New lower pricing on the SGI Rackable SE3016 3U 16 bay SAS Expander chassis discovered by nitrobass24 on the STH forums.
Benchmarking Amazon AWS EC2 instances and Rackspace cloud servers that cost under a quarter per hour to operate.
An update on Team ServeTheHome on VMware's Cloud Credibility (CloudCred) site. We are already a top 10 team and climbing!
For those users looking for a solid dual AMD Opteron 4300 series motherboard, with a built-in LSI SAS2008 controller this is a strong choice.
Amazon EC2 instance benchmark results with the new Linux CPU Benchmark Suite. Specifically with first generation t1.micro, m1.small, m1.medium and m1.large
Building a Cheap Data Warehouse with really high performance. This includes low cost database & storage servers and is a great example of cheap performance
The AMD Opteron 4376 HE is AMD's fastest Opteron 4300 series "high efficiency part. Built on AMD's Piledriver architecture. Today we are looking at a dual-CPU configuration.
The Icy Dock MB973SP-2B combines tray-less hot swap features and front panel USB 3.0 ports to make a compelling product for servers and workstations, especially those where 3.5" drive imaging will take place or there is a need to quickly turn off or remove backup drives
A quick summary of the 50TB+ VMware vSphere cluster storage server write-up in the forums. The build log by nry is very comprehensive and worth a look.
Building the STH 2013 Linux CPU Benchmarking Test Suite for ServeTheHome benchmark and reviews in 2013.