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A look at the future of STH in 2014 as well as a look back on accomplishments and things that went less well in 2013
WD My Net Switch Front LED
A low power, simple, unmanaged 8-port Gigabit Ethernet network switch with basic QoS features
STH Colo 10U Rear Picture
We are taking advantage of the slower time of year to upgrade our Proxmox cluster and a few other key components of the STH architecture
Patrick Main Workstation December 2013 FLIR
A quick introduction to a dual socket Intel Xeon E5-2600 workstation build, with FLIR thermal images.
Android running on Hyper-V
A quick guide to installing Android into a Hyper-V virtual machine. We used Android-x86 and Windows 8.1 to make a development instance in under 5 minutes
Backblaze 6 year drive life projection
Backblaze looks at storage reliability across its population of over 25,000 consumer grade hard drives.
Zalman ZM-VE300 Front
This Zalman ZM-VE300 USB 3.0 external 2.5" drive chassis works as a hard drive but can also mount selected ISOs to boot into installation media. It is a must-have lab item
Install CentOS 6.3 on Windows 8 Hyper-V – Boot to ISO
CentOS 6.5 has been officially released following on the heels of RHEL 6.5. Major news is that this version supports the Avoton/ Rangeley i354 quad NIC
WD Black2 Exterior
The WD Black2 combines both a 128GB SSD and a 1TB HD into a 2.5" form factor, all for about $300. Unlike competition the 120GB SSD partition is separate
Intel Xeon Logo
Intel Xeon L5630 prices have fallen sharply in recent months. You can now have a sub 40w quad core (eight thread) server processor for for under $60