I’ve been asked on occasion what technology I use/prefer to accomplish a task so I thought I’d document it. Just got some new toys – highlighted below.

Development Hardware

• ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 Mainboard
• AMD FX-8350 Piledriver (Vishera) 4.0GHz 8 Core Processor
• ASUS 2GB GDDR5 DIGI+ VRM technology Graphics Card HD7770-2GD5
• 32GB PC-10600 DDR3 Dual Channel Memory
• Cooler Master HAF XM Case and Corsair 600W Power Supply
• Samsung 240GB SSD (boot drive)
• Western Digital 2TB Drive (Development )
• Samsung 480GB SSD x 2 (Virtual Machines)
• Windows 10 Pro x64
• Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2015
• VMware Workstation 10.x (VMs of Windows XP/7/2003/2008/2012/8/10 and SharePoint 2007,2010,2013, 2016)

SAN/NAS

• Synology DiskStation DS212J (Media Center Storage – 3TB)
• Synology DiskStation DS414 (Files, Pictures, Videos, Backups – 12TB)

Media Center 

• HP 8300 USFF Desktop; Core i7-3770s @ 3.1GHz
• 8GB RAM
• Samsung EVO 240GB SSD as boot drive
• Blu-Ray/DVD Drive
• SiliconDust HDHomeRun Prime x 2
• AnyDVD HD
• Plex 
• Apple TV 
• Fire Stick
• Channels for IOS and Apple TV (reviewing as replacement for WMC)

Automation

• Ecobee 3 Smart Thermostat
• Wemo Switches and sensors
• IFTTT; Apple Homekit

Other

• iPad Air 2
• iPhone 6
• Apple Watch Series 2
• Mac Mini (IOS Development)
• Nokia Lumia 520
• LinkSys WRT-1900AC
• TP-Link TL-SG1024DE Gigabit Ethernet Switch