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Sookbox

Posted by KL Tech Muse at 3:11 PM on February 17, 2013

Sookbox Sookbox is a small box that will acts as a media server for your videos and music. This not only includes music on your local server, but also music that is stored in the cloud and on services such as Pandora or Spotify. The software includes an internet browser. You can access your Sookbox through an ip address from anywhere. The Sookbox includes four HDMI outputs, 16 analog audio outputs and 1.5 TB of storage capability. You can connect to your TVs and receivers either wired or wirelessly. The wireless connection works with a dongle that you connect to the TV. Everything is controlled through an app which will be available on Android or iOs. Sookbox is currently still in beta. The control has an open api and they are looking for developers.

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How powerful is your home server?

Posted by Alan Buckingham at 10:32 AM on February 12, 2013

2742.ServersRack.jpg-550x0Last spring my home server, which ran on an HP desktop tower that I had repurposed after buying a Dell desktop, died. I ran FreeNAS because it worked well and was free, but I upgraded to,Windows Server 2012 Essentials after buying a used Dell Optiplex server that I got from a local business that was upgrading. Everything seemed state of the art until today when a Microsoft employee posted his home server specs.

Emmanuel Bergerat recently put together a home server that is geek heaven. This is not a tower computer sitting in your home office, as mine is. This is a full-blow rack housed in his basement.

What is included? Here are a few specs.

  • 7 physical servers
  • The equivalent of 115 GHz of CPU power
  • 112GB of RAM
  • 44 TB of mixed SSDs and HDDs storage, in both DAS and SAN configurations
  • 1GBps Ethernet & 10GBps InfiniBand networks
  • Redundant Internet connections
  • It mainly runs Windows Server 2012
  • but also runs 1 VMware ESXi and 1 XenServer hosts

Bergerat calls this an affordable solution, but I suppose everything is relative. He also goes into a lot of detail in his post regarding what he learned when building this and what he suggests. He also made me feel very inadequate about my home.

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