ServeTheHome.com have a great article on who is the best hard drive manufacturer according to the ratings on Newegg. The article looks at 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2TB internal drives and asks questions such as "Are drives larger than 1TB less reliable than 1TB drives?" and are OEM drives better than retail ones. An interesting read […]
HomeServerSync from Tranquil PC have released their first PDF newsletter which contains some news from the "dev" team as well as some useful tips re preparing for HomeServerSync. There’s also a brief scenario that typifies the service too. You can download their 3 page PDF News Letter 1 from here (approx 700k), whilst more information […]
The Home Server Show Podcast is chock full of news this week, where Dave and the guys talk Home Server. You can catch episode 94 here.
Geekazine.com have a side by side comparison of both the Data Vault X510 and X310, both from HP. As well as the article the guys also have a 5 minute video to go along with it, which you can find here.
WHS Folding is a Windows Home Server Add-in which we have mentioned before which is a distributed computing project to better understand protein folding, protein aggregation, and related diseases such as Alzheimer’s, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many Cancers. The add-in is currently in private beta but the author Kurt Anderson is looking for some […]
Want to build a Windows Home Server rig for around $500? Then Tested.com has the guide for you and a video too. The guys test an AMD CPU against an Intel model with some file transfer tests and power usage tests. You are then taken through the installation and configuration of Windows Home Server, including […]
Will Smith has posted his 6 Favorite Windows Home Server Add-Ins over on Tested.com “One of my favorite features of Windows Home Server is the ability to extend it’s capabilities using add-ins. Windows Home Servers’ add-ins range the gamut, from incredibly useful tools that help you keep your home server running reliably to goofy toys […]
Bob Muglia who is president of the Server and Tools Business (STB) at Microsoft gave an interview with CNET on the future of Windows Server products and about the shift to the cloud. The edited transcript is available for you to read here, but what is of interest to us is what he had to […]
The Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 Home Server gets review at Maximum PC who give it a 7 out of 10 rating. Their short review also has some benchmarks compared to a home brew Windows Home server, which you can find here.
Wayne Small’s backups started to fail on his Windows 7 PC which even hung when also trying a manual backup. On inspecting the log files it became apparent that the fail was happening at the VSS Snapshot attempts. Wayne run the VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS command as well as running a script to re-register the VSS […]
