Its time for another episode of the BYOB podcast. And what does episode 104 have in store for us: A new build! An array rebuild, Eye-fi and iPad Mini….Untangle Ramblings of the indecisive on routers firewalls and web filtering… You can find it here.
Ready for the holiday season Microsoft have WS2012 Essentials listed in their online store for $545.47. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials can also be found from the likes of newegg, where it is being offered for $499.99.
StableBit have posted a blog post on DrivePool 1.3 BETA which adds multiple pool support. DrivePool – Add to a new pool The post explains what multiple pool support is and how to use it. How this affects the new balancing system introduced in DrivePool 1.2 and what would happen if you plugged your data […]
Episode 206 of "The Home Server Show" podcast is up. And in this weeks episode: It’s a pre Thanksgiving show that is pretty laid back. Chris Lux and John Zajdler join Jim and Dave to go over Windows Phone, Server Essentials 2012, and get nostalgic over WHS v1. You van catch the audio here or […]
Western Digital have released a 4TB Black series hard drive. The new drive new drive has some features which are normally reserved for their RE (enterprise) series drives, such as dual processors and dual stage actuator tech. This 7200 RPM unit comes with the now standard 64MB cache and SATA 6Gb/sec interface. With a MSRP […]
The add-in Advanced Admin Console 2011 is coming to Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Developer Andreas M has been working on his add-in which allows access to all administrative areas of your server for WS2012e. In a blog post Andreas stated that he has finished porting the Advanced Admin Console 2011 AddIn to the new Windows […]
Microsoft have announced that both the Health Report Add-in and Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 Essentials have been Released to manufacturing (RTM). The Health Report add-in covers the health of several key functionalities for Windows Server 2012 Essentials, it is designed to assist the administrator to easily monitor the server’s overall status, with a […]
Episode 205 of "The Home Server Show" podcast is up. And in this weeks episode: …Jim and I cover a little bit of news but nothing extravagent. PogoPlug vs. TonidoPlug as well as some Microserver discussions. It’s a laid back show so I hope you enjoy. You can catch the audio here or watch the […]
Windows Server 2012 Essentials has an issue where it wakes up every 30 minutes by the Server Infrastructure License Service (silsvc). This bug has been logged on the Microsoft Connect site for the last few months and it looks like this issue is going to be fixed. Microsoft have replied to a user of the […]
Did you know that your HP N40L MicroServer can use 16GB of RAM? Cris Wahl purchased 2x 8GB sticks of Corsair memory and tells us his experiences which you can find here.
