Covecube the makers of DrivePool have a great discussion in their forums on Microsoft’s pooling solution in Windows 8, Storage Spaces vs DrivePool. Alex from DrivePool posted the following remarks: I knew about storage spaces in Win 8 for a while, but Microsoft’s blog post explained a lot. Obviously, this is a very bad […]
On their Building Windows 8 blog Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky and Rajeev Nagar, a group program manager on the Storage and File System team revealed details of Storage Spaces a feature in Windows 8 which seems like Drive Extender (DE) implemented in a different way or reincarnated so to speak. Many of us have been using […]
The Serviio for Windows Home Server add-in has just had an update The add-in which enables you to adjust the settings for the Serviio UPnP/DLNA media server from within the dashboard/console is now at version 0.6.1.0: Okay, back to beta here. This is a long-in-coming release for the new Serviio 0.6.x platform that supports streaming […]
The weeks storage news and CES 2012 preview is up in episode 168 of The Home Server Show podcast with Dave, Jim and John. All this plus the weeks Home Server news which you can find here.
Sean Daniel is looking at more ways to take advantage of his low-powered Home Server to do more for him as an *always* on device. And over the holiday period had to print boarding passes prior to leaving for the airport: It was frustrating to have to take out the laptop when the iPad is […]
Newegg are now offering free 8GB RAM upgrade with the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer. The N40L comes with a 250GB SATA hard drive, which is ideal for installing the operating system on and with free shipping included the $319.99 asking price is a good deal HP ProLiant N40L Ultra Micro Tower Server System AMD Turion […]
Episode 72 of the BYOB podcast has just been uploaded: "2011 Tech Faves, Tim’s server woes, Mike’s ESXi update, Michael’s Crossfire, AMD 7970 specs released, facebook client, AppRap" For all Build Your Own Box enthusiasts, you can catch episode 72 here.
The ISO Mounter add-in for WHS V1 and WHS 2011 has been updated to version 1.20 The add-in allows you to mount ISO files (DVD and CD images) stored on your home server so they can be viewed directly through your servers folder share on all of your PC’s and laptops. Here are the release […]
Its another year and today I am privileged to have been rewarded as a Windows Home Server MVP from Microsoft. I feel honored to have received this award for 4 years in a row now and would like to thank both you guys and girls for reading this, for without you none of this would […]
Tranquil PC have announced that since hard drive prices have started to drop slightly following the flooding of hard drive factories in Thailand that they are reflecting this decrease in their product pricing: The Riley (Home Server) Storage Unit prices have been reduced, ie the 4TB unit has seen a £150 price reduction, the 8TB […]
