We announced yesterday details about the new Home Server, the IdeaCentre D400 from Lenovo and today we have more details and pricing info available for you. The Key Features of the US specified IdeaCentre D400 Home Serve will be: Dimensions: 200mm horizontal X 210 vertical X 220 depth Processor: Atom 230 (single) 1.6 GHz Memory: […]
A new add-in by the name of WhsDbDataDump has been produced. Similar to WhsDbDump, WhsDbDataDump will extract the actual backed up data out of the Windows Home Server Backup database. This add-in will also work with broken databases, supporting extracting data from databases with missing dat files and simply filling in the missing clusters with […]
Lenovo Press on Twitter have posted a pic of Lenovo’s first Home Server, the IdeaCentre D400. The D400 is already available in Asia with 4 hot swappable hard drive bays 4 USB ports and an eSATA port and with a power consumption of only 40W. Looking very similar to the Acer Aspire easyStore (apart […]
You may have noticed that for the last 14 hours or so MSWHS.com hasn’t been here and instead surfers had the following notice displayed: “This blog has been archived or suspended for violation of our Terms of Service.” As you can tell we are back and Mark from WordPress.com (our host) has apologised for the […]
I have been looking for an add-in recently that could handle WOL (wake on LAN) for me directly from my WHS, my main aim was to be able to login to my WHS via my login page (http://xxxxxx.homeserver.com) and login to my WHS console and wake the relevant machine up, thus allowing me save energy […]
Episode 52 of The Home Server Show podcast is now available with the latest news and views from David McCabe and the team. You can catch it here.
Website HomeServerLand has details that Microsoft’s TechNet site has an interesting 10 section getting started series geared towards using Windows Home Server as a backup solution in your small business. The full series is available here.
PCMag.com has a review of the Acer Aspire easyStore H340. The review looks at the design, features and performance of the unit and give it 3/5. Why? Author Mario Morejon had this to say: “I had to use everything I know when configuring the network on the Acer Aspire easyStore H340. It’s not Acer’s fault, […]
The Media Center Blog has a walkthrough of the add-in "My Movies for Windows Home Server", which in this part 1 looks at the installation and the configuration of the add-in. And if you are wondering what My Movies for Windows Home Server does? It’s basically a movie collection management and playback add-in which also […]
Notebooks.com has a list of suggestions for backing up your Notebook which includes amongst others, using a Windows Home Server and a manual offsite backup strategy. You can read Develop a Solid Backup Strategy for Your Notebooks Before It’s Too Late here.
