As Server 8 will be the backbone behind the next version of WHS 2011 and SBS 2011 Essentials, we thought you may want to learn a bit about this next great Server operating system and its features. Our friend Tom Ziegmann has posted a list of Test Lab Guides for Windows Server “8″ Beta which […]
Paul Thurrott in his Windows 8 Feature Focus series talks Storage Spaces. Paul gives us his Storage Spaces 101 and shows us how it really works by taking us through its setup and configuration as well as comparing its features to Drive Extender from version 1 of Windows Home Server. You can read Windows 8 […]
After telling us about Storage Spaces in the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, Mike Faucher (aka PCDoc) is back this time demonstrating Storage Spaces in Server 8 for us which also includes the option of enabling the ReFS file system. Mike states: “I am still not convinced that Storage Spaces is the way to go, […]
StableBit Scanner for WHS 2011 has had an update. Version 2.0.0.1282 BETA of the advanced hard disk surface scanner and monitor includes the following changes: Do not show / scan Covecube virtual disks. Do not show / scan VHD virtual disks. Updated to licensing 2.0. Enabled SAT for non-USB drives. Added Background I/O option to […]
Episode 80 of the BYOB podcast is up: …we talk to John Wills (aka jmwills from the forums) about his setup, networking overseas, and of course Windows 8. We are joined by John Zajdler for the second half of the show to discuss Storage Spaces and other topics. You can catch episode 80 here.
PCDoc from the BYOB podcast has come to the conclusion that Windows 8 Storage Spaces feature is not up to par: …the performance of the Storage Spaces is pretty bad in comparison to a hardware solution…it is simply not worth using for anything serious. Although we must remember that Storage Spaces and Windows 8 is […]
Back in January of this year MVP Robert Pearman released the SBS 2011 Essentials Answer File Tool, and after a few suggestions Robert decided to release a version for WHS 2011 users too. The tool allows you to create and edit installation Answer Files for Windows Home Server 2011, allowing you to easily create files […]
UK based ViridianPC have a new site design and are offering 1 pair of tickets to the Gadget Show Live taking place at the NEC Birmingham in April this year. For a chance to win head on over to the new ViridianPC home page.
The final beta of Drive Bender is here in the form of version 1.2.5.0 (beta 4 of the Tomcat release) released 9th March 2012. Here’s the change log: Bug fix: During an upgrade from v1.2.x, it is possible that a drive could be added to the pool more than once. Update: Check disk feature is […]
The latest beta release of Home Server SMART 2012, which supports Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials has been released. Version 2.2.3.8 Beta 4 of the Windows Home Server disk monitoring add-in, is 100% free to use for personal and commercial use. This latest […]
