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HABEY Announce MITX-6852 Mini-ITX Motherboard for Home Server Market

Over in the USA, HABEY (which is part of Norco, manufacturers of the DS-520 Windows Home Server system we reviewed a while back) have announced a new Mini-ITX board which is suitable for self-build home servers. Here’s the release: HABEY USA, leading manufacturer of embedded and server storage products, today announces MITX-6852, a special designed mini-ITX form factor [...]

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Systemax EV745 Media Server Now Available in the USA

Systemax release a new Windows Home Server system to the US market.

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Hands-On: Sans Digital TR4M-B 4-Bay SATA DAS Enclosure

If you're running out of space on your home server and want to take the next step in storage, you'll be looking for a Direct Attached Storage solution - often called a hard disk enclosure, which allow you to connect 4 or more drives to a single eSATA port on your home server.  Jim Clark takes a look at one option, the Sans Digital TR4M 4 Bay Enclosure, in a detailed hands-on review. 

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Integrating Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server Part 3

This is the third in a series of articles detailing how one network went from dilapidated junker to media hero with the help of WMC and WHS. 

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Add-in: Windows Home Server Disk Management v1.0.8.6 Released

Sam Wood of Tentacle Software has released an update to the very popular and highly rated add-in Windows Home Server Disk Management for Microsoft Windows Home Server. This update includes a major update to the wireframe which can be configured to show the physical layout of disks in your WHS system case.

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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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Add-In: Drive Labeler 1.0.0.5

Jerry McCollom has developed a new add-in called Drive Labeler, which improves the ease of using two or more identical hard drives with Windows Home Server. Find out more...

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Add-In Update: WHS Disk Management 1.0.7.2

Sam Wood’s back with another update for WHS Disk Management, a cracking add-in which helps you visualise which hard drive in your system you’re working with at any given time. WHS Disk Management is an extension of the standard WHS Server Storage interface. People who buy nice OEM WHS solutions get fancy LEDs that light up [...]

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Add-in Update: WHS Disk Management 1.0.6.0

Today brings another update to Sam Wood’s WHS Disk Management add-in, which brings the following new features a nd fixes: 1.0.6.0 - Update Added: Each drive bay now has a user-editable comment field (currently only displayed in the Settings dialog) Changed: Drive bay settings dialog now has Update/Replace functionality (previously you had to delete the old drive bay [...]

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Add-In Update: WHS Disk Management v1.0.5.0

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 [...]

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