Some WHS enthusiasts are using a Drobo alongside their Windows Home Server’s, so if you would like to read an out-of-box experience on this impressive piece of hardware then Byte online have such an article for you.
Drobo FS: Safe, Uncomplicated Network Storage For Non-Techies is a three page article by David McCabe which can be found here.
A viewer asks the question FreeNAS or WHS 2011 for streaming media
Patrick Norton and Robert Heron answers that question on Tekzilla:
Episode 154 of The Home Server show podcast is up, which this week has a little of everything:
…Skype bugs, Home Server news, Drive Extender Add-In’s, RAID, Amazon Fire, MyMovies speculation, Windows 8, and more Media Center talk than normal.
You can find it here.
For those of you running either Small Business Server 2011 Essentials or Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials (as well as Small Business Server 2011 Standard Edition) you will be notified of an update to the Best Practices Analyzer.
The September update to the Windows Server Solutions BPA adds 59 new rules. Currently the total number of checks per SKU are:
Small Business Server 2011 Essentials – 78
Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials – 30
More information on this update are available from here.
The Digital Lifestyle Show podcast this week talk Windows 8, Acer’s time traveling home server, DVBLink updates plus lots more.
You can find episode 322 here.
RC2 of DVBLink is now available.
With this software you can install tuner cards in your WHS which then become network aware allowing you to view the content on your Media Center PC.
Here is what has been new and fixed since RC1:
General
– Fixed: DVBLink sources/Connect server cannot be uninstalled if DVBLink server was uninstalled before them
– Fixed: Incorrect handling of <previously-shown> and <premiere> flags in xmltv
– Added: Categories to xmltv channels based on xmltv file nameDVBLink Connect Server
– Fixed: DVBLink server crash when playback of non-DVBLink channel is started from the DVBLink client
– Fixed: PlayReady error on DVBLink MediaCenter client when client is woken up from standby
– Fixed: DLNA server hangs on DVBLink server stop (server will stop correctly although DLNA server will not function)
– Fixed: IPhone/IPad cannot play HD channels
– Fixed: Incorrect video aspect ratio on Android client
– Fixed: Starting channel playback on Android hangs DVBLink server
– Added: Possibility to play channels via http url
– Fixed: Empty channel list in XBMC when connected do DVBLink DLNA server
– Added: Support for DVBLink Boxee clientDVBLink TVSource
– Fixed: Stuttering playback of RTL4 (HD), TV2 Nyhetskanalen and TV4 Sport channels
– Fixed: Weak signal tuner message in MediaCenter when DVBLink configuration page is opened or playback is started on another tuner
– Fixed: High CPU load (compared to v3) on some encrypted and HD channels
– Fixed: DVBLink server crashes in tvsource.dll or tvsource_info.dll when system has more than 8 tuners
Additional notes, installation instructions and the downloads can be found here.
TwonkyServer for Windows Home Server users has had an update.
The media server for WHS has been updated to version 6.0.37 which fixes several sync-related issues, and can be downloaded from here.
Drive Bender have announced on Twitter that Release Candidate 1 (1.2.0.0) is in final internal testing and come rain, hail or shine it will land on Tuesday, October 4th.
This is excellent news and is great to see Drive Bender steadily moving forward with their Drive Extender replacement add-in.
Here’s some screen shots of this upcoming RC1 release:
More screen shots can be found here.
If you were experiencing a Fast I/O issue when using StableBit DrivePool, then a fix has been posted in build 3955.
Version 1.0.0.3955 change log:
[D] = Driver
More details on StableBit DrivePool are available from here.
My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 has been updated to 2.10 Pre Release 4.
Here is their change log for this latest update:
This latest release of My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 can be downloaded from here.
