The latest edition of The Home Server Show podcast has a roundtable discussion with those in the know about Windows Home Server, as well as the latest news, views, email and the add-in of the week.
You can listen or download episode #58 from here.
The add-in author interviews continue over at HomeServerLand, and this weeks culprit is fellow friend and MVP Donavon West.
Donavon is better known for his Home Server Hacks website, for his @WHSTweet add-in and for his Windows Home Server related desktop gadgets for Windows Vista/7.
You can read the interview with Donavon here.
The Using Windows Home Server website has a review of the new P80 add-in for Windows Home Server.
P80 is a website which you view via the home page of your WHS which allows you to view various aspects of your WHS in one easy to use web page, just like you can from within the console but in one central location including things that would require you to remote desktop into the WHS.
Reviewer "fasthair" goes through the installation and configuration of the add-in, which you can read here.
Cougar has been busy working on a WordPress add-in for Windows Home Server.
WordPress is what mswhs.com is powered by, and is a superb open source blogging platform. In the past if you wanted to install WordPress onto WHS, it would take a lot of work and configuration, but now the WordPress add-in has just simplified things. But you will have to wait a few days for the first beta build.
More details are available from here.
We have some downloads, pics and a video of the new X510 from HP for you.
As we can see this beauty looks exactly like the new EX49x range from HP.
The front and back in more detail.
Also available is this short 1 minute video highlighting the Data Vault.
The data sheet with all the specs is now available for download from HP in US English and UK English, and we are also hosting a EMEA region data sheet, as well as a Data Vault Brochure and a 12 page Data Vault White Paper.
With the announcement on the new HP StorageWorks range of Home Server’s for small businesses the X510 is already available for pre-order from both MacMall and the Small & Medium Business Store at HP.
MacMall has the X510 1TB model for pre-order for $719.99 whilst HP have all 3 configurations of the X510 available at a cheaper $699 for the 1TB model to $999 for the 3TB model.
HP’s all 3 configurations side by side.
HP have just announced the Data Vault, a server which is based on Windows Home Server and targets the small business market.
HP has the consumer market covered with the LX195 and EX49x range of Windows Home Server’s, but now hope to corner the small business sector too with the announcement of the HP StorageWorks X500 Data Vault series of servers.
This new range will help small businesses with up to 10 PC clients and Mac’s to easily protect their important business data, to easily share files regardless of location, and off course to automate backups too.
The business owner can save money through a low purchase price, which is up to 22 percent less than comparable solutions, and off course the peace of mind of vital data being backup up on a daily basis.
The first model available will be the X510, which will be available with either a one 1TB hard drive, two 1TB drives or three 1TB drives. All three configurations will comprise the same hardware which is a Intel Pentium E5200 dual core processor running at 2.5 GHz along with a 2GB stick of RAM, as well as the normal gigabit Ethernet, plus external expansion via 4x USB 2.0 ports and an eSATA port.
The HP StorageWorks X500 Data Vault range will be available in the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand with an estimated U.S. street price starting at $699 for the 1TB model, $859 for the 2TB and $999 for the 3TB model. All 3 units are expected to start shipping on the 6th October (2009).
UPDATE: UK list pricing has just been announced at £419.79 for the 1TB model, £516.34 for the 2TB and £599.95 for the 3TB model, although actual street pricing should be lower than this.
More details are available from here.
South African lecturer Minnaar Pieters has been building a Windows Home Server over the weekends in his home town of Stellenbosch in South Africa.
Minnaar got hold of a HP low end tower server for his build and shares his hardware thoughts and installation through his first 2 parts of his story, such things as:
The Windows Home Server Team have posted an update on their blog stating that Power Pack 3 has been delayed until the end of 2009.
The post stated that the team’s top priority is to ensure the absolute highest level of product quality, and that they will continue with additional testing of the software.
The post then stated:
“As with past software releases, our team will not ship the official final release of Power Pack 3 until the community has validated our work. We expect to deliver before the end of the year.”
So, ok it may be delayed, but at least all the bugs will be ironed out before we get our mitts on the final code.
Their full post is here.
What can you do with:
a) A Windows Home Server machine
b) A 2TB Hard Drive
and finally
c) A Freezer
After hearing a horrible clicking noise from his hard drive Shawn Steele eventually got the data off his drive by placing it into his freezer, after which WHS could read the data off of it…umm frozen data!
Read Shawn’s story here, and PS I don’t recommend ANYONE placing there hard drive in the freezer. If you do you are on your own.
