Wegotserved's series on building a Windows 8 Home Server has been completed through part 6, "Installing Windows 8". Other parts have included a long multi-page post with many screen shots showing how to physically build … [Read more...]
Backup Gets Personal in Windows 8 With ‘File History’
Speaking about Windows 8 and its possibilities as a file server, especially to replace the lamented soon to be departed Windows Home Server (WHS) products, Redmondmag.com has an article about the "file history" feature … [Read more...]
Building a Windows 8 Home Server: Home Server Hardware
As promised, I am updating the status of the Wegotserved series on building a Windows 8 Home Server. Part one of my post is here. Wegotserved is providing a series of articles about using Windows 8 as a replacement for … [Read more...]
Windows Home Server is Dead
Another article about the demise of Windows Home Server is found at Arstechnica.com. As the article points out, it will be a while before WHS is gone for good: The current version, Windows Home Server 2011, is the last … [Read more...]
Building a Windows 8 Home Server: Introduction
Now that Microsoft has announced that Windows Home Server 2011 will not be followed up by a new home server version of Windows and that both versions of Windows Home Server will have an end of support life, the question … [Read more...]
Windows 8 Storage Spaces Speed Performance
There is a post over at the Homeservershow site testing the new storage spaces feature on the beta of Windows 8. Storage spaces is a feature that allows for pooled drives and parity protection of data. Essentially, this … [Read more...]