A developer by the name of Lewis has made a driver that makes the lights work correctly on the HP MediaSmart Server if you have upgraded it to WHS 2011. After upgrading these to WHS 2011, and without this driver the HDD lights would stay off and the system light would blink all the time. […]
Drive Bender has it’s first update for beta 4. Version 1.1.5.1 includes the following bug fixes: Bug fix: A number of minor code changes to fix potential lockup and service crashes. Bug fix: The un-installation routine now correctly restores service dependencies. Drive Bender can be downloaded from here.
Episode 141 of "The Home Server Show" podcast is available for your download or streaming pleasure. This weeks episode has the latest Home Server news, more details on Drive Extender replacements plus lots of great chat from Dave and the gang which you can find here.
YouTube user jvonkuster has posted a video of the new "Windows Home Server 2011 Windows Phone 7 Connector" app. jvonkuster video goes through the installation and configuration process and gives us a look at the various screens which are available:
One Windows Home Server 2011 user isn’t happy with his experience when accessing the Media Library via Remote Web Access. Geoff Coupe explains the errors he receives and also what he sees as design limitations in the Media interface. An interesting read which you can find here.
Engineer Guy Bill Hammack tears down a hard drive and shows us how it is engineered. Bill opens up the hard drive and describes how the "head" reads the magnetic information on the disk, how a voice coil motor and a slider controls the position of the head and explains how smooth a disk must […]
Beta 4 (v1.1.5.0) a major update to Drive Bender has just been posted. This last major beta version of Drive Bender includes the following changes: Update: A new version of the WHS 2011 addin. Bug fix: WHS client backup could sometimes fail, this has been fixed. Bug fix: Drive balancing no longer balances Drive Bender […]
Another Windows Home Server Learning Bites video has been posted on the Microsoft WindowsHomeSvr2011’s Channel. This five minute video covers a high level overview of the new Windows Home Server 2011 Dashboard and it’s features. More Learning Bites videos can be found here.
The Home Server Show are having a meetup in Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin this coming Saturday (June 25th) between 10:00 and 16:00. Sponsored by Drobo, the guys will be giving away some great goodies and if you live too far away from Wisconsin, then the meetup will also have a live feed too – Great stuff! […]
The advanced hard disk surface scanner and monitor add-in StableBit Scanner has had an update. Now at version 1.0.3.2585, it includes the following changes: Manual config switch to turn off WMI SMART permanently. If WMI locks up retrieving SMART, do now spawn addional threads. Added ability to create user dump files from the new Support […]
