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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 65
Episode 65 of the Home Server Show podcast is out with the latest news and views. This weeks guest speaker is Timothy Daleo from usingwindowshomeserver.com on his Tech Tips on a Tuesday Morning and on a Friday Night series. Catch it here . More »
Power Pack 3 Availability
Its nearly hear. Microsoft has officially announced that next Tuesday on the 24th of November Power Pack 3 will be available via Windows Update. The release will be available in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish and users must have Windows Home Server with Power Pack 2 already installed on their home server to receive the update. Power Pack 3 (PP3) improves the Windows Home Server experience with both Windows 7 and Windows Media Center by providing backup and restore of computers running Windows 7, Windows 7 Libraries integration, enhancements for Windows Media Center, and better support for netbook computers. If you missed our previous post on what’s new in PP3, here’s a refresh for you: Windows 7 Libraries integration When you install the Windows Home Server Connector and log on a computer running Windows 7, you can access the Windows Home Server shared folders from the Windows... More »
Diskeeper 2010 HomeServer
The defragmenter for our Home Servers has been updated. Diskeeper 2010 HomeServer edition has been updated to include IntelliWrite which prevents the majority of fragmentation before it even happens and for any fragmentation that does occur, Diskeeper 2010 utilizes a powerful defragmentation engine to rapidly handle any remaining fragmentation with zero impact on system resources. Diskeeper 2010 dramatically improves system performance from faster file reads and writes. By curtailing the excessive I/Os associated with fragmentation, wear and tear on the drive is greatly reduced, resulting in extended hardware life. Behind the scenes, free space is consolidated, further reducing the chances of future fragmentation, and the location of the most commonly used files is optimized for faster access. All of this occurs with zero impact on system resources. Other features include: NEW! IntelliWrite fragmentation prevention technology Terabyte Volume Engine (TVE) Breakthrough Technology! InvisiTasking Real-time defragmentation Uncompromising file and free space defragmentation... More »
Win Home Servers with Japanese Poem Oh Wise One
Intel and Windows Home Server have teamed up to give you the chance to win Home Server’s, Microsoft Zune HD 16 GB digital audio players and 1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green Hard Drives. To win you need to say how a home server would bring peace of mind to YOUR life, or why you really want one, but as a haiku. What’s a haiku, I hear you cry? A haiku is a three line, one stanza, traditional Japanese poem lacking rhyme and metaphor; the first line must have 5 syllables, the second line 7, and the third line 5. So, what you waiting for, head over to Win a Home Server.com for a chance of winning some booty. More »
Exclusive: ASUS Home Server - The TS Mini
Asus have just announced the TS Mini, a Home Server which is powered by the Intel Atom N280 (1.66GHz) processor and features 2GB DDR2 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, storage space for 2 internal SATA hard drives, with 6 USB ports and 2 eSATA ports for future expansion. Remarkably the Asus TS Mini consumes only 24.5W when idle and just 27.9W during normal use, an area which is defiantly awesome. Added on top of the Windows Home Server software, Asus have added their own pieces of software: WebStorage Service The Asus TS Mini also offers users a year of free 500GB Web storage space allowing you to boost your storage or synchronize backups online for improved data security. Additionally, you can save large peer-to-peer files on the Web, and share data with user accounts worldwide. Media Streaming The TS mini makes it easy for you to stream photos, music,... More »
Asus TS Mini Home Server Press Release
For those of you who fancy a read, here is the press release for the Asus TS Mini Home Server: ASUS Unveils TS Mini Server for Today’s Small Office/Home Office – Compact, energy efficient and pre-installed with Windows ® Home Server, the TS Mini serves the need to access and share content on-demand – Fremont, California (November 18, 2009) – ASUS, a worldwide leader in personal computers, today introduces the TS mini small office/home office (SOHO) server. The TS mini targets modern home and small office users that frequently exchange data from multiple computers and require access from various locations. The TS mini secures documents, multimedia, and other digital content into a sleek repository. It further safeguards data on multiple computers across the home or office with automatic backups and cloud storage. TS mini allows centralized file access with local networks, attached storage devices and remotely over the internet. Equipped... More »
Intel D510M0 Mount Olive Mini-ITX Main Board
The latest mini-itx main board from Intel is the D510M0 which is equipped with the Intel Atom Dual Core D510 processor (2x 1.66GHz and 2x 512K cache) and the Intel NM10 Express Chipset, providing more than enough power for a Windows Home Server home build. As well as the 2x hyper threaded 1.66GHz CPUs (4x CPUs in Task manger) the north bridge controller is on the SAME silicon as the CPUs, improving overall performance. An early tester of the D510M0 board is Tranquil PC who had this to say: (We) will be using this new board in numerous new PCs and Servers, including the new MiDASS series of Home Servers. There is talk, that the board will also be made available on it’s own too. Due to be shipped in early January 2010 by Tranquil PC the TDP is only 13W (that’s the CPU and the North Bridge) and would... More »
HP StorageWorks X510 Reviews
