HP have announced the HP StorageWorks X300 Data Vault. Following on from its big brother with the X500 range, the X300 comes in at under $600 for the 1TB capacity model and is powered by the Intel Atom Dual Core processor running at 1.6 GHz. The HP StorageWorks X310 1TB Data Vault will be shipping […]
Tranquil PC have announced pricing details for their personal cloud storage service, "HomeServerSync". The HomeServerSync suite (or HSS) will cost £139 an annum including VAT (Ex VAT = £118.30), and includes: 10x client licences for Secure Synchronisation from/to Home Server unit (local or remote) 10x client licences to access WHS functions – console/backups/shares (remote) 1x […]
Cloudberry Backup for Windows Home Server has had an update. Version 1.5 has usability enhancements, bug fixes and introduces: "Simple Mode" which allows you to create a data structure on your Amazon S3 storage that completely mirrors the data structure on your local disk. There are no wired folders and you can access your data […]
AbsolutelyWindows.com takes a look at the StorageWorks x510 Data Vault from HP. As a media server, this device is without peer. It served up everything required without a hiccup. The X510 (and EX495) is a SmallBizWindows Superstar product, which you can read about here.
If you have a failed backup in Windows Home Server then Ashish Mohta explains how to manually clean it by using the Task Scheduler in Home Server when the space may be needed. You can read his post here.
The UK Windows Media Center and Home Server User Group Meeting takes place on June 12th in Birmingham, UK. I was fortunate to attend last years meeting which took place in a evening slot, but this years event will be a whole day event from 10am till 4pm. This longer time frame will give presenters […]
WHS enthusiast Richard Hay explains the critical steps necessary when preparing to do your own hardware upgrade on your Home Server. From the final backup before upgrading to bios setup for the new motherboard and finally restarting the discovery process, Richard takes you through the process which you can read about here.
Joe’s backups started to fail on his Windows Home Server, with the following message: "The computer failed to take a snapshot of the volume for backup." Joe found out that the error was due to his Windows 7 PC not having enough free space on the system reserved partition, with the solution to expand this […]
The add-in WHS Thumbnailer has been updated to version 1.0.0.3 Beta. The thumbnail generator for Windows Home Server includes the following changes (28 May 2010): Fixed a bug where thumbnails would overwrite files with existing names if already present More prep work for localization REALLY increased maximum thumbnail dimensions to 2048 * 2048 this time! […]
Tech Evangelist Richard Hay has a great post on how Windows Home Server just keeps on working. I am here today to tell you that WHS just keeps on keeping on. Without much interference from me it sits in the corner of our home office and backs up each PC at night and is the […]
