During the month of August UK Home Server hardware supplier HumuHumu are offering an instant £79 saving on their Home server product. The Windows Home Server 2011 box from HumuHumu normally sells for £478.98, but with this saving it brings the price down to £399.98. Equipped with a 2TB SATA hard drive and 4GB of […]
Another 2 releases have been announced for StableBit DrivePool 1st was build 3334 with the following changes: Moving a folder now reports per-file progress. This will keep the progress bar moving even when a large file is in the process of being moved. Added move folder wizard. Enabled shared folder descriptions. Descriptions are stored on […]
ViridianPC have announced their new range of servers running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. The 3 servers on offer are the VSS-4HC @ £625.00, theVSS-4HA @ £458.33 and the VSS-6IC Colorado Editions @ £666.67. These server comes with features not typically found on small home servers, such dual Intel network adapters featuring redundancy and […]
Tranquil PC will soon be creating PCs and exclusive servers for domestic, commercial, embedded and industrial markets and these rather nice systems will be like…think black Apples! One of these new machines is just 34mm high, made from a single block of aluminum and fan less and this sample unit has an mSATA internal 80GB […]
Version 1.1.7.1 (2011-08-09) of Drive Bender has been released with a number of must have bug fixes: Bug fix: When writing to a folder marked for duplication, the duplicated file itself may be corrupt and unusable (bug introduced in v1.1.5.8). Bug fix: Heavy I/O could cause a number of memory leaks to occur. Update: When […]
Snoop-de-dupe version 1.30 has just been released This add-in allows you to locate and manage duplicate files on your server in real-time on both WHS V1 and WHS/SBS 2011 New Features: New Batch-mode handling to easily handle large quantities of duplicate files Allow swapping of "original file" and "duplicate file" for improved file management One-click […]
Windows Home Server pioneer Charlie Kindel today announced that he will be leaving Microsoft after 21 years. Charlie originally joined Microsoft in 1990 in developer support for systems products and later in 1999 thought of the Windows Home Server concept which originally started as the Quattro project 5 years later. Charlie finally started the Windows […]
Another release from the guys at StableBit for their DE replacement add-in DrivePool. Here is their 1.0.0.3292 version change log: Made the Dashboard details presenters display a reboot required message when the server needs rebooting instead of "Error starting service". Fixed anti-flicker code in the Dashboard. Fixed device not ready errors when moving / renaming […]
Two more releases for StableBit DrivePool, the DE replacement add-in for WHS 2011 users. The first was build 3262: Fixed the annoying issue of folder names being upper cased. This fix should stop it from happening in the future. Fixed bug in code that takes a file out of service. Incomplete file repair task now […]
The add-in "Windows 7 Professional Pack" is available for SBS 2011 Essentials users. Available from Friday August 12th from the Microsoft Download Center, the add-in ties together Windows 7 Professional and Windows SBS 2011 Essentials so you can easily deploy pre-configured security settings, folder redirection and offline files from the “Computers and Backup” tab in […]
