Category: News

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Podcast: The Business World and SBS

Focusing on the business benefits of technology, the CIAOPS Need to Know Podcast has Kevin Royalty on this weeks episode. Kevin who is a Small Business Server MVP talks about SBS and Windows Home Server in this hour long, episode 25: “In this episode I chat with SBS MVP Kevin Royalty about some of the […]

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The Home Server show Podcast Episode 175

Episode 175 of The Home Server Show podcast is available. And in this weeks episode: “It’s another week about the future.  Windows 8 and what it means to file systems, storage, and home servers.  We go over Storage Spaces in detail with Mike Faucher of the BYOB Podcast.  Lots of chat with zero news.  We […]

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Video: Storage Spaces in Server 8 – Still Not the Way To Go

After telling us about Storage Spaces in the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, Mike Faucher (aka PCDoc) is back this time demonstrating Storage Spaces in Server 8 for us which also includes the option of enabling the ReFS file system. Mike states: “I am still not convinced that Storage Spaces is the way to go, […]

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The BYOB Podcast Episode 80

Episode 80 of the BYOB podcast is up: …we talk to John Wills (aka jmwills from the forums) about his setup, networking overseas, and of course Windows 8.  We are joined by John Zajdler for the second half of the show to discuss Storage Spaces and other topics. You can catch episode 80 here.

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Windows 8 Storage Spaces – Not Worth Using for Anything Serious

PCDoc from the BYOB podcast has come to the conclusion that Windows 8 Storage Spaces feature is not up to par: …the performance of the Storage Spaces is pretty bad in comparison to a hardware solution…it is simply not worth using for anything serious. Although we must remember that Storage Spaces and Windows 8 is […]

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ViridianPC New Site Design and Competition

UK based ViridianPC have a new site design and are offering 1 pair of tickets to the Gadget Show Live taking place at the NEC Birmingham in April this year. For a chance to win head on over to the new ViridianPC home page.

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Video: Connect your iPad, iPhone or Android to WHS 2011 using My Movies

My Movies have posted the following video on how to connect either My Movies for iPad, iPhone or Android to your Windows Home Server running My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011, which allows you to download movies from your server to your mobile device: More information on My Movies can be found here.

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Video: Ultimate Windows Home Server Guide Part 1

NCIX Tech Tips have posted part 1 of their video "Ultimate Windows Home Server Guide". This 1st part from the US/CA shopping site goes into choosing the right hardware for their WHS 2011 build, and I must say its impressive. So if you have 11 minutes to spare, give it a view:

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StableBit DrivePool Beta Ending and a New Home

StableBit DrivePool is coming out of beta and also has a new home page. StableBit gave the following announcement: The DrivePool BETA is coming to an end. DrivePool now has a new home on http://stablebit.com/DrivePool And what a nice home it is too, with lots of information on all of the add-ins features and lots […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 174

Episode 174 of The Home Server Show podcast is available, and this week: “We are back with a ton of news.  Windows 8 and Storage Spaces are both still popular items for the week.  There are also a lot of software updates to talk about.” You can catch episode 174 here.