Episode 268 of the Home Server Show is on pfSense vs. Sophos: On this episode we’ll be comparing pfSense to Sophos with a little bit of Untangle mixed in as well. Which one is the better router? Ten TB hard drives, yes 10TB! News and Meetup 2014. You can find episode 268 here.
Seagate announced last month its plans to ship a 8TB hard drive on a single 3.5" platter and now Western Digital have announced its 10TB HelioSeal hard drive. WD are the first to ship a hermetically sealed, helium-filled HDD, which reduces internal friction and power use, runs about 5 degrees cooler than today’s 7,200 rpm […]
Another pre release update for My Movies Home and Essentials Server Solution. This latest version (5.10 Pre Release 8) has the following change log: Fix: Pre Release 7 contained a fix to avoid allowing multi-selection in the add titles dialog. This fixed ended up resulting in a new bug where the dialog would continue to […]
The pre release version of My Movies for Windows – Home and Essentials has been updated. Version 5.10 Pre Release 7 has the following change log: Added: Movie Contribution Guide link added to help menu. Change: Moved contribution comment prompt to before the file upload. Change: Contribution encouragement for disc titles is no longer done […]
Microsoft have re-released its 3 security updates that were withdrawn shortly after release in August for WS2012 R2. The downloads are available from Windows Update or from the Download Centre: August 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB2975719) August 2014 update rollup for Windows RT, Windows 8, […]
TechNet have available an updated list of storage related Hotfixes post RTM for WS2012 R2, which naturally also includes WS2012 R2 Essentials. Remember that these are not available in Windows Update and that a hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in the relevant article. You should not apply the hotfix […]
The beta build of StableBit Scanner has been updated for WHS2011, WS2012 Essentials and WS2012 R2 Essentials users. Here is the change log for version 2.5.0.3048: Temperature equalization was sometimes considering disks that don’t properly report their temperature. Suspended scans were sometimes incorrectly being restarted immediately after being suspended. Cleaned up core scanning algorithm code. […]
