apple TV will not be much more than a fad to this computer and phone mogul.

Now that Windows Home Server 2011 is at our doorstep hardware manufacturers are getting a jump on releasing new machines to power the Windows Home Server movement.

As the Windows Home Server 2011 software is hitting the streets, hardware manufacturers such as Acer are on top of their game in their release of the Acer RevoCenter geared for WHS 2011.

Western Digital has shown their awareness at the exponentially increasing need for storage by boosting the new MyBook Studio Edition II, a twin drive external storage unit up to 6TB. The device can easily be connected via USB 2.0, eSATA plus Firewire 800 and 400 connectors.

In part 1 of our hands-on LaCie 5big Backup Server review we covered the hardware specifications, unboxing and our first impressions. In part 2 we learn more about the 5big Backup Server and cover the pre-installed Add-ins and LaCie software applications designed to help make recovery and backup restore easier.

Back in 1995 the hard disk drive market was saturated with as many as 15 major competitors, but through acquisitions and mergers over the past nearly two decades that number has been reduced well under ten players. The announcement of the newest acquisition, that of Hitachi disk-drive unit by Western Digital contributes to the closing [...]