You may remember Previous Versions a front end for the Volume Shadow Copy service in WHS 2011, a feature that allows you to recover an older version of a document or other data file. The forth coming Windows 8 introduces File History and Windows guru Paul Thurrott explains the details: [File History] attempts to right [...]
Thanks to hard drive manufacturer Seagate, storage capacity could soon double as it is the first hard drive producer to achieve a storage density of 1 terabyte per square inch. This means that current hard drives could double over the next decade, especially 3.5-inch drives with space of 60TB or more. More information is available [...]
Windows Home Server saved Richard Hay’s data after he encountered a blue screen: While performing a couple of different tasks on my main machine (burning music to a CD-ROM and streaming music from my WHS 2011) the machine blue screened and rebooted. It never recovered and just kept up that BSOD and reboot loop. The [...]
Episode 81 of the BYOB podcast is up with more discussion for the "Build Your Own Box" enthusiasts. “eVGA SRX motherboard, Zenbook, The new iPAD, the new Apple TV, SSD Caching with Highpoint’s new card, on Episode 81 of the BYOB Podcast.” You can find it here.
Focusing on the business benefits of technology, the CIAOPS Need to Know Podcast has Kevin Royalty on this weeks episode. Kevin who is a Small Business Server MVP talks about SBS and Windows Home Server in this hour long, episode 25: “In this episode I chat with SBS MVP Kevin Royalty about some of the [...]
Episode 175 of The Home Server Show podcast is available. And in this weeks episode: “It’s another week about the future. Windows 8 and what it means to file systems, storage, and home servers. We go over Storage Spaces in detail with Mike Faucher of the BYOB Podcast. Lots of chat with zero news. We [...]
After telling us about Storage Spaces in the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, Mike Faucher (aka PCDoc) is back this time demonstrating Storage Spaces in Server 8 for us which also includes the option of enabling the ReFS file system. Mike states: “I am still not convinced that Storage Spaces is the way to go, [...]
Episode 80 of the BYOB podcast is up: …we talk to John Wills (aka jmwills from the forums) about his setup, networking overseas, and of course Windows 8. We are joined by John Zajdler for the second half of the show to discuss Storage Spaces and other topics. You can catch episode 80 here.
PCDoc from the BYOB podcast has come to the conclusion that Windows 8 Storage Spaces feature is not up to par: …the performance of the Storage Spaces is pretty bad in comparison to a hardware solution…it is simply not worth using for anything serious. Although we must remember that Storage Spaces and Windows 8 is [...]
UK based ViridianPC have a new site design and are offering 1 pair of tickets to the Gadget Show Live taking place at the NEC Birmingham in April this year. For a chance to win head on over to the new ViridianPC home page.
