Look Familiar? Looking similar to the Windows Home Server “Hockey Puck” is Sony’s white “Liblog Station” due to launch in Japan on May 17th. The compact home server device comes with either 1TB (500GB × 2) of storage on the VGF-HS1S model or 1.5TB (750GB × 2) on the VGF-HS1 model. Alongside Gigabit Ethernet, 3 [...]
KeepVault, the online backup solution for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 2.20: Added a per-file “percent complete” status field to view the progress of the current file being protected Added archive-bit method to optimize file scanning and CPU access (Note: you must run the referenced utility to convert your existing KeepVault database [...]
MediaSmart Drive Labeler is a new add-in from Jerry McCollom which updates the drive labels on the HP MediaSmart Server’s as follows: Drives are correctly labeled as SATA rather than SCSI. The drive bay location is appended to internal SATA drives External SATA drives are correctly shown as External rather than Internal. More info is [...]
A couple of articles which may be of interest to you as a Windows Home Server user are Troubleshooting Motherboard Problems: 5 Real World Examples from enthusiast site ExtremeTech and the Digital Alchemy website has a list of Hard Drive Diagnostic and Repair Tools. All good stuff if our home Server’s go pear shaped!
Benjamin Robichaud has updated his add-in that displays the Windows Event Logs, also known as Event Viewer in the Home Server Console. Once installed you can choose which log to monitor, filter the entries with Show All, Warnings, Errors, etc and clear the logs as well. Version 1.1.0.0 includes the following: Fix : only displays [...]
Steve Rowe has posted on his blog how he uses Drobo and Windows Home Server both together. Drobo is a flexible RAID solution from Data Robotics Inc.
