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I had the opportunity to test the Western Digital WD Sentinel DX4000 Small Office Storage Server over the last few months and have been impressed with the performance and storage capacity of this great compact server. Read on to find out more about the WD Sentinel DX4000.

Today WD has announced the release of their WD Sentinel DX4000 in 4TB and 8TB models running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This small office storage server offers complete protection for your data, PCs and remote access. With a 4TB model selling for $949 it is a great deal in todays market.

The Dual Core Atom X310 Data Vault with 1TB and 2GB of memory and WHS v1 is now available at Newegg for $299 after rebate. These are no longer available for order on HP so if you have been waiting for a deal on a great HP small form factor server then today might just be your day. Check out the link for this great deal!

With a release date of 07/18/11, you can now preorder the SiliconDust HDHomeRun PRIME 6CC for $499.99. This new six tuner CableCARD tuner would compliment any HTPC system that currently uses cable and Windows Media Center.

SiliconDust has just announced that the new HDHomeRun PRIME is available for preorder with a ship date of June 29, 2011. This is a major milestone for SiliconDust and we are excited to see the PRIME hit the market. Read on to find out more about the PRIME!

SATA III drives are close to the same price as SATA II drives so if you have a motherboard that supports SATA III now might be the time to upgrade hard drives! Check out this short article on upgrading to the next SATA spec!

BYOB releases episode 42 today where we talk about the new OCZ Vertex 3 SSD drive and the 1TB SATA III Western Digital Caviar Blue hard drive. Check out the show!

After the installation of Windows Home Server 2011 RTM on my HP ProLiant MicroServer I found myself wanting to add a USB 3.0 card to increase my off-site backup speeds. If you have a ProLiant MicroServer, or are thinking of buying one, check out our 17 minute video that completely tears it apart!

In the latest episode of BYOB we talk about bootable devices, the boot sequence and give you a brief overview of the Windows Home Server Restore process. Read on to find out how bootable devices are the key to starting your computers operating system and check out the podcast to find out how Windows Home Server makes the Restore process easy.

Do you have a PC that needs a Restore from Windows Home Server 2011 but the PC cannot find the network or the server? If you have another computer on the network, and a USB enclosure, you can perform the Restore and then put that drive in the PC that needed the new hard drive. Check out the video on the process!

Did you know that Microsoft publishes the Lifecycle dates for all of its products including Windows Home Server? Are you interested in the Support End Dates of your other Microsoft products? Wonder what ever happened to your Fingerprint reader, Microsoft Money, Picture It or XP MCE updates? Check out these links to all of the Microsoft Lifecycle Support dates.

The Windows Team Blog has just announced that Windows Home Server 2011 has finally been released and is available on TechNet and MSDN. This is a great milestone and we look forward to a bright future with Windows Home Server 2011.