Lacie today announced the LaCie 5big Office featuring Windows Home Server 2011 and the LaCie 5big Office+ featuring Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. In a press release Lacie say that both units run a 1.6GHz Intel 64-bit Atom processor and come complete with 2GB of RAM. The Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials offering [...]
Episode 75 of the BYOB Podcast is up. “Corsair Accelerator Series, Jawbone JamBox, How to be security conscious and why all on this weeks BYOB podcast.” Lots of good stuff for the "Build Your Own Box" enthusiast, which you can find here.
A user by the name of Koitsu is reporting that there is an unacceptable power design on the WD Sentinel DX4000 hardware. In his post Koitsu states that the external 6.3A at 19V power brick is not good enough: “The unit comes with 5400rpm drives — if you were to shove four 7200rpm drives in [...]
Alexander Kent the developer behind Grid Junction, an Add-in for managing a UPS via the Windows Home Server Console has announced that the version for WHS 2011 has been cancelled. In a statement released today Alexander said that the project did not gain enough traction to warrant further development: “After careful consideration we have made [...]
Sean Daniel has a great list to resources for SBS and WHS users. His list comprises links to router setup wikis, server deployment, remote web access, media and workgroup KBs plus a lot more from Microsoft’s Windows HSBS team. You can check out Sean’s listing here.
This weeks edition of The Home Server Show podcast is out: …plenty of talk about Synology and Windows 8 Storage Spaces and talk about a typical “Home” server and it’s role in the household. All this is on episode 170 of The Home Home Server Show.
TwinTraveller gives his opinion of using G Data InternetSecurity for HomeServer. In the forum post at WeGotServed TwinTraveller goes through his experience of installing and using this new security package from G Data for WHS 2011 users. You can find the post here.
Episode 74 of the BYOB Podcast is up and this week its what CES 2012 had to offer. Western Digital My Book Thunder bolt, Highpoint hybrid RAID, Fractal and Lian-Li cases and lots more. You can find episode 74 here.
SmallNetBuilder have a mini review of the WD DX4000 Sentinel. Included is a look at the innards of the Sentinel particularly at the different chips involved. It’s performance including RAID 5 file copy read and write performance are also listed, which you can read about here.
Episode 169 of The Home Server Show podcast is available. In this weeks edition: “We dive deep into a blog post about Windows 8 and how the new Storage Spaces works. There are some telling points to discuss about the future of Windows Home Server and how storage management is changing for Windows. Plenty to [...]
