Sam Wood of Tentacle Software, curator of one of the most popular Windows Home Server add-ins announces a feature-loaded updated version of his Disk Management add-in.Users can use the shiny new "Disk Management for Windows Home Server" add-in; formerly known as "WHS Disk Management" is used to conceptualize storage arrangements, identify, monitor and administrate the disks inside of your server with relative ease.
Sam Wood:
Tentacle Software is proud to announce the release of Disk Management 1.1, the next version of our very popular Windows Home Server Add-In. It has, as they say, been a long time coming. We’ve kept this release under the radar, for the most part. We’ve talked about it in hushed whispers for at least a year and a half. Why did it take so long? We really, really wanted to get it right. New Features We re-architected the entire Add-In to use a Windows Service to do all the back-end heavy lifting. That’s given us the flexibility to add a bunch of functionality that you’ve all been asking for. Everyone loves bullet points, so here are our new shinies in no particular order: Significantly improved user interface (including a collapsible pane for the wireframe if you don’t use it) Significantly improved performance, especially on multi-core CPUs Charts for disk space statistics Charts for disk space utilization over time Disk statistics logging to a file More disk details, including the NTFS mount point for each disk Real counting of the actual backup database size (for all you crazy kids with backup duplication enabled) A detailed help file The new UI is something we’re really proud of. No more pop-up windows to see detailed information about your disks, it’s all there in one display. New Price The other major change is that we’re going professional. Disk Management will no longer be free.There are a number of reasons for us to do this, but mostly we believe that Disk Management is worth paying for, and moving to a paid model will help ensure that Disk Management is supported and maintained in the future. Disk Management is available as a free 30-day trial, with no feature or functionality limitations. You can try it out with no risk and see how awesome the new version is. If you love it as much as we do, a license for v1.x will cost you US$10 per server. New Website The Tentacle Software website has had a major facelift. We’ve got a whole new style, and a new store. Have a look and tell us what you think; we would love to hear your feedback. The Future We’re very excited about this release, as I’m sure you can tell. We believe that Disk Management 1.1 is the start of something special for us, and we’ve got plans for all sorts of goodies for Windows Home Server that I’m sure you’ll love.We want to sincerely thank all our beta testers, and everyone who has given us feedback. Disk Management and Tentacle Software are two years old and we couldn’t have made it this far without you.
Tentacle Software is proud to announce the release of Disk Management 1.1, the next version of our very popular Windows Home Server Add-In. It has, as they say, been a long time coming.
We’ve kept this release under the radar, for the most part. We’ve talked about it in hushed whispers for at least a year and a half. Why did it take so long? We really, really wanted to get it right.
We re-architected the entire Add-In to use a Windows Service to do all the back-end heavy lifting. That’s given us the flexibility to add a bunch of functionality that you’ve all been asking for.
Everyone loves bullet points, so here are our new shinies in no particular order:
The other major change is that we’re going professional. Disk Management will no longer be free.There are a number of reasons for us to do this, but mostly we believe that Disk Management is worth paying for, and moving to a paid model will help ensure that Disk Management is supported and maintained in the future.
Disk Management is available as a free 30-day trial, with no feature or functionality limitations. You can try it out with no risk and see how awesome the new version is. If you love it as much as we do, a license for v1.x will cost you US$10 per server.
The Tentacle Software website has had a major facelift. We’ve got a whole new style, and a new store. Have a look and tell us what you think; we would love to hear your feedback.
We’re very excited about this release, as I’m sure you can tell. We believe that Disk Management 1.1 is the start of something special for us, and we’ve got plans for all sorts of goodies for Windows Home Server that I’m sure you’ll love.We want to sincerely thank all our beta testers, and everyone who has given us feedback. Disk Management and Tentacle Software are two years old and we couldn’t have made it this far without you.
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This looks very nice and for $10 it is a bargain. What is meant by the slogan The first one is always free on the tentacle website?
They already have my money! Need I say more?
This is one of the MUST have add-ins. I use this add-in from up the begin and i have uploaded some frame xml files, but i can't find back them. Strange... i hope we will have back these older files for the older versions. OK $10 is not much, but what is with us guys who has helped out with the server frames.
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