Mitch Garvis has a great primer on Storage Spaces which takes us through the process of creating a Storage Pool and how to extend it if the need arises: Storage Spaces are going to revolutionize the way we (as administrators) think about storage. We can now hot-add drives to volumes and extend them in seconds […]
The beta build of StableBit DrivePool has had an update. Version 1.3.0.7252 has the following changes: File evacuation is now more persistent. Added new .config option FileBalance_EvacuationPadding. Fixed some memory leaks in the Dashboard. Show the pool statistics for the correct pool after removing a missing disk. [D] Merged changes from 1.2.2 to 1.2.4. [D] […]
The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog has a post on using Windows Server 2012 Essentials with more than 25 users. The post explains how to run Essentials as one of your two virtual instances once you have a Windows Server 2012 Standard license. Scenario’s are also taken a look at in this […]
The Archive Optimizer plug-in for StableBit DrivePool has had an update. With this plug-in you designate one or more disks as special Feeder disks. Feeder disks will receive all new files created on the pool. It will be the balancer’s job to move all the files from the Feeder disks to the Archive disks in […]
StableBit Scanner for WHS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has had an update. Version 2.2.0.2819 has the following changes: Advanced format sector information was not being reported properly. Updated with SATA 3.1 spec. Fixed pointer overflow in Microsoft’s library when showing SMART ignore warning dialog. Added new welcome screen with […]
The add-In Drive Bender has been updated to version 1.4.5.5. This release brings with it some major performance tweaks: Update: Enabled some of the low level caching to improve pool enumeration and access speed. This caching can improve some operation by up to 10 times. Bug fix: Under some extreme circumstances, file reads while using […]
Its another week and its time for another episode of "The home Server Show" podcast. This week its episode 208: Update Rollup 4 is out for Windows Home Server 2011 and John, Jim, and Dave are here to dissect it. There are new Microservers, Drobo 5N, Western Digital Sentinal, 6 watt processors, you name it! […]
The latest release of CloudBerry Backup v 3.2 has Smart Restore functionality built in for Amazon Glacier, which allows you to manage your data restore in an intelligent way: When you run a Restore Wizard for Glacier and select the data to restore it will estimate the total restore size and the associated costs. It […]
The v2 BETA build of iHomeServer (for iTunes) has had an update. Version 2.2.23.0 can be downloaded from here. The current features being tested in the pre-release versions include: •2.2.3.0: Internet metadata lookups from The Movie DB, The TV DB.com and tagChimp •2.2.3.0: Auto-tagging of movies in watch folders (optional) •2.2.3.0: Rapid Auto-tagging of TV […]
HP have published the specs of the new N54L ProLiant MicroServer, in a 21 page PDF file. Here’s the overview: Processor: AMD Turion™ II Neo N54L (2.2GHz) AMD RS785E/SB820M chipset Memory: Two (2) DIMM slots 2GB (1x2GB) Standard or 4GB (1x4GB)/8GB Maximum, using PC3-10600E DDR3 Unbuffered (UDIMM) ECC memory, operating at max. 800MHz Storage Controller: […]
