The Sony Home Share (or shall we call it the Hockey Puck v2) is now available for purchase in the UK. The white VGF-HS1E comes complete with 2 x500GB SATA drives has Gigabit LAN and 3 x USB ports for £499, but you will also have to shell out another £100 for a copy of Windows Home Server to put on it.
More details are available at Sony UK as well as PDF product information.
Jungle Disk is an online backup solution for Windows Home server and the next major release is in deep development and should be available in beta shortly. The biggest change to this new 2.50 version is the ability for it to run as a background service on all platforms as well as a range of major new features.This release will lay the groundwork for the next major iteration of home server backup.
Jungle Disk Inc. stated in their blog that:
The Windows Home Server version of Jungle Disk was originally a bit of an experiment, to help understand the demand and needs of the Home Server / Home NAS backup market. One of the most important things we’ve learned over the last year is that the Windows Home Server platform alone isn’t really large enough to justify a stand-alone product, but there is a large amount of interest in online backup from users with other brands of home NAS devices…
So Jungle Disk will be supporting a range of NAS devices along with Windows Home Server and the separation of the backup service from the GUI in the 2.50 release will be a key step in allowing this to be done.
The porting of the software to these other devices will take some time, but in the end they plan to provide a unified online backup solution for the entire home server and NAS market.
Story courtesy of We Got Served.
MediaSmartHome.com has a tutorial on how to stream your iTunes music collection over the internet by using the included Firefly media server and FirePlay, a Flash based interface to the FireFly Media Server.
Once you have followed the 13 step tutorial, you will have Britney Spears streaming over the web to a laptop in your hotel room. (I’m not sure if that is a good thing or NOT 🙂
Read it here.
SCALEO Power Management Viewer is a new German language tool for those of you that own a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo Home Server. The tool enables you to see the Power Management details in a simple list.
More details are available in German or translated via Google translation into English.
Ian Dixon’s Blog has details that one of the most popular Media Center plug-ins is coming to Windows Home Server.
The movie collection management and playback application “My Movies” will work as a server for My Movies client applications and includes a fully automated Disk Copier. It also works as a meta-data provider for other applications like Microsoft’s DVD Library and will soon support XBMC without the need for installing the My Movies client.
Media Center enthusiast and fellow MVP Ian Dixon has posted about having a meet up next year with like minded enthusiasts. So what do you reckon to a UK event for Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center and other digital lifestyle product enthusiasts to meet and discuss tips or to show your home grown projects or to see the latest products demonstrated.
The sessions could cover the basics to advanced topics and would be a great opportunity to meet like minded enthusiasts.
This edition of The Home Server Show Podcast has snippets of the latest WHS news as well as your emails and a review of the online backup solution “KeepVault for Windows Home Server”.
You can listen here.
KeepVault is an online backup solution for Windows Home Server who were offering unlimited storage for only $99 per year. But this has now changed, Proxure the company behind the product now offer 100GB of storage for the same price as well as additional storage space if required, but for an extra charge. For example 500GB of storage is $449 per year, whilst 2TB is $1499, but this still compares favorably with Jungle Disk another online backup solution for Home Server.
More info here.
If your Windows Home Server is a MediaSmart Server from HP then there is a walk through on We Got Served on how to upgrade the NIC SiS191 drivers on the unit.
Get the details here.
After being away for a few days at Microsoft in Reading, it’s good to notice on my return home that three new guys have joined Microsoft’s MVP program for Windows Home Server. Existing MVP Donavon West of Home Server Hacks is now a WHS MVP as well as newcomer Sam Wood and Alex “Yakuza” from MediaSmartServer.com So a big congratulations to you all.