Two top technology websites have reviews on the HP StorageWorks X510 2TB Server. The re-badged EX495 MediaSmart Server for the small business user, gets great reviews with SlashGear being "impressed" and neowin saying it "is a solid unit" which "should be on your list to check out". SlashGear ’s review and neowin’s . More »
Power Pack 3 Next Week
Sean Daniel who is the Program Manager for SBS (Small Business Server) at Microsoft has posted that Power Pack 3 will be available next week. Using his Twitter account, Sean posted: Ahh… my #WHS is running Power Pack 3 RTM. Look for yours next week! Great news, cant wait to get my hands on it. More »
WHS to Have Little Butte
Australia’s APCMag.com is highlighting the new Home Server design by Intel which utilizes the Atom CPU. The bespoke platform is specifically designed for the Windows Home Server platform and is being developed in conjunction with Gigabyte, and is known as the "Little Butte". As well as Gigabit Ethernet and the single memory slot there is capacity for 4 x internal SATA hard drives as well as 2 x eSata ports and 4 x USB 2.0 for further expansion. A front panel connector for a visual control panel and/or status indicators is also provided as well as an embedded switch on the rear panel which boots the server into a WinPE environment for recovery from a system crash. More details are available from APC Magazine Online . More »
Holiday Storage Devices Gift Guide
COMPUTERWORLD has a holiday gift idea article on storage devices. The article looks at various devices including the Media Hub Home Entertainment Storage by Linksys, , Seagate’s DockStar and Acer’s Aspire easyStore H340 Home Server. You can read it here . More »
Add-In: CloudBerry Backup for WHS 1.3.1
CloudBerry Backup for Windows Home Server has been updated. Version 1.3.1 of the online backup solution for our Home Servers include the following new features: Alerting notifications GUI issues with high DPI fixed Purging options work correctly C# API – an ability to get backup plan statistics programmatically Issue with Overview panel is fixed Other issues And the following is a list of features coming soon: Block level backup and restore – backup only modified portions of files Virtual Disk – expose Amazon S3 storage as a local disk on your computer Storage costs estimates using http://cloudsplit.com/ Web interface access your backup storage everywhere FTP support Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network support Microsoft Azure Blob Storage support Sun Cloud Storage Service support More info on CloudBerry Backup for Windows Home Server is available from here . More »
The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 64
Episode 64 of The Home Server Show podcast is up with the latest news and chat about antivirus protection on Windows Home Server, a home build in a 20 bay Norco case and lots more. Listen in here . More »
Dell Inspiron Zino HD for WHS?
The Dell Inspiron Zino HD is a small 8" by 8" desktop computer with 4 external USB 2.0 ports and 2 eSATA connectors. Comprising an Athlon Dual-Core processor and up to 8GB of RAM it is a contender for a home build Home Server, although it only has space for one internal SATA II hard disk. With 2GB of RAM with a 1TB hard drive the unit works out as $379, although prices start at $229. More details on the Dell Inspiron Zino HD are available from here , CruchGear also has an article on the 5 best uses for the $229 Dell Zino HD. More »
Acer Aspire EasyStore Video Review
The ComputerTV video network takes a look at the Acer Aspire EasyStore Home Server. In this 6 minute video, the EasyStore is taken a good look at, and is worth a look if you are thinking of purchasing one. More »
Share WHS with Samba Easily
If you stream from your Windows Home Server shared folders to any media player via smb (such at the Popcorn Hour or Myka) you can only mount 1 share at a time. Meaning you will have to create a separate smb share for each shared folder and you will only be able to access one share at a time on your media player. But MediaSmartServer.net has a post with a solution which allows all your WHS shared folders to appear under one smb share, which you can read here . More »
Windows Home Server - A Solid 9 out of 10
Website "Major Arcana" is about the rantings of 2 anime tech geeks who this week take a look at Windows Home Server and the Acer Aspire Easystore H340. The guys give Home Server a solid 9 out of 10 and point out the products good points as well as its bad ones too, which you can read about here . More »
homeserver.com Domain Hiccup
On Tuesday (10th Nov 09) Windows Home Server users were receiving the following error in their Home Network Health tab within the Console: Windows Home Server was unable to update Windows Live Custom Domains with your current IP address. Your web site may not be available on the Internet. This was due to a problem with the Windows Live Custom Domain service, a spokesperson for Microsoft had this to say: Today the Live DNS service had a hiccup that prevented updates for records on the .homeserver.com domain name. Thus if your WAN IP address changed on your router, the home server was unable to update this record, and remote access was not available. This may have been accompanied with an alert from the home server. If your WAN address did not change during the last 24 hours, remote access was unaffected. The issue is now resolved and the Live DNS... More »
Add-In: My Movies for Windows Home Server 1.50 Build 9
My Movies for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 1.50 Build 9 to fix a problem with the playback of images. My Movies for Windows Home Server allows you to create a copy of your DVD/CD collection onto your Home Server. More details are available from here . More »
Backup Strategy - From a Panic Model to WHS
Microsoft employee Raymond Chen gives his experiences of Windows Home Server. From going from a "wait until it breaks, and then panic" model to an Acer Aspire EasyStore H340, Raymond now randomly selects a file from a backup just to make sure the backups are working – Which of course they are. More »
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