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How to: Protect Bare Hot Swappable Hard Drives

Saturday, July 26, 2008

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How to: Protect Bare Hot Swappable Hard Drives

Got some bare hard drives laying around gathering dust?  Here's a simple, yet elegant, storage idea to try out.

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How to…..Install an External Hard Drive on Windows Home Server

Friday, May 16, 2008

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How to…..Install an External Hard Drive on Windows Home Server

Spring is here in the UK, the sun is shining and green stuff has started to sprout all over the place in a burst of new activity. Now seems the right time to spring into action myself and add some extra storage to my WHS. I have been keeping a wary eye on my server storage for some time and it’s got to the stage where I need to do something about it.

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Hands-On: Chenbro ES34069 Home Server Chassis

Saturday, March 29, 2008

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 Model: Chenbro ES34069   Manufacturer: Chenbro  Price: £175 (inc VAT) More Info: www.mini-itx.com With only a few OEMs releasing dedicated Windows Home Server systems to the market, many enthusiasts have taken it upon themselves to build their own home servers, either through recycling old systems and components lying around the house (Windows Home Server’s hardware requirements a far more [...]

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Tranquil PC T7-HSA 1TB to Ship With WD GreenPower Drives

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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A few weeks ago, we covered Western Digital’s forthcoming release of new energy-efficient hard drives, launched under the GreenPower brand. Today, Tranquil PC have announced that their top-spec T7-HSA Harmony Home Server will be shipping with the 1Tb Green Power drive. The 500Gb system will ship with WD’s AV hard drive. David at Tranquil writes [...]

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Western Digital Launch New Range of Energy Efficient GreenPower Hard Drives

Thursday, August 2, 2007

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One of the considerations when building a Windows Home Server is its energy-efficiency. The box will be switched on 24/7, and so silent running, low heat output and low power consumption lead to cheaper running costs as well as lower environmental impact. Over the coming year, expect to see many OEMs communicating low power consumption [...]

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How To… Add A USB Hard Drive to Windows Home Server

Saturday, June 16, 2007

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One of the coolest features of Windows Home Server is the ease with which you can add additional hard drives to the pool of storage you have available on your server. Windows Home Server makes no reference to traditional hard drive letters - you simply have a poll of storage available to store data on, spread [...]

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