At TechMikeNY, we have a very diverse breadth of customers: from small business owners to crypto-miners to hobbyists. While we love all our customers, we have a particular affinity for a certain segment: higher education students – specifically, Computer Science students. We were once students, too – and we know between textbooks, meal cards, and midterms, the struggle is real!
While many co...
We often have customers inquiring about the specs they need to build a security system server for their home or business office. We thought it would be helpful to summarize the advantages and the software and hardware you need to build a security system with a refurbished server.
Advantages of Having a Physical Box Over a Security Cloud Subscription
With the proliferation of The Cloud, there ...
Over the years, we’ve had several customers reach out to our sales reps asking for help building out a Plex Media Server. We have always happily obliged, but for those unfamiliar with Plex or perhaps are in the market for an efficient home media solution, read on.
(SPOILER: if you like having large amounts of movies, music, and home videos & photos saved locally for easy access across m...
Have you been thinking about a Minecraft home server but aren’t sure exactly where to start or what you will need? Do you feel limited by realms and the cap on players that can join? It turns out that a rack server – due to Minecraft’s emphasis on CPU and RAM – can be the perfect device for meeting the Minecraft home server hardware requirements. In this post, we’ll cover basic tips and r...
In the world of IT acronyms, nothing sounds more like a Marvel supervillain than "JBOD." No, JBOD is not a criminal mastermind bent on world domination (as far as we know) but a non-RAID storage architecture that maximizes the volume of its drives, so the total disk space is the sum of its drives.
So what is a JBOD? If the above sounds complicated, know that "J.B.O.D" stands for "Just a B...
