Your weekly dose of The Home Server Show podcast is available with episode 181 just being published: “The Home Server Crew is back and we have a marathon for you. There was plenty to cover since we missed a week. We have a lot of media related news and gadgets to talk about but the [...]
Drive Bender are offering a limited time 50% discount on their Home Edition of their Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users. The Home Edition of Drive Bender plus life time support and maintenance normally costs $40 but the 50% discount lowers this to just $20. Hurry and grab this bargain from here. The [...]
Small Business Server enthusiast Robert Pearman has written an eBook on migrating to SBS 2011 Essentials. Priced at £2.99 the eBook takes you step by step on migrating to SBS 2011 Essentials from SBS 2003 R2. Starting from preparing your source server to finalizing the migration with network cleanup, its an excellent read for those [...]
Episode 84 of the BYOB podcast is up, and this week: “Z77, Ivy Bridge, Windows 8 talk, SplashTop, and Cloud Drives. Tonight we have some in depth discussions on the new Ivy Bridge CPU’s and the Z77 chipsets. We also hash out some differences on the various cloud drives such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, and G [...]
If you have one of Western Digital’s Caviar Green HDDs then the drives Intellipark technology parks the drives heads and turn off unnecessary electronics after 8 seconds of inactivity to help save power. But the only problem with this is that some software and OS’s are incompatible with the Intellipark feature causing endless head parking [...]
Drive Bender have an extended trial key available which allows you to trial their Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users until the 1st July. If you also have tried Drive Bender in the past and wish to try it again, or simply want to extend your current trial period, just use this key: [...]
Microsoft announced via a tweet that the Release Preview of Windows 8 will be made available the first week of June. The tweet from the Building Windows 8 team came from Japan’s Windows 8 Dev Days conference where Windows chief Steven Sinofsky announced the news. UPDATE: The Windows Server Blog has also stated that they [...]
Another week and another episode of The Home Server Show: I crawled out from underneath my rock and found out how popular this Hunger Games stuff is. Also, Microsoft drops a bombshell on the Media Center enthusiast crowd. Media Center is now an add on software only on the Windows 8 Pro edition. John, Jim, [...]
After naming the desktop and ARM editions of Windows 8, Microsoft have also announced that Windows Server 8 will be known as Windows Server 2012 when it is released later this year. The next version of Windows Home Server will be based on this server edition which will include Microsoft’s new Resilient File System (ReFS), [...]
All being well version 1.3 of Drive Bender (code name Tomcat) will be available on the 24th April. Drive Bender have just posted the following screen shots of their upcoming release, and I must say it looks very nice too:
