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By Philip Churchill on May 27th, 2011

I-O DATA will have WHS2011 Hardware

We informed you last week of Windows Home Server going on sale in Japan as well as many other countries, and from this event in Japan came some interesting news. As we can see from the following pic, I-O DATA have a Windows Home Server 2011 NAS coming soon:

This unit will be equipped with a D510 (1.66) dual core Atom processor and will be available in both 1TB and 2TB hot swappable configurations and can easily be expanded using the 2x rear eSATA ports or 5x USB ports (Front × 1, rear × 4).

RAID 0 and 1 are both supported and the unit has dual LAN ports, a VGA port and a DC in jack connector for the external PSU unit and both configurations will have 2GB of memory.

No pricing as of yet but we will keep you informed of further updates.

Thanks to Japanese MVP Masahiko Sada, the PC DIY Shop and I-O DATA for the images.

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By Philip Churchill on May 27th, 2011

Add-In: StableBit DrivePool Build 1675 Beta

Wow…These guys are quick at fixing things and its the 3rd update this week.

StableBit DrivePool is now at build 1675, and includes the following minor changes:

Removing a folder with read-only files would error out with an access denied.
Fixed open context enumeration error (affects new remove drive code).
Do not notify about un-duplicated files if there are missing disks.

More information on StableBit DrivePool is available here.

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By Philip Churchill on May 26th, 2011

Organizing Music on a Home Server

Organising Music on a Home Server is an article by Dan Gravell which takes a look at the different types of Home server’s including a NAS and WHS itself and how they are ideal for storing music.

The article looks at why you can grant access to the music for your music players around your house and build and maintain your music collection by using rule based music organization software and automate its use.

Dan’s article is available here.

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By Philip Churchill on May 26th, 2011

The Features of Windows Home Server 2011

PCWorld takes a look at Windows Home Server 2011 and its features and asks if its worth upgrading to if you are using the current version of WHS.

Lloyd Case then takes us through a basic setup of WHS2011 using a mini-ITX setup, to see how things have improved.

You can read Lloyd’s article here.

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By Philip Churchill on May 26th, 2011

Add-In: StableBit DrivePool Build 1671

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Another day and another release for StableBit DrivePool.

The Drive Extender replacement add-in is now up to build 1671, and includes the following changes:

[Driver] Tweaked the unmount timeout algorithm to prevent automatic unmount on sleep.
Fixed alert monitoring error.
Write error notifications were not being issued for non-duplicated folders. (you may need to delete the old monitoring error alert)

More details are available on the StableBit DrivePool Wiki.

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By Philip Churchill on May 26th, 2011

The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 137

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Episode 137 of The Home Server Show podcast is available with lots of Home Server news, as well as lots of chat from Dave and the guys.

You can grab episode 137 here.

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By Philip Churchill on May 25th, 2011

Add-In: WHS Phone for Windows Phone 7 Version 1.3

Version 1.3 of WHS Phone for Windows Phone 7 is now available in the marketplace.

WHS Phone is a phone application for Windows Home Server. Connect to your server and browse files, stream music, view photos, and much more. Available now in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.

This latest release, includes:

Completely new UI
Streamlined Photo browsing
Cleaned up the Audio Playback
Added Server Restart and Shutdown
Added full search of shares (uses windows search)
Added photo upload from the Gallery and/or SD card
Ability to download ANY file to your phone
Added the ability to add Users and Shares from the phone
Video Streaming

WHS Phone for Windows Phone 7 can be downloaded from the marketplace and is priced at $4.99 (£3.99).

Additional details on WHS Phone are available from here.

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By Philip Churchill on May 25th, 2011

Tranquil PC Go Multilingual

British based Tranquil PC are now shipping Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials with various EU languages, along with full OEM Server Recovery Support

We are told what Czech, Poland and Russia will follow shortly – Great news for those Windows Home Server users where English is not their native tongue.

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By Philip Churchill on May 25th, 2011

Add-In: AWIECO WakeOnLAN 1.1.0 and PRO Version Available

The add-in which gives you the ability to remotely turn ON a computer attached to your network has had an update.

Here is the AWIECO WakeOnLAN 1.1.0 ChangeLog:

Improved UI design – The user interface now has a new design
Added PRO edition - The PRO version is a commercial version and available for purchase. It offers more features compared to the FREE edition. All upcoming features of WakeOnLAN are included in the license fee and will be implemented in the WakeOnLAN PRO version.
Added User permissions – The possibility to set user permissions has been added to the PRO version. With this feature the administrator can allow or deny users to wake up computers from the Remote Web Access website or the Launchpad.

The pro version is available for WHS2011 at 9.95 Euro and SBS 2011 Essentials at 19.95 Euro.

More details are available from here.

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By Philip Churchill on May 25th, 2011

Add-In Company Launching WHS Hardware

AWIECO the company responsible for add-ins such as AWIECO WakeOnLAN and AWIECO RemoteLauncher are planning to launch hardware too.

Due to be available at the end of June, AWIECO are launching a range of Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials powered systems from Germany.

Available in different configurations these servers combine design, performance, low power consumption and fanless operation:

The compact and robust case made of aluminum and acrylic glass is a real eye-catcher. On the front-panel are a Power and HDD LED as well as a display, which shows status information about the CPU usage or LAN utilization for example. Big cooling rips on the side of the server provide an optimum cooling of the CPU and the entire server. Moreover, a special passive hard disk cooling system is on the top. The temperature of the hard drives is constantly monitored and if the temperature reaches the limit caused for example by high workload or high ambient temperature, then two silent security fans will become active in case of necessity to ensure a fast cooling of the system

Inside either an Intel Atom processor of the latest generation is working or for more demanding users an Intel Core i3 or i5 Sandy Bridge processor. On the back of the server up to 5 hard drives can be added quickly and easily. Through the support of 3TB hard disks up to 15TB can be used in total of storage for the own data. The 64-Bit operating system Windows Home Server 2011 or Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials is preinstalled on a separate 24×7 optimized hard disk inside the case.