Back in September, when we reviewed Tranquil PC’s first Windows Home Server unit, the T7-HSA we loved its small, compact size which came with one big headache - a single internal drive and the lack of expansion options other than the use of external USB hard drives - which defeated the purpose of having such a small and neat [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 10, 2008
Sam Wood’s hard at work with another update for his popular add-in, WHS Disk Management which is now at version 1.0.5.0. Sam posted news of the update over at the WHS Disk Management forums here at We Got Served. 1.0.5.0 - Update Added: Disk Information now includes Volume Shadow Copy size Changed: Storage information panel on main tab now [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 8, 2008
Model: Piranha Home Server Manufacturer: LEO Computer Website: http://www.leo-computer.de/ Price: TBC Whilst Windows Home Server may very much be a product of the United States (supported by some of their friends over at Microsoft China), it has been Europe that has led the way developing and launching hardware systems for the platform. Within Europe, the UK and Germany are front and centre in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 7, 2008
What is disk fragmentation and why does it happen? As files are stored, moved, deleted, updated and so on, over time they can be potentially stored on different areas of the disk rather than in a single block. This is called disk fragmentation. There could be thousands of parts of files scattered all over the disks [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 3, 2008
Sam Wood has released an update to WHS Disk Management this morning with a number of new features, including the abilty to edit disk names and the addition of SMART status and temperature viewing in the Windows Home Server console. Version 1.04 has the following changes: 1.0.4 - Update Added: Editable disk names - open the Disk Info [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Raxco will today release an update to their PerfectDisk range of disk defragmentation software, including a new version of PerfectDisk for Windows Home Server. PerfectDisk8 for Windows Home Server brings the full functionality of Raxco’s server-grade defragmentation products to Windows Home Server, although they are yet to integrate the software into the Windows Home Server Console, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 28, 2008
Sam Wood has updated his add-in, Windows Home Server Disk Management to version 1.0.3. Here’s what’s changed: 1.0.3 - Update Added: Right-click menu for disk operations Added: Disk information detail. Select a disk and click the info button, double click a disk, or right click a disk and select Details Added: Non-storage pool disks with drive letters now show details [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 20, 2008
The folks over at Diskeeper Corporation have posted instructions on their company blog that gives in depth guidance on how to accomplish an installation of Diskeeper 2008 for Windows Home Server. They readily admit, as pointed out by several of their customers, that there is very little in the documentation that accompanies the downloaded files of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 20, 2008
A new edition of Raxco’s disk defragmentation software, PerfectDisk 2008 for Windows Home Server will arrive next week with a new “home site” license that will allow up to 10 clients to use the software (up from the existing edition’s 5 client maximum). This matches the maximum number of clients that can be installed on [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 15, 2008
As you’re aware, an obscure, but particularly nasty bug was highlighted in Windows Home Server’s Drive Extender technology in December, that in some cases could corrupt files on the home server that were being edited in certain applications. The Microsoft Knowledge Base article communicating the bug was updated this week, bizarrely removing a lot of the background [...]
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Monday, February 11, 2008
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