Dojo North Software released Beta version 1.6.10.28 of Home Server SMART which now provides continuous, automatic disk monitoring and also supports USB disks! Yes, you can now see SMART data from your USB drives. Sweet! Read on to find out more about this updated Add-in.
More and more advanced formed drives are on the market, and if you want to use them with your Windows Home Server V1 Microsoft advise you against it. Here we will show you what you can do it safely use them.
Sean Daniels has posted an article on his own personal blog showing how you can enable TimeMachine backups for you MAC on either SBS 2011 Essentials or WHS 2011. But shouldn’t this be out of the box functionality?
Mirror, mirror on the drive. I need my data to stay alive. Windows Home Server 2011 has a built in Drive Mirror feature that will allow you to create a synchronized copy of the drive. While this feature is not new to Microsoft products, the ease of setup from within the Server Manager makes it easy for the WHS 2011 user to create Mirrors. Check out the video!
AWIECO is the first company to release an Add-In for Windows Home Server 2011. I had a chance to install it over the weekend and it works great. This useful Add-In allows you to manage your WHS 2011 or SBS remotely by enabling more administrative functionality. Check out the short video and article to find out more!
A valuable feature of Windows Home Server 2011 is the support of 3TB hard drives. If you have one of these large format drives you can add it internally to your WHS 2011 and easily add it through the Dashboard. There are a couple of tricks, and a few changes to the drive, so read on to find out more.
If you are concerned about your Windows Home Server 2011 backup strategy and how it will affect your server performance then you are not alone. We decided to make a video of the scheduled backup in progess and show the CPU and network loads during the backups. Check out the video and see how you can monitor the same stats on your Windows Home Server 2011.
I have completed a fresh installation of Windows 7 to try another process of enabling Internet TV. This week I will walk through the process of enabling Internet TV from within Windows Media Center WITHOUT using a TV Tuner.
There seems to be a lot of people who are still a little unsure about adding or removing drives on their Windows Home Servers, so I figured some simple walk-throughs would help here. In this first walk-through, I will discuss removing a hard drive from the storage pool.
SATA III drives are close to the same price as SATA II drives so if you have a motherboard that supports SATA III now might be the time to upgrade hard drives! Check out this short article on upgrading to the next SATA spec!
