With the growing use of home media servers and home theater PCs (HTPCs), many of us now turn to larger capacity hard drives.  The traditional trend is to use a server with hardware RAID to take many smaller drives and turn them in to one larger drive for media, but many software based RAID options now exist to help keep the hardware cost down and simplify making large arrays that are protected from hardware failure.  Keep in mind that RAID is never a substitute for backup, however.  In this article we take a look at the software solution called FlexRAID, which can let your computer and take hard drives and act as a NAS (network attached storage).

Recently, NewEgg had a fantastic price on this Seagate STCA4000100 4TB USB 3.0 external hard drive.  It was at that time I decided to purchase three of these to move to a more traditional NAS setup, either with a Drobo style NAS or a home built server based design.  I'll have more on the home built variety in a future article, but for now I wanted to show everyone the method to cracking this guy open and some test results on the drive itself, which in most cases is a 5900 RPM drive, unless you were one of the ones that ended up with a 7200 rpm model.  This whole process actually takes less than five minutes and should not void the warranty.

If you have ever run into a hard drive you wanted to re-format or use and it was labelled as a "GPT Protective Partition", here are the steps you can take, from within Windows to get the ready for action again.

If you are seeking a new video card to crush the FPS on the latest game then there are a few out there to pick from depending on multiple factors such as budget or depending on your level of need, such as for hard core gaming or flight simulation.  The biggest two of course are AMD and Nvidia.  Nvidia has just released the GTX Titan.  We will start off by taking a look at its specs and its pricing, though for now this card is out of reach for the frugal consumer but offers tons of performance and then work our way down in class and price.

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We talk about World Mobile Congress highlights, the Six Strikes Copyright Alert System takes effect, free particle accelerators around Saturn, shocking craters on the Moon, did a UFO take out the meteor in Russia, new games and more.

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We talk about World Mobile Congress highlights, the Six Strikes Copyright Alert System takes effect, free particle accelerators around Saturn, shocking craters on the Moon, did a UFO take out the meteor in Russia, new games and more.

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Google announces their Chromebook, we dig into the heart of the PS4 announcement, Cold Fusion at NASA, a possible manned Mars mission by 2018 and more.

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Google announces their Chromebook, we dig into the heart of the PS4 announcement, Cold Fusion at NASA, a possible manned Mars mission by 2018 and more.