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Home Server SMART 2012

Home Server Smart 2012 is a disk health reporting add-in for Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. The add-in monitors your server’s hard disks at user-defined intervals for errors and issues, raising alerts and issuing email notifications when problems are detected.

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Tranquil PC Launches Diskless “Special Edition” Leo HS4 Home Server

Manchester’s Tranquil PC this week announced the release of a new diskless edition of their Leo HS4 Home Server. According to the company, the move is a response to the dramatic rise in hard drive pricing seen as a result of this year’s flooding in Thailand.

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PerfectDisk 12 Home Server Ready for Action

Raxco Software today announced the immediate availability of the latest release of their Disk Defragmentation software, PerfectDisk 12. As previously revealed here at WGS, the company have extended their support for Windows Home Server with separate releases for both WHS v1 and a 64-bit edition for Windows Home Server 2011. Check out what’s new.

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Add-in Update: Diskeeper 2011 Home Server Build 956

Minor update release issued for Diskeeper’s WHS v1 disk defragger.

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Diskeeper 2011 Home Server Now Available

Diskeeper Corporation have announced the availability of their all-new disk defragmentation software, Diskeeper 2011 Home Server. According to the company, the software optimizes performance from streaming media and provides faster access to shared files and folders once drives have been defragmented. Diskeeper claim the product can extend the life of a home server by up to 3 years.

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Diskeeper 2011 HomeServer Waiting in the Wings

Diskeeper Corporation have a new version of their disk defragmentation application for Windows Home Server ready to ship.

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StableBit Scanner

StableBit Scanner is an advanced hard drive scanning and monitoring tool for Windows Home Server v1. It monitors all hard drives in your home server looking for damage then analyses and retrieves files from the damaged sectors of the disk.

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Diskeeper 2011 to Introduce “Instant Defragmentation of Hard Drives”

Diskeeper Corporation are at CES this week talking about their plans for the forthcoming Diskeeeper 2011, which is due in the first quarter of this year.

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Add-in Update: Home Server SMART v1.1.36.6

Home Server SMART enables you to monitor the health of most of your hard disks attached to WHS. It examines the S.M.A.R.T. data exposed by your disks and determines the health of the disk. A new update for the add-in released this week provides bug fixes for Windows Home Server owners.

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Microsoft Advise Against Use of Advanced Format Drives With Windows Home Server

Back in January, we discussed Western Digital’s new Advanced Format Drives, which WGS readers were finding caused performance and incompatibility issues on Windows Home Server v1. At the time we advised against using these drives and selecting a standard drive instead.This week, Microsoft issued an advisory note which backed that advice.

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