Engineer Guy Bill Hammack tears down a hard drive and shows us how it is engineered. Bill opens up the hard drive and describes how the "head" reads the magnetic information on the disk, how a voice coil motor and a slider controls the position of the head and explains how smooth a disk must […]
Beta 4 (v1.1.5.0) a major update to Drive Bender has just been posted. This last major beta version of Drive Bender includes the following changes: Update: A new version of the WHS 2011 addin. Bug fix: WHS client backup could sometimes fail, this has been fixed. Bug fix: Drive balancing no longer balances Drive Bender […]
Another Windows Home Server Learning Bites video has been posted on the Microsoft WindowsHomeSvr2011’s Channel. This five minute video covers a high level overview of the new Windows Home Server 2011 Dashboard and it’s features. More Learning Bites videos can be found here.
The Home Server Show are having a meetup in Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin this coming Saturday (June 25th) between 10:00 and 16:00. Sponsored by Drobo, the guys will be giving away some great goodies and if you live too far away from Wisconsin, then the meetup will also have a live feed too – Great stuff! […]
The advanced hard disk surface scanner and monitor add-in StableBit Scanner has had an update. Now at version 1.0.3.2585, it includes the following changes: Manual config switch to turn off WMI SMART permanently. If WMI locks up retrieving SMART, do now spawn addional threads. Added ability to create user dump files from the new Support […]
BYOB Episode 47 is available. For those of you not in the know, the Build Your Own Box podcast is for those of you who love to assemble your own PCs, Home Server’s etc. and this weeks edition has lots of chat on hardware (naturally), plus a short discussion on backups and clean uninterrupted power. […]
My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 has had an update. Version 2.00 Pre Release 9 (released June 15th 2011) includes the following changes: Fix: Issue with license user, where the license wasn’t available for the services. Fix: Notification addition is now running in own thread. Fix: Monitoring now only runs when language and country […]
My Movies for Windows Home Server (v1) has an update. Version 2.00 Pre Release 3 (released June 15th 2011) includes the following changes: Fix: DataLanguage was missing in Settings Fix: Monitoring now doesn’t run without a datalanguage. Fix: Removed Firewall settings button to make room for language configuration. The download for this media management add-in […]
Build 1856 of StableBit DrivePool is available for download. This latest release has the following changes: Free space in the drives list is now updated periodically. Sometimes a task wizard would report success before the task finished. More details on this Drive Extender replacement add-in are available from here.
Another mix of debate and news from the guys at The Home Server Show podcast, and this weeks episode is packed full of Windows Home Server goodness: Alex Piskarev from covecube.com dropped by to talk about StableBit, DrivePool, Scanner, and some interesting tools he developed for WHS v1′s backup database. We have news and meetup […]
