Episode 284 of the Home server Show podcast is about using the HP Stream Mini Desktop, Plex and Synology on the go. Not apps, in vehicles! With Dewain Robinson taking us through his setup and how he synchronizes and views content from his home to his “home away from home” setup. This is a great […]
StableBit, the company behind DrivePool today announced a brand new product called StableBit CloudDrive which aims to be the best way to securely store your data in the cloud on Microsoft Windows. What it Does: StableBit CloudDrive creates a new virtual drive on your PC that stores its data in the cloud. You can optionally […]
The pre-release build of My Movies for Windows – Home and Essentials has been updated. Version 5.13 Pre Release 4 has the following change log: Added: Convertion of Disc titles with mapped TV Episodes now adds paths to the episodes. Added: Option to pause converting before next job, in Converter Tasks. Added: Import/Monitoring of movie/disc […]
StableBit Scanner the advanced hard disk surface scanner and monitor add-in has been updated. Version 2.5.2.3100 BETA has StableBit CloudDrive compatibility and various fixes. You can download this latest beta release from here.
Backup company BackBlaze uses thousands of hard drives in its business and regularly publishes hard drive reliability data. In their latest report for Q1 2015 Hitachi drives (HGST) is still the reigning champion with no more than 1.83% of drives failing. Regarding the 2 main players in the market, Seagate has the highest failure rate […]
Episode 283 of the Home Server Show podcast is all about Plex, power and NAS: “Power outages either cause problems or reveal them so @JCollison and I are talking power. I’ve also got some Plex on NAS info for you as well as a follow up on Otixo and CloudHQ. Lastly, CloudBerry Labs has some […]
CloudBerry Dedup Server is a data deduplication software for Windows Server. It is designed to reduce size of your backups by recognizing and storing only one copy of identical blocks across all files. The program works in conjunction with CloudBerry Backup and processes all the data received from client workstations and servers. After deduplication is […]
HP ProLiant MicroServer for Dummies is a free eBook in the popular Dummies series of books which will help you: Server and network basics Why the HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 is right for them The benefits of the HP Just Right IT solution including the MicroServer Gen8, PS110 11n Wireless VPN Router, and the PS1810-8G […]
With all the chat about Nano Server what about if you have the ISO downloaded but you would like to install Nano in a VM? The best way would be to create a Nano VHD file and luckily for us Russell smith has written up a tutorial on how to do just that, which can […]
Nano Server is a new headless deployment option for Windows Server. Microsoft has announced that the Nano Server is a deeply refactored version of Windows Server with a small footprint and remotely managed installation, optimized for the cloud and a DevOps workflow, and focuses on two scenarios: 1.Born-in-the-cloud applications – support for multiple programming languages […]
