HotHardware reviews the Barracuda Green 2TB hard drive from Seagate and compares it to its direct competitor, WD’s Caviar Green. From the review it appears that the Seagate Barracuda Green has a performance advantage over WD’s Caviar Green: Seagate’s drive reached 124 MB/s and WD’s hit 125 MB/s. On the other hand, the Barracuda Green […]
The latest weekly episode of "The Home Server Show" podcast is available, and episode 145 has a lot of great stuff: This show started out as a news cast and ended up with a discussion on Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Home Server with Drive Extender, NAS boxes, and Drive Extender replacements. Have the add-in […]
Another episode of the BYOB podcast is available, and this week its about setup, network, WHS and HTPC courtesy of Bill Cabldevil. The BYOB crew also chat about their VM adventure trying to backup to a USB drive, which you can find in episode 52, which is available here.
Episode 144 of "The Home Server Show" podcast is up with lots of news and discussion. This week the guys talk media streaming, the price change for Windows Home Server 2011 and Drive Extender replacements. You can catch episode 144 here.
Microsoft have released another Learning Bites video for Windows Home Server 2011 and this one is on Homegroup setup. This video covers setting up Homegroup on your Windows Home Server, and connecting your PCs. You will also learn how to use PlayTo with Windows Media Player and Homegroup.
Tranquil PC have published a 10 page guide on restoring a LEO HS4 with WHS 2011 with the MonStor service. The MonStor service is Tranquil PC’s version of the Division-M Drive Bender add-in, providing Drive Extender functionality to Windows Home server 2011. So the question is in the event of a catastrophic primary HDD failure, […]
If you are using Windows Home Server 2011, you may have a problem restoring your client machine if you are running RAID with Intel Rapid Storage. This has occurred when using both RAID 0 and RAID 1 and the end of your log file will state that it can’t lock the volume for reason 5. […]
WD Small Business Server, RAID5 plus lots more are discussed on this weeks edition of BYOB, the podcast for the build your own box enthusiast. Episode 51 can be found here.
Thanks to our eager eyed readers for spotting even more great deals for those of thinking of purchasing a copy of Windows Home Server 2011. Newegg.com currently have it available for $59.99 which includes $10 off with promo code MSSERV10 which ends ends 7/22. In the UK CCL have it available for £37.44 inc VAT […]
A CloudBerry Backup user by the name of Alex Harden gives his opinion of the online backup solution for Windows Home Server users: Cloudberry transferred the folder structure and files without putting them in containers. I was able to navigate the folders and see the pictures from the S3 web console. Very cool. As I […]
