Hard Drives

The ioSafe Solo and The Home Server Show Podcast 100th Episode Giveaway

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My current set-up when I received the ioSafe was a portable Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus Mini 250GB hard drive. I used this drive to do all of my WHS (Windows Home Server) backups and then I would take the Maxtor hard drive with me to work as my off-site storage solution. I did not have a primary stay-at-home solution for WHS backups. The issue was that although I was fine with taking my backup drive offsite, it was not efficient and 250 GB’s was not enough space for the shared folder content and backup copies of my computers in the house. As I started to search for backup storage options for an external large capacity hard drive, the ioSafe was one that seemed to fit my needs.

In the mean time I was getting myself involved in the WHS community by participating in the Home Server Show forums and Podcast. The HSS podcasts was coming up on the 100th episode and celebrating by hosting a giveaway. I entered, like many others, and to my surprise I checked the giveaway results and had won the iosafe. I could not believe that I had won the product that I had been hoping to get! The ioSafe Solo (YouTube videos).

After the ioSafe Solo 1.5TB Edition had arrived I was eager to get this setup and plugged into my WHS to test it out. Setup was easy and didn’t take more than five minutes to plug in the power cord to my battery backup and the USB cable to my WHS. I went into my WHS console and added the drive as my ‘backup’ hard drive. The drive is much heavier than a Western Digital 1.5 TB external hard drive but the ioSafe Solo has features unparalleled by any other back-up hard drive. The ioSafe Solo is water proof, fire-proof and crush proof. The reason that I brought up my previous backup solution was the fact that I no longer depend on my portable hard drive to provide WHS backups. With the kind of security that the ioSafe provides I am comfortable not having a off-site backup copy of my WHS data. This is saying a lot from a family man who has precious family photos and videos that if lost can’t be recreated.

I have had no issues with the ioSafe and consider myself very lucky to have won the ioSafe Solo 1.5TB. I would like to thank Jim, Dave and John from The Home Server Show and ioSafe for providing the ioSafe Solo for the 100th show giveaway.
ioSafe Solo

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Hard Drive Partitions….

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I am not sure why topics around hard drive partitions seem to be so difficult.  I continue to see forum post of individuals having problems creating hard drive partitions and/or not knowing how to expand or shrink their hard drive partitions.  This is not a hard task and I have never had any problems.

People are always asking what utility they should use or how to go about creating and/or expanding or shrinking their partitions.  Their is a tool called ‘Computer Management/Disk Management’ that is built-into every Windows install.  This administrator accessory will do everything thing that you need regarding this matter and more.

I have replied to many forum post with this very same information and most people did not even know that ‘Computer Management/Disk Management’ was a Windows accessory.  Did you know about this hidden feature in Windows?

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