Yesterday Western Digital (WD)announced the availability of their new offerings in the Caviar Green line. The $189 2.5TB model and the 3.0TB priced at $239. Both models are SATA 3 Gb/s, come with 64MB of Cache and being of the Green variety only consume 6 watts during read/write operations and less than 1 watt during […]
Have a question or problem? I can’t guarantee an answer, but I’ll try. Click ask a question above! Arthur Asks: Is there an app which allows me to stream music from my WHS to my android phone? Currently there is no app current or planned available to view any WHS resources via the Google Android […]
Episode 108 of The Home server Show podcast is up with the weeks Home Server news and a look at what we looked at earlier this week, James Tenniswood’s HP Microserver verses the Acer h340 article. Episode 108 can be found here.
Microsoft have published revision 2.0 of their Knowledge Base article: “IShareEngine fails in a Windows Home Server-based computer when you publish a share” The article discusses share-publishing operation failure when creating a share in HomeGroup and Windows Home Server. A hotfix is available from Microsoft to fix this problem, of which more information is available.
The Athlon II X3 445 Rana CPU from AMD could be an ideal processor for Windows Home Server. The triple core 3.1GHz Rana CPU is taken a good look at by ServeTheHome.com who take a look at its power consumption, test its performance and compare it with similar models. You can find their review here.
The Tenniswood Blog has a performance comparison between the HP Microserver vs the Acer h340. The HP almost has a 2,5X faster processor but not on memory performance. More details including a graph are available here.
Site contributor Andy Mills is running his current Windows Home Server setup, along with two Linux servers (used for an online gaming server) and a private WordPress website development environment all with VMware ESXi. Andy explains how he created a virtual Windows Home server and setup the optical iSCSI storage for it too. A very […]
Of late, I have been doing a weekly mailbag on my own site matthewglover.co.uk. People have been emailing me, asking questions to do with all sorts of issues with windows, browsers, office and many other things for years, and it has been a big success. Now I have recently expanded on this, directly replying to […]
AVA Media NVT (Network Video Transcoder) is a new add-in from Tranquil PC for Windows Home Server and Media Centre owners, who want a simple tool to transcode ripped DVDs to other formats including the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, PS3 and the Xbox360. The free ad-in runs in the background and utilizes the power of […]
Did you know that you can customize the health and monitoring alerts built into Windows Home Server Vail? Vail allows you to insert a “SmartHost” email server that you can send mail through, which could be an email server that lives out on the Internet that you have access to, or the one at your […]
