SmallNetBuilder have a mini review of the WD DX4000 Sentinel.
Included is a look at the innards of the Sentinel particularly at the different chips involved.
It’s performance including RAID 5 file copy read and write performance are also listed, which you can read about here.
Sean Daniel has a post on his site explaining how to get your add-in listed on Microsoft Pinpoint.
Microsoft Pinpoint will list your add-in for you and Sean takes us through the free sign up process to get your add-in added, which you can find here.
SuperBiiz have the Windows Home Server 2011 software (CCQ-00128) for $49.99 with free shipping, but use the coupon code DRAGON and it will take 10% off, bringing the total down to just $44.99 saving you $5.
You can purchase from here but hurry as the coupon code expires 1/24.
Build 5452 of StableBit DrivePool has been released.
This latest build of the DE type add-in contains the following changes:
[D] = Driver was modified (reboot required on update)
More details on StableBit DrivePool can be found here.
Episode 169 of The Home Server Show podcast is available.
In this weeks edition:
“We dive deep into a blog post about Windows 8 and how the new Storage Spaces works. There are some telling points to discuss about the future of Windows Home Server and how storage management is changing for Windows. Plenty to discuss so give it a listen…”
You can find episode 169 here.
Gunnar Peipman on his ASP.NET blog says that Windows Home Server needs a new licensing scheme.
Gunnar is recommending that the base package should be 10 licenses as it is right now, but that there should also be an option to buy more licenses such as 5 more at a time on top if required.
You can read he’s post here.
Would you like to know how to get Windows Home Server to auto-login?
If so, Sean Daniel explains to us how to get this setup on your server by using the tools AutoLogin from sysinternals and Microsoft’s own SRVANY.EXE.
This is a great read if you have some applications that you need to run as a different, non-admin user, that aren’t services.
You can find Sean’s article here.
WireValley has a users Windows Home Server build list, this one powering WHS 2011 by a AMD Athlon 2 and 8GB of memory in a Thermaltake V3 Black Edition case.
Another users build list which you can find here.
SmartNAS is a desktop NAS product from Newtech for the small office running Windows Home Server 2011.
Up to 6 hard drives can be installed within the SmartNAS which is powered by a Atom dual-core processor and 4GB of memory. Complete with 1Gb LAN interface, 2x USB 3.0 ports and 2x USB 2.0 ports.
Also provided at a cost of 2980 yen (approx. $39) per month is "Cloud NuTech Recovery Services’ which will automatically back up data from the SmartNAS to data centers operated by NuTech.
The SmartNAS is the size of an A4 sheet of paper and available to the Japanese market is various configurations. For example the 1TB HDD × 2 (2TB total) is available for 88,000 yen ($1144), the 2TB HDD × 4 (8TB total) for 168,000 yen ($2184) and the 3TB HDD x 6 (18TB total) for 298,000 yen ($3874):
These different hard drive configurations also come with the following RAID Levels: 2-drive models: 0/1, 4 and 6 drive models: 0/1/10/5.
Scheduled for launch mid-January Newtech are hoping to sell 2,000 units by the end of March 2012 and expects to sell a further 10,000 in the first year. We will have to see at the prices Newtech are hoping for!
IBM have announced that after 5 years they have been able to reduce the number of atoms required to create a bit of data from about one million to 12.
This breakthrough will allow hard drive manufactures to produce much bigger capacity hard drives 100 to 150TB compared with 1TB
Today, hard drives use ferromagnetic materials where the spin of atoms are aligned or in the same direction but IBM used a form of magnetism called antiferromagnetism, where atoms spin in opposite directions, allowing scientists to create an experimental atomic-scale magnet memory that is at least 100 times denser than today’s hard disk drives.
More details are available at ComputerWorld.
