Reviews

For a number of years now we have been living with “central” A/C-Heating system in our home. Naturally, our place came with the generic thermostat that could only be controlled by standing in front of it and flicking the switch, (which is especially annoying at 3am when you’re freezing). Last year at the CES show [...]

  Synology’s 2-bay NAS units have consistently performed well in our tests. Today we are looking at the latest offering from the company, the DS213+, a high performance 2-bay NAS full-featured storage solution for small and medium businesses.

2012 is almost upon us and one company that isn’t afraid to suggest “bring it on” is Synology. The company unveiled a pair of new DiskStation NAS servers that include the DS212+ and the DS212. Both of the new Network Attached Storage devices are dual-bay units with the DS212+ aiming at small and medium business [...]

We all make time to take funny, quirky and memorable photos with our cellphones, party cameras, professional looking all cool when traveling cameras, but then what?… we typically store all these images onto an external hard drive or network storage device, perhaps upload a few onto facebook and flickr but ultimately we frequently forget about [...]

At Home Server Land we like to stay current with the latest gadgets and helpful robotics for the home. We have done a number of reviews on automated vacuums i.e. iRobot Roomba and Neato XV-11, but now it was time to bring home something for the hardwood floors, in comes: Mint 4200 Hard floor cleaner [...]

At the end of last year, when HP released their new Proliant MicroServer, they once and for all put an end to the stereotype of servers being big and noisy racks of power hungry machinery. HP has put the “Micro” in the title for a reason; this server truly packs the power but not the [...]

Gone are the good old days when neighbors could leave their front doors unlocked overnight, or windows open to breeze out the rooms while you’re at work during the day. In fact, these days we use multiple locks on our doors, security alarms, and high tech security cameras pointing in all directions for 24hour surveillance. [...]

Not too long ago, Paul McFedries supplied us with an excellent 800 page reference manual “Windows Home Server Unleashed” for a then newly released Windows Home Server product. The book was an superb compilation of not only Windows Home Server topics but also included a primer and how-to on home networking.