1 00:00:00,719 --> 00:00:07,680 this episode of lonus detectives is going to be about the special ASUS 2 00:00:04,359 --> 00:00:09,679 features ASUS special features rather on 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:14,440 the TS mini Windows Home Server so why don't we start with aswm so assus system 4 00:00:12,599 --> 00:00:17,880 web-based management software so cleverly named so it's an interface that 5 00:00:16,359 --> 00:00:21,400 allows you to conveniently manage your home server status via Windows Home 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:25,920 Server console so let's go into that over here aswm so this is just a Windows 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:34,120 Home Server plugin there are actually tons available on www.we got ser .co.uk 8 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:38,200 but these are some custom ones that ASUS has included with their ts mini so the 9 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:42,800 first one here is you can monitor your system fans there are two fans in the TS 10 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:48,039 mini they are both working excellent you can monitor your motherboard 11 00:00:45,039 --> 00:00:50,680 temperatures you can monitor your 12 00:00:48,039 --> 00:00:54,239 cat go away cat all right you can monitor your CPU temperature right now 13 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:59,320 it's running at 50° which is perfectly safe you can monitor your discs as well 14 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:04,879 as your drives I'm not sure what the difference between discs and drives is 15 00:01:02,519 --> 00:01:08,560 maybe we'll find out they look the same you can monitor your network connection 16 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:12,200 so here it is showing me how much of my network is being used right now actually 17 00:01:10,439 --> 00:01:18,280 here's something we could do why don't we uh just go like this shared folders 18 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:24,320 and let's see what happens if I actually copy a folder into videos for example 19 00:01:21,759 --> 00:01:29,360 Network utilization should go up and it looks like it doesn't refresh 20 00:01:27,479 --> 00:01:34,520 all that often that's okay memory utilization this has 1 gig of 21 00:01:32,399 --> 00:01:38,799 memory so it shows me how much of that is being used how much page file is used 22 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:38,799 and 23 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:46,479 CPU overall CPU utilization and breaks 24 00:01:43,799 --> 00:01:50,320 it down by core it is a dual core atom so inventory there's a lot more stuff 25 00:01:48,399 --> 00:01:54,479 here that I can also go into if I feel like it and 26 00:01:51,759 --> 00:01:58,920 configuration oh event configuration H vent configuration let's 27 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:03,799 have a look o even BIOS flashes in here there's all kinds of good stuff 28 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:06,000 here so you can have it notify you in 29 00:02:03,799 --> 00:02:11,000 the event oh okay so you can set it so things like motherboard fans uh when it 30 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:16,560 goes below a certain level that's an event I believe so let me see yep so 31 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:24,040 here's the the the low monitor here's high low so critical thresholds are 32 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:26,239 600 okay cool and so yeah you can set it 33 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:31,840 so it'll send you an email or it'll send you um what else can it send you 34 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:40,920 neat well looks like a pretty neat piece of software let's move on to the next 35 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:44,640 one assus web storage so assus web storage allows you to enjoy one year 36 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:47,640 free online space and back up your files to your home server with an internet 37 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:53,080 connection you can access and share any files whenever you want and wherever you 38 00:02:50,319 --> 00:02:56,840 are okay well Windows Home Server allows you to do a whole lot of web storage on 39 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:59,560 your own but I'm sure that there is a value to this I'm not going to bother 40 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:05,200 setting it up for now but that is one of the features that Aus does include this 41 00:03:02,159 --> 00:03:08,120 one I saved the best for 42 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:13,239 last this one has all kinds of cool stuff in here so my my personal favorite 43 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:17,720 one is the backup tab so this allows you to take your external storage Source in 44 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:22,480 this case it's my USB flash drive you can select any folders that you want you 45 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:25,760 select a home server destination folder and then you click backup boom so you 46 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:29,920 throw that in one of your duplicated folders so you have a quick easy way to 47 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:34,319 plug something into your home server back it up and have it duplicated you 48 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:39,519 don't worry about it anymore very cool file manager okay this one I'm not quite 49 00:03:37,239 --> 00:03:43,040 as certain about so you can copy delete edit the files and folders between 50 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:47,400 external storage devices in your Home Server so this would be a way to 51 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:49,400 manually copy edit and delete um this 52 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:54,079 one has a little bit less usefulness to me because you do always have the option 53 00:03:52,159 --> 00:03:59,360 of using remote desktop connection to access your Home Server um if you don't 54 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:02,280 know how to do that it's quite simple you just just go to remote desktop 55 00:04:00,799 --> 00:04:07,159 connection type in the name of your home server and then you can actually do 56 00:04:04,439 --> 00:04:11,360 stuff like this on your own from there so you're not technically supposed to 57 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:14,280 use remote desktop connection uh to access the Home Server they don't 58 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:19,479 recommend it a big warning is going to come up and tell me not to do it but you 59 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:24,080 can always just go into share folders on Home Server go into my computer I mean 60 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:27,000 it's just a computer right so uh from 61 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:31,720 there I can access my uh my flash drive so this one is not uh not a huge one but 62 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:37,000 syn synchronization is great too because synchronization allows you to just same 63 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:41,600 thing you automatically synchronize except this one instead of backing up 64 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:45,800 only from the external device into the Home Server is actually able to go 65 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:49,720 either way so for let's say a document you've been working on at home and at 66 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:54,639 work if you're storing one copy on your USB drive and one copy on your home 67 00:04:51,919 --> 00:04:58,759 server at home you can set it so that it will just synchronize and it'll update 68 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:01,880 to the latest version of the file so that's a very cool feature as well so 69 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:05,560 ASUS has included a pretty neat little software suite in addition to all the 70 00:05:04,039 --> 00:05:12,120 stuff that's already included with Windows Home Server and thank you for 71 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:17,360 checking out my episode on the exclusive 72 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:17,360 ASUS software with the TS Mini