Announced back in February StableBit DrivePool for Windows Home Server 2011 is now in open beta. StableBit DrivePool is an add-in replacement for Drive Extender, which as we know was removed in WHS 2011, and provides the following features: Combine all your hard drives into one big storage pool (except the system drive with the […]
Sean Daniel has a great read about a fellow Microsoft employee’s father who, thanks to Windows Home Server, had a working PC again after it was infected with a nasty virus. “Fast forward to last night around 9:30 at night when my father calls me in a panic stating that my mom is going to […]
"Choosing the Right RAID Level for Your NAS Box" is the title of an article on PCWorld.com which is the ideal read for those of you thinking of using RAID with WHS2011. The article looks at the different RAID levels, starting with JBOB and finishing with RAID 5 and explaining which is best for different […]
Windows guru Paul Thurrott has announced on Twitter that Microsoft announced to him that a Windows Phone integration add-in for WHS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Storage Server 2011 Essentials would be available in 3-4 weeks time. Great news for Windows Phone users! Just shortly after, Paul also tweeted that Windows Home Server hardware would […]
Episode 43 of the BYOB podcast is available with lots of information about Windows Home Server with guest Ed Ramirez. And if you weren’t sure, BYOB stands for Build Your Own Box and this podcast is all about everything related to building PC’s, servers, HTPC’s, gaming rigs, and anything else they can get their hands […]
WHS2011 gives you plenty of storage management options. For example you may want to give each hard drive a separate drive letter or setup a RAID array for data duplication plus of course there are many more options. Paul Carvajal from MediaSmartServer.net takes us through his journey from WHS V1 to WHS 2011, along the […]
One of our readers here at MSWHS.com has come up with a automated configuration script to allow a samba share to be used with Time Machine. So if you are backing up your Mac to WHS2011 using Time Machine, then instead of going through these 7 steps to get it up and running, you can […]
Episode 135 of The Home Server Show podcast is available with the weeks WHS news and views and this week, ripping options and everything surrounding DVD storage and streaming. You can find episode 135 here.
If you are installing WHS 2011 and have a French keyboard, then the keyboard layout may be incorrectly changed to that of an English keyboard. To resolve this problem you will need to manually change the keyboard layout to French on the language bar by performing the following steps on the server itself by using […]
Sean Briscoe tells us about his custom WHS2011 build after coming from the HP MediaSmart. Sean explains how he arranged his folder structure and setup a RAID 1 array for his Documents, Music and Pictures and is using RAID 5 for his video content and client computer backups. You can read his post here.
