Drive Bender v2 is well under way and the plan from Division-M (the company behind it), is to roll out a number of staged releases (i.e. v2.0, v2.1 etc) with beta milestones in between. In the works is: VSS Support New user interface Network drive support Pool to Pool replication Drive specific duplication Cloud specific […]
StableBit DrivePool for WHS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, Windows Server 2012 Essentials and Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials has had an update. Version 2.0.0.400 RC has the following change log: Added DE, ES, FR, IT, PL localizations. When adding a RAW disk to the pool it would disappear from […]
WD have released 2.5" Red hard drives up to 1 TB and a 4TB 3.5" Red drive too. The 2.5" Red drives are available in 1TB (WD10JFCX $99) and 750GB (WD750BFCX $79) capacities, whilst the new 4TB 3.5" Red is available for $229 (WD40EFRX). Here is the full press release: IRVINE, Calif. – Sept. 3, […]
A nice infographic is available on the Coffee Coaching blog on the MicroServer Gen8: You can find it here.
Would you like to understand about licensing for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and the Windows Server Essentials Experience role then you may find the following article interesting. The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog have this great article which hopefully shall answer your licensing questions, which you can find here.
UK based Servers Plus have the N54L with £100 cashback for purchases between 1st and 30th September 2013. They are also offering a 3 Year Warranty Upgrade for just £20 extra. Just purchase the warranty for £96 ex VAT and claim a further £76 cash back, effectively making the care pack just £20 ex VAT! […]
Another fine episode of the Home Tech podcast is up: We spent the majority of the show talking about how John (Zajdler) is using Windows To Go on a 32GB Data Traveler Workspace drive from Kingston. We get an update from Paul (Baran) on the new release from VMware ESXi 5.5 just announced at VMWorld […]
If you are using WHS2011 with StableBit DrivePool and wish to to install an antivirus program then there’s a few things you will have consider. Eset NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials are 2 good products to install on WHS (only one at a time though) but make sure that you exclude the drives in the […]
Episode 235 of the Home Server Show is up and this week its mostly about their upcoming meetup: It’s a light week of news but Jim is back and I’m recovering from last week’s awesome show with the SBS Diva. This week we are talking Synology, Meetup, and my new T-shirt. Yes, a shirt. You’ll […]
The OEM division of Microsoft have released the following short video explaining WS2012 Essentials:
