Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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G Data for HomeServer – A Users Review

TwinTraveller gives his opinion of using G Data InternetSecurity for HomeServer. In the forum post at WeGotServed TwinTraveller goes through his experience of installing and using this new security package from G Data for WHS 2011 users. You can find the post here.

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Add-In: Home Server SMART 2012 Beta 1 v2.2.1.21

The add-in Home Server SMART 2011 has been updated to the 2012 version for WHS 2011 users. Home Server SMART (HSS) 2012 is the second-generation add-in for SMART disk monitoring for Windows Home Server…HSS consists of two main components, a user interface and a service. The user interface is where you can see the health […]

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The BYOB Podcast Episode 74

Episode 74 of the BYOB Podcast is up and this week its what CES 2012 had to offer. Western Digital My Book Thunder bolt, Highpoint hybrid RAID, Fractal and Lian-Li cases and lots more. You can find episode 74 here.

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Add-In: StableBit DrivePool Build 5472

After many updates this week StableBit have released build 5472 of their DrivePool add-in for WHS 2011 users: This latest build includes the following changes: Tweaked folder details presenter. [D] Changed pool part initialization / refresh to be synchronous. [D] = Driver was modified (reboot required on update) More details on StableBit DrivePool can be […]

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WD DX4000 Sentinel Mini Review

SmallNetBuilder have a mini review of the WD DX4000 Sentinel. Included is a look at the innards of the Sentinel particularly at the different chips involved. It’s performance including RAID 5 file copy read and write performance are also listed, which you can read about here.

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Get your Add-In Listed on Microsoft Pinpoint

Sean Daniel has a post on his site explaining how to get your add-in listed on Microsoft Pinpoint. Microsoft Pinpoint will list your add-in for you and Sean takes us through the free sign up process to get your add-in added, which you can find here.

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WHS 2011 Software for $45

SuperBiiz have the Windows Home Server 2011 software (CCQ-00128) for $49.99 with free shipping, but use the coupon code DRAGON and it will take 10% off, bringing the total down to just $44.99 saving you $5. You can purchase from here but hurry as the coupon code expires 1/24.

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Add-In: StableBit DrivePool Build 5452

Build 5452 of StableBit DrivePool has been released. This latest build of the DE type add-in contains the following changes: [D] Added support for undocumented directory listing file system behavior having to do with indexed requests.        Managed to keep the same parallelized performance aspect of the algorithm, while adding deterministic ordering of results.        […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 169

Episode 169 of The Home Server Show podcast is available. In this weeks edition: “We dive deep into a blog post about Windows 8 and how the new Storage Spaces works.  There are some telling points to discuss about the future of Windows Home Server and how storage management is changing for Windows.  Plenty to […]

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Should Additional License Packs be made available for WHS?

Gunnar Peipman on his ASP.NET blog says that Windows Home Server needs a new licensing scheme. Gunnar is recommending that the base package should be 10 licenses as it is right now, but that there should also be an option to buy more licenses such as 5 more at a time on top if required. […]