Isn’t there a saying somewhere similar to “you can never have enough stuff”? I think that could probably be related to storage as well. And by storage I mean a place to put your digital keepsakes. A digital attic of sorts. It wasn’t too long ago that I ventured into building an upgraded Windows Home […]

I’m a digital pack rat. Well – mostly. My “junk” is really pretty organized – I just have a lot of it. Last November I upgraded my primary storage system to 4 TB and it’s done pretty well for me… hovering around 3 TB used. My secondary backup server carried the replaced 500 GB drives […]

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To quote one of the all time famous lines from TopGear’s Jeremy Clarkson: “How hard can it be?” Now really – I’ve had my personal HTPC humming along nicely for about 5 months now. I’ve been blown away by: Very low noise Fantastically smooth 24 fps 1080p HDTV playback Vista Media Center (don’t use it […]

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It's now been about a week since all of my HTPC parts arrived and I suppose it's time to divulge a little bit of my day-in-the-life drama of experiences. I do enjoy a bit of computer building as a hobby. Some might call me a computer geek in that I have a basement full of […]