To celebrate World backup Day, Code 42 the company behind CrashPlan are offering a free copy of “Take Control of CrashPlan Backups” to everyone buying a new CrashPlan+ or CrashPlan PRO subscription through to the end of Monday, April 2nd, 2012 (Central Daylight Time). https://www.crashplan.com/consumer/store.vtl You won’t see any mention of the book in Code […]
The HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer was $349.99 from newegg and is currently listed for $269.99, but by using the coupon code HPSER329 it is available for $229.99 which includes free shipping. And for this price this offer also includes a free NComputing L230 Virtual Thin Client System for Windows and Linux VDI Solution valued at […]
My Movies for iPhone and My Movies for iPad have both been updated to version 1.82 and now include new features for WHS 2011 amongst other updates. Both versions has added the following feature which is great news for Windows Home Server 2011 users: Windows Home Server 2011 connection, allowing you to browse list […]
My Movies which allows you to manage your movie collection via a suite available for Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad or Android has had an update for its Windows Home Server 2011 pre-release version. Version 2.11 PR3 has the following changes: Added: Installers "My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 Integrators" option. Change: Better […]
This weeks episode of The Home Server Show podcast is up with your weekly dose of Home Server news and views from Dave and the gang: “Adam Thursby joins the podcast and we will talk about moving data from one PC to a Windows Home Server 2011 box and we’ll try not to lose any […]
CloudBerry Backup is celebrating World backup day by offering Cloud Backup for WHS with 50% off. Do you know that March 31st was chosen to be a World Backup Day? To support the initiative started by a small group of people we want to spread the message that this is a great day to check […]
As you are probably aware Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 Essentials is very similar to WHS 2011 in some respects but do you know the differences between SBS 2011 Essentials and the standard version of SBS 2011? If not then we have the following chart available for you which should give you some of […]
ServeTheHome have created a RAID calculator which is great for you to find out the usable capacity of say RAID 1 versus RAID 5. The calculator currently at version 1 will give you the usable capacity for a given configuration by calculating approximate array features. Future versions will include mean time to data loss calculations, […]
TheDigitalMediaZone has a post on how to setup a VPN for Windows Home Server 2011: “Windows Home Server allows you remote access to your files and some limited functionality related to managing the server. Out of the box there is no notion of being able to remote desktop into your home desktop, laptop or HTPC. […]
Mike Faucher has another video for us, and this one explains how to setup a mirror and a stripe in Windows 8 Storage Spaces. These are also referred to as a Two-way or Three-way mirror and resiliency type none in creating a storage space. Creating a Stripe and a Mirror in Storage Spaces
