Have you successfully been able to stream content from Windows Home Server to a Playstation 3?
There are numerous suggestions available on the net to set this up, put some users can still face DNLA errors.
Thankfully the persistence of HomeServerHeaven paid off, as they finally got it working correctly, which you can read about here.
If you have any of the Western Digital (WD) Green hard drives are you experiencing random errors or low performance during reading and writing?
If so, then you are not alone. It appears that certain models of the WD Green drives will eventually give low performance during the reading and writing of data. This has been seen by at least one user and by NAS producer Synology.
From information gathered from different sources, the only reliable models in the Green range from WD are the following:
You can read additional information about this story here.
Microsoft’s Windows Live Team reported the other day via a Tweet that the average person has over 7000 photos and videos between their PC and devices.
It’s just another reason why you should be using Windows Home Server if you are not already.
With Windows Home Server not detecting certain NIC network drivers during the install process, Kelvyn Taylor has a post on how to locate the drivers for both Realtek and Intel.
Kelvyn directs us to a generic Realtek driver and explains where to find and install the Intel driver onto a USB key.
You can read the details here.
We announced last week that DVBLogic had released version 3 of the DVBLink Server Network Pack. The good news now is that DVBLink TVSource is now at version 3 too as well as all their other DVBLink products.
More details are available on what’s new and fixed in both DVBLink TVSource V3.0 and DVBLink Server Network Pack v3.0.1.
If you are using the free web-based media streamer Subsonic, the the guys at AwsomeGeeks.com has a great guide on how to secure your off-network access to it.
By using Tomcat with OpenSSL and having a DynDNS account, their guide explains how to get the free media streamer up and running securely.
There is a great 9 minute video on YouTube of the unboxing and first look at the Asus TS mini Home Server.
Presented by Linus Tech Tips, its a great video which you can find here.
ServeTheHome.com have a great article on who is the best hard drive manufacturer according to the ratings on Newegg.
The article looks at 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2TB internal drives and asks questions such as "Are drives larger than 1TB less reliable than 1TB drives?" and are OEM drives better than retail ones.
An interesting read with many facts and figures which you can read here.
A Product Manager for Twonky announced last week 9th June 2010) that starting with TwonkyServer version 6.0 there will no longer be a dedicated Windows Home Server build of the media streaming software. This was because the normal versions of TwonkyServer being much more stable and better performing due to them getting more testing and bugs being fixed much more quickly on these releases.
This does not mean that Windows Home Server is no longer supported by TwonkyServer, as the standard Windows version of the software can be installed on either XP, Vista, Windows 7 or WHS.
But to install this latest version you need to connect to Home Server using remote desktop and create the share folder and configure TwonkyServer for it to work, and luckily for us Twonky have released a 8 page PDF document which takes you through these details, which you can download from here.
HomeServerSync from Tranquil PC have released their first PDF newsletter which contains some news from the "dev" team as well as some useful tips re preparing for HomeServerSync. There’s also a brief scenario that typifies the service too.
You can download their 3 page PDF News Letter 1 from here (approx 700k), whilst more information on the HomeServerSync service is available from here.
