Microsoft confirmed at Tech Ed in New Zealand yesterday that Windows Server 2012 will be available for purchase and download as planned today. New Zealand will be the first country in the world to be able to purchase and download Windows Server 2012 due to their position near the international date line, with more countries […]
Windows Server 2012 arrives tomorrow September 4th as it RTM’s worldwide. And to celebrate be sure to play the "Save the Date" game to win prizes on launch day. Also tomorrow at 8:00AM PST Microsoft President Satya Nadella presents a keynote on Windows Server 2012 which will certainly be worth a watch. And a week […]
My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 have a new pre-release version available. Version 2.13 PR1 has the following change: Added: Option to use external storage devices instead of only internal storage. More information on My Movies for Windows Home Server is available from here.
Mitch Tulloch and the Windows Server team have released a new updated version of the FREE e-Book for IT professionals: Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition. This 256-page eBook has 5 chapters of detailed technical content: Building a foundation for Private Cloud Understand the latest improvements that takes Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V beyond basic […]
CrashPlan are currently offering a 20% off back to school special on their online backup service. CrashPlan is an ideal solution for Home Server users to back up their data to the cloud. Through to September 8th they are offering 20% off their plans. For example their individual unlimited backup plan is normally $49.99 but […]
Blogger Tim Anderson helps us understand Windows 8 Storage Spaces, a confusing but powerful new feature in Microsoft’s next operating system: “Storage Spaces is a way of virtualising disk drives. You manage physical drives in a pool of storage, and allocate virtual drives from that pool. The virtual drives can be bigger than the actual […]
Its another week and its time for another episode of ""The Home Server Show podcast: We start out with the 2nd Annual Meetup date and details. You don’t want to miss it! I’ll be talking a lot about Synology and differences between 2 and 4 bay units. Synology also has a new box coming out […]
The beta release of StableBit DrivePool has been updated to support 3rd party balancing plug-in’s. Here is the full change log for version 1.2.0.6817 BETA: Enabled 3rd party balancing plug-in support. To write your own plug-in see: http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_-_Develop_Balancing_Plugins Pool size chart vanished when pool had < 1KB of data. Balance ratio will not decrease unless […]
Drive Bender have refreshed their website and to celebrate are offering a strictly limited 20% discount on all licenses of Drive Bender. So if you are a WHS 2011 user then now is a good time to buy as Drive Bender for WHS will only cost you $15.95 USD instead of the regular $19.95. Drive […]
ServeTheHome have a RAID Reliability Calculator available. ServeTheHome have a RAID Reliability Calculator which is a simple Simple MTTDL (Mean Time to Data Loss) Model: “Simply put, this calculator will give you a fairly good idea regarding which RAID level is the most reliable given a number of drives. Also, if you do not believe […]
