New Gallup Studio, Gen 8 Microserver, Erasing Data on Hard Drives, Audio Quality with Skype, New Home Automation Options – HT156

Windows Home Server MVP John Zajdler(@Dieharder), John Stutsman (@JohnStutsman) and Kevin Schoonover (@schoondoggy1979) joins Jim (@jcollison) and for show #156 of Home Tech Podcast brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com/ community.

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HP Gen 8 Microserver

HP ProLiant 712318-001 Ultra Micro Tower Server – 1 x Intel Pentium G2020T 2.50 GHz by HP http://amzn.com/B00DDXS936

John’s Processor Upgrade – Intel Xeon E3-1265LV2 2.50 GHz Processor – Socket H2 LGA-1155 by Intel http://amzn.com/B0085SFZQ8

Lots of Gen 8 Discussions at http://homeservershow.com/forums

HP Smart Array P222/512 FBWC 6Gb 1-Port Internal/1-Port External SAS Controller 631667-B21 by HP http://amzn.com/B007LBJGY2

Getting rid of Hard Drives

Seagate Seatools –  http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-win-master/

Acronis True Image 2014 (DVD) by Acronis http://amzn.com/B00EFRMDW2

Kill Disk http://www.killdisk.com/dod.htm

DBan  http://www.dban.org/

http://myharddrivedied.com/

Audio Quality with Skype

Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920, 1080p Widescreen Video Calling and Recording by Logitech http://amzn.com/B006JH8T3S

Blue Microphones Yeti USB Microphone by Blue Microphones http://amzn.com/B002VA464S

Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone by Audio Technica http://amzn.com/B004QJOZS4

Cyber Frontiers

http://theaverageguy.tv/2014/02/18/cyber-frontiers-exploring-cyber-security-big-data-and-the-technologies-shaping-the-future-through-an-academic-perspective-cf001/

The Rest

http://theaverageguy.tv/2014/02/17/hands-on-review-of-the-5-in-1-ravpower-filehub-wireless-sd-card-reader-with-3000mah-backup-battery-wireless-mobile-storage-media-sharing-wlan-hot-spot-nas-file-server/

Smart things – http://smartthings.com/

Finally, one simple solution to unify all your brand name “smart home” and lifestyle devices. It’s a single automated experience worth getting giddy over!

SmartThings Home Kit by SmartThings http://amzn.com/B00EORV53G

Revolv – http://revolv.com/

Finally, one simple solution to unify all your brand name “smart home” and lifestyle devices. It’s a single automated experience worth getting giddy over!


Revolv Smart Home Automation Solution
by Revolv http://amzn.com/B00EWJQ9PK


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