Tag: Seagate

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What to Do When Your Hard Drive Warranty Replacement Is Out of Stock

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If your warranty replacement is out of stock, ask support for a ship estimate and an equivalent drive they can send now. Then decide how long your storage can safely wait. If a failed disk has left your NAS with reduced redundancy, check that your backups are usable and make a plan to replace the disk while the warranty claim is open. Ask what support can ship and when Have your claim number, drive model and capacity, serial number, and tracking handy. If you’ve already sent the drive, confirm support has logged it as received. Then ask these three questions:

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First Look at the Surface 2, Xbox Music, Using Windows Azure with Windows Server 2012 Essentials, My Server 2012 Apps, Seagate and Netgear NAS – HT145

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Jim (@jcollison) has guests Windows Home Server MVP John Zajdler (@Dieharder) and Andrew Morris(@unrealshots) for show #145 of the Home Tech Podcast brought to you by the Average Guy Network.  Jim is back from the MVP Summit 2013 on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA and spends some time going over a video review of… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Your Movie Library on the Go – A First Look at the Seagate GoFlex Satellite Wireless Hard Drive Review

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Part I – Seagate GoFlex Satellite First Impressions Over the years our digital libraries have grown quite large. The accumulation of audio, video and picture files prevents any one portable device from being able to store it all. In my case, I have over 350 GB of Music and Videos in my iTunes library and over 3 TB of Recorded TV and Movie backups on my Windows Home Sever 2011. When preparing for a trip with the kids, I would copy various movies and TV shows from my iTunes library to the different devices I have trying to spread out

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The Ins and Outs of the Modern Hard Drive, Outtake Conversation at the End – HT126

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Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Andrew Morris (@unrealshots), Christian Johnson, Renny Phipps(@rennyphipps) and  Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW.com for Home Tech episode #126 What is the status of the modern hard drive?  We will cover what we own, how we fix them, SSD v Spinners, WD Reds v Greens, do faster drives matter, where… Click for more / Podcast Player>