In 2012 ServeTheHome grew by 8.5% month-over-month over the entire year. In fact, it just about doubled between July 2012 and December 2012 and is looking strong in 2013 already setting two new all-time daily visitor records. That has made the site a very busy place. Likewise, the STH Fourms have doubled in visitors as well as seeing about...
This article is the first in a multi- part series featuring napp-it. For those that do not know what napp-it is, it is a free NAS / SAN web interface for Solaris derivatives. That is a big deal because it takes one of the most robust file systems in ZFS and makes it easy to use. Solaris and OpenSolaris...
The ASUS P8C WS combines Intel's 216 chipset with Xeon E3 V1 and V2 support, ECC memory support, dual Intel 82574L LAN controllers several PCIe x16 physical slots and many other features to form a foundation for a stable workstation platform.
After posting the initial memory bandwidth figures in our Supermicro Hyper-Speed tests we decided to take a deeper look. This time we did a few optimizations, including turning off all unnecessary hardware devices on the Hyper-Speed platform. We also changed from our own compiled version where we saved results, to the Phoronix Test Suite pts/stream benchmark. One optimization we...
At the International Consumer Electronics Show 2013 (CES13) I stopped by the Other World Computing (OWC) booth. OWC is best known for its lines of Mac upgrades and accessories. Founded in 1988 OWC is a well known brand in the Apple ecosystem. Lately, it has expanded into areas such as selling solid state drive upgrades for Apple MacBooks, even...
After yesterday's coverage of the International CES13, I had an abbreviated day due to flights. In the late morning I passed the torch off to Jeff as we toured the Venetian. He may or may not attest to the fact that we walked into a huge brightly lit hall and I got dizzy at the sight of more rows...
ServeTheHome finally started the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year. For those who have not been, the show is huge with an estimated 155,000 people from what I heard. CES is an opportunity for vendors to show off their newest products to potential buyers and the press. Probably half of the booths I attended had either...
I wanted to take a few minutes to share my thoughts about using a Microsoft Surface using Windows RT as a PC over a two month period. This is an update to my previous piece around my initial impressions, now with significant experience behind me. Overall, the experience was mixed. Other reviewers seem to be highly in one camp...
Recently we discussed how one can create a virtual machine for server admin with a Windows RT device. Sometimes though, you just need putty. Putty is perhaps one of the most used server admin tools by any Windows administrator. In this guide we are going to show how one can also enable using Putty using RemoteApp. The benefits in...
The Supermicro Hyper-Speed server sent to STH for review has been featured several times recently, mostly focusing on features. For those not familiar with the Supermicro Hyper-Speed server line it allows for selected pre-configured components to run faster than their native specifications. For example, the Intel Xeon E5-2687W is currently the fastest CPU at the time of this testing....