Another day and another release for the Drive Extender replacement add-in Drive Bender. This latest beta release 1.1.6.0 (2011-07-26) includes the following changes: Bug fix: Under very heavy load, 0 byte files could appear if validation was running at the same time (these would appear on the same physical drive as the duplicate file). Bug […]
Version 1.1.5.9 of Drive Bender has just been made available which addresses a stability issue experienced by some users plus improved performance. Here’s the release notes for this beta version released 2011-07-25: Update: Changes to the way DB reports a pools total space. Mount points are now reloaded when the pools total space changes (changing […]
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.
The add-in Home Server Status has had a minor update to version 1.01. This update includes the following changes: Added a better routine for notifications of when a backup is running, completed, and cancelled. Added status messages to the taskbar icon. When you mouse-over, you get the thumbnail view but with status and a backup […]
For a good year and half now my EX490 has served me well as the only server in my household. It takes care of all essentials activities such as media sharing and backup. It’s the hub of my digital archives, the brain in the distributed backup solution and with VMware it’s my own little cloud. […]
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, […]
Unlike WHS v1, Windows Home Server 2011 does not have any popup or warning about when the Home Server is running a backup. That is until now. Thanks to Home Server Status, this add-in brings back the Windows Home Server v1 status icon to Windows Home Server 2011. You can choose to be advised of […]
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. […]
