Philip Churchill, on his MS Windows Home Server Site, is reporting that the Windows Home Server Disk Management Add-In may have compatibility issues with the upcoming WHS Power Pack 1 update and shouldn’t be used with it.
I’ve mentioned before that I use the disk management add-in so wanted to pass this along. Although I’ve yet [...]
Since I decided to start ripping my video library to disk I quickly realized my Windows Home Server would run out of space in fairly short order. I had four 500GB drives in it already so there weren’t any bays free, I’d have to replace one or more drives. The sweet spot for hard [...]
Microsoft has released an update to Windows Home Server that addresses the following problem:
• You have a computer that is running Windows Home Server.
• Windows Home Server is distributed through System Locked Preinstall (SLP). For example, you purchase a Hewlett-Packard (HP) MediaSmart Server.
In this scenario, you may randomly receive an expiration notice that prompts you [...]
My iTunes library is located on the Windows Home Server music share so that it can be managed from any of my Macs. I knew this was potential problem with the data corruption issue. Still, I continued to run the library from the WHS share since I suffer from "can’t happen to me" syndrome. [...]
By ray | February 29, 2008
One of the benefits of Windows Home Server is the ease at which disk space can be expanded. There’s no need to set up partitions, just pop the drives in and add them to the storage pool. The HP EX475 makes it easy to add disk on the hardware side of things by using [...]
By ray | February 23, 2008
HP & Microsoft say that the 512MB of RAM delivered with HP server is enough to deliver 5 media streams at one time. It’s been streaming and copying files fine for me, although there’s rarely even 2 active connections and never more so I can’t say if the 5 streams is reasonable. But when [...]
