Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Western Digital 2TB WD20EADS Hard Drive Review

Computer geek site ExtremeTech has a review on the newly released 2TB green hard drive from Western Digital. The WD20EADS GreenPower with a list price of $299 uses four platters and consumes up to 70% less power than two 1 TB drives. The full six page review can be read here.

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Windows Home Server for SOHO Managed Services

Servicing the IT needs of small and midsized business customers, LPI Level Platforms Inc. makers of the remote monitoring and management software for solutions providers and MSPs (Managed Service Provider’s) has announced that the company’s Managed Workplace software is now available for Windows Home Server. It’s good to see that a managed service provider is […]

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PerfectDisk 10 Disk Defragmentation for Windows Home Server

Raxco Software today announced the release of PerfectDisk 10 for Windows Home Server. The disk defragmentation software has a significantly improved interface, faster defrag engine and new features: Improved performance: Saving you time and resources, PerfectDisk’s engine now runs up to 30% faster. Exclusive to PerfectDisk – Smart automatic StealthPatrol: Working in background of your […]

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Windows Update for Windows Home server

A new Windows Update is available which improves the capability of Windows Home Server to repair abnormalities detected in the home computer backup database on machines with 512MB of RAM. More Information: Windows Home Server regularly checks the home computer backups for abnormalities. If it finds any, it will prompt the user to fix them […]

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Lights, Action, Home Server!

A couple of short videos for you: First up Todd Headrick, Product Manager on the Windows Home server Team demonstrates new hardware which will soon be available for Home Server in this video from Microsoft’s enthusiast site Channel 10. http://on10.net/blogs/nic/CES-2009-Windows-Home-Server-Update-New-Hardware/ Secondly, The Home server Show has a video interview with Allen Buckner of HP who […]

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WHS Travla RackMount Chassis

Mini-ITV enclosure manufacturer Travla have a great case which is great for Windows Home Server. The 1U 19" rackmount case incorporates 4 hot-swappable 3.5" SATA drive caddies and can be further expanded thanks to space for a further 2 x 2.5" drive bays as well as a slim CD/DVD bay. Travla recommend using the VIA […]

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Free 5 Year Signed SSL Certificate for MediaSmart Users

We discussed yesterday about the latest update package from HP being available for the EC470 and EX475. Today MediaSmartServer.net has more details that within that update package HP and TZO are now delivering a Comodo 5 year signed SSL certificate so that users using the TZO domain name will no longer experience a certificate warning […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast #31

The Home Server Show podcast #31 is now available with the latest news and views for the Home Server enthusiast. You can find it here.

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Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server Awards

The Media Center Awards Show podcast is available for listening, where host Ian Dixon announces the awards for various categories for Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server. It’s good to see that the best free Windows Home Server application award went to My Movies which was followed voting wise by Whiist and Grid Junction. […]

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HP EX470 and EX475 Software Update Package

MediaSmartServer.net is reporting that an update package for the HP MediaSmart Server EX470 and EX475 is available for download. Labeled as HPMSS-1.3-R1, the update has a built date of Jan 12 2009 and provides the following enhancements: Improves the image processing performance in HP Photo Webshare. The correct error messages are now displayed when using […]