The Windows Home Server Team Blog has a great 10 point chart highlighting the differences between a Home Server and a network attached storage device (NAS for short). After reading through the list, you may agree with one reviewer who called Home Server a "NAS device with a brain." The chart is available here.
The Home Server Show website has a two part gift guide especially for the Home Server enthusiast. From enclosures and docking stations to a UPS and external hard drives, the guide can be read here and here.
Gadget and computer hardware blog "CrunchGear" have a holiday gift guide dedicated to the HP MediaSmart Server with a chance to win it too. Available from here.
Blogger Christopher Price writes about the death of his Celeron D Home Server after the PSU literally exploded in front of his eyes. Chris explains how he was able to recover his data even though the motherboard also died at the same time. You can read the story here.
UK based magazine PC Pro have reviewed the SQA-5H Home Server from Tranquil PC and give it a respectful 5 out of 6 star rating. "As a cherry on top, Tranquil has thoughtfully installed the open-source Firefly media server, adding the ability to stream music over your LAN to iTunes and network devices." You can […]
You can get the HP MediaSmart Server EX470 from the HP Official Store for just $419.99 with free shipping. From the original price of $549.99 the following link will take you to a page with two lots of $50 rebates taken off. During checkout just add coupon code SV2132 for an extra $30 discount, bringing […]
Here is the new ARTiGo A2000 from Via Technologies. Based around a 1.5 GHz VIA C7-D processor and using the VIA VX800 Unified Digital Media IGP chipset. The ARTiGO A2000 can support up to 2 GB of 667/533 MHz DDR2 SODIMM memory and comes complete with Gigabit LAN. As well as space for two SATA-II […]
For ripping your DVD’s automatically using Windows Home Server, the new DVD Manager is the add-in to use. This free and easy solution supports ripping to various formats including to a folder or a WMV, AVI or ISO image. Please note that DVD Manager does not decrypt your DVDs so you will need an on-the-fly […]
My Movies for Windows Home Server version 1.03 is now available for download. The following improvements and fixes have been added from 1.02 PR4: Added: MusicBrainz as meta-data provider along with FreeDB.org Added: Option to receive Album Art from MusicBrainz/Amazon Added: Ability to embed Album Art into MP3, WMA and Flac Added: Ability to contribute […]
The Home Server Show #25 is up with the latest news and a round table discussion with Terry Walsh and Andrew Carr from We Got Served, Ian Dixon from The Digital Lifestyle.com and yours truly on gift ideas for the Home Server user. The show is available from here.
