Category: Windows Home Server

In Part 1, we covered the unboxing, installation and setup of the new ioSafe 1 TB external hard drive that is both fire and water proof.  You can find the entire post here. By now, I have the ioSafe running and the contents of my Home Server folders backed up and protected.  There is one thing left to do. In Part 2, we are going to look at the steps necessary to set up my WHS so that I can use it to backup my PC backups.  We will install the BDBB add-in as well as run it.   Here we

Friday, July 3rd  [spp-timestamp time="2:45"] PM.  I have been having some difficulty with my Windows Home Server over the last several months and it’s time to rebuild it from scratch.  It not has hard as you think, so I thought I’d bring you along on the process.  I’ll try to post some screen shots and pictures to give you a good idea of how you do it and what the home server can do.  So over the weekend, I’ll just keep adding to this post.  It will be fun.  Join me. Remember, I search (and rebuild servers) so you don’t have

  One of the things that has bothered me the most about my WHS (Windows Home Server) experience that been the incredibly slow file transfer speeds that I get from my client boxes to the server and back.  Granted, I am using older equipment with slow processors, IDE drives and 10/100 network devices, but the fact still remains, I want more speed! Joe DiFiglia over at Computing on Demand posted some good info back in early June on a tweek that will get you some serious speed from the new gigabit switches and network cards.  It would be a couple