The VIA “Home Mini Vault”
Do not confuse VIA’s most recent ARTiGO, the A2000, with its predecessor, the A1000 Pico-ITX DIY Builder kit. Whereas the A1000 conveniently packages VIA’s Pico-ITX form factor into a kitten-cute, yet, highly functional and ground-breaking system (“That’s a computer, really? It’s sooo small…”) for all those gadget-loving geeks and tech-savvy engineers alike, the A2000 (dubbed [...]
FreeNAS on the ARTiGO A2000
In the following post I’ll go over what it takes to get FreeNAS installed and working on the new ARTiGO A2000. Since this was my first time ever dealing with FreeNAS I ran into a few glitches along the way. Lucky for you I’ll outline those glitches below so you can avoid making the same [...]
Get a Small HTPC with Blu-Ray…
For an extremely reasonable price!
AOpen’s latest MiniPC, the MP45-DR, is pretty neat. Not only do most of the employees at Logic Supply use these computers as their desktop machines, but they also buy them as gifts for their family and friends. And with good reason. These systems offer HDMI (both digital audio and video via [...]
Slipstreaming for Fun and Profit: RAID Setup in Windows XP
In my previous post, I was detailing the process for building an NAS (Network Attached Storage) system using the Gigabyte GA-6KIEH-RH mainboard in the Chenbro ES34069 Mini-ITX Server case. While setting up the system, I hit upon a snag when I tried to get the Gigabyte board’s onboard SATA/RAID controller to work in Windows XP.
In [...]