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An update to StableBit Scanner is available for download for WHS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials.
Version 2.0.0.2384 BETA has the following changes:
More details on StableBit Scanner are available from here.
PCDoc tested Storage Spaces on the Server 8 Beta back in March and was not impressed with the results, but now with the release of a new version PCDoc wanted to see if performance was improved, BUT was it?
You can find out by reading PCDoc’s article Storage Spaces Performance–Server 2012.
Michael Leworthy Senior Product Manager at Microsoft gives us an overview on Windows Server 2012.
This 77 minute video is from TechEd 2012 and can be found here on Microsoft’s Channel 9 network.
P.S. 45 minutes in Michael talks about storage in Windows Server 8 which is the part us Home Server fans are interested in the most!
A nice compo comprising the PRIMERGY MX130 S2 Server System with an AMD Sempron 145 2.8GHz Single-Core CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB SATA III HD and WHS 2011.
Release Candidate 2 of DVBLink products v4.5 are available for download.
What is new/fixed from RC1:
General
DVBLink TVSource
DVBLink Connect! Server
DVBLink AnalogTV
DVBLink for Dreambox
Installation instructions, additional notes and the downloads can be found here.
My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 has been updated to version 2.11 PR5 (Build 2).
Here’s the change log:
More details on My Movies for Windows Home Server is available from here.
StableBit DrivePool has been updated with a small folder details update and other fixes.
Version 1.0.2.6278 BETA has the following changes:
More details can be found on the DrivePool Development BETA Wiki.
StableBit Scanner for WHS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has had an update to ad a new scan mode and for fixes:
When enabled, verification sector commands will be sent directly to the disk.
The drive will read the entire contents of the sector and verify the checksum, without returning any actual data.
This will speed up disk scanning over BUS limited devices, such as USB 2.0, or if you have many disks connected to the same controller.
Because this scan method hardly consumes any bandwidth, you can scan as many disks at the same time as you want, even on the same controller.
Heat throttling continue to function, yielding on overheating disks. Scan throttling still needs to be optimized for this scan mode.
Direct I/O scanning requires Direct I/O to be available on the disks being scanned.
If it’s not, then the standard scanning method will be used. In addition, the Scanner will perform some statistical analysis while performing sector verification and will disable it on some disks if it is not working properly with your particular enclosure.
More information on StableBit Scanner can be found here.
Episode 187 of The Home Server Show podcast is available for your listening pleasure:
“…we are talking about the UR3 Beta for Windows Home Server, Amazon’s music player for Android and iOS, and we go over the SkyDrive app installed on Windows Home Server and how you can get to your files remotely. All this and the week’s news.”
You can find episode 187 here or you can watch the podcast on YouTube:
