In the next installment of the CPU cooler roundup, we are taking a look at the Corsair Air Series A70 which is an interesting offering that Corsair does not officially list as a compatible LGA2011 cooler, but it does work. The big question is whether or not a big tower cooler, like the Corsair A70 is a worthwhile investment...
Last week we reviewed the Thermaltake MAX-1542 hotswap enclosure that puts four 2.5" hot swap drive bays into a single 5.25" drive slot. This week, we are looking at Thermaltake's higher-density product, the Thermaltake MAX-1562 6x 2.5" in 1x 5.25" bay hot swap RAID enclosure for SSDs. This is clearly not a product we would have seen in the 15K rpm...
After the initial review of the Dell/ Silicom PEG6I six port Gigabit Ethernet adapter came up, where I showed that a simple search could yield six Intel Gigabit Ethernet ports on one card for under $125 (see here for the PEG6I eBay search), I turned to look at the PEG6I's VMware ESXi 5.0 compatibility which was good. I did want to take the...
ASRock has announced a monster board the ASRock X79 Extreme11 and are really pulling out all stops with this motherboard. This could be of interest to those requiring a workstation board that is a crossover with server board features. The main feature that caught my eye is the onboard dual core LSI SAS 2308 SAS 2 /SATA III controller...
Last week we launched the ServeTheHome RAID Calculator and it has been quite a success and we received a bunch of feedback on it. This week we have incorporated much of that feedback and turned the RAID Calculator into a much more flexible tool. There is still much work to be done, but this version incorporates much of the...
Today we are taking a look at the Corsair Hydro Series H100 liquid cooling solutions specifically in the context of servers and workstations. I opined in the earlier Corsair Hydro Series H80 review about my thoughts on why the LGA 2011 platform is ideal for testing higher-end coolers so I will defer to that piece for the explanation. Let's...
Solid-state storage is getting cheaper almost by the day, so it is no surprise that users are starting to put more than one SSD in their workstations and desktops. Personally I have had at least three SSDs in my main workstation for two years now. Thermaltake sent its solution, the Thermaltake MAX-1542 hotswap enclosure that puts four 2.5" hot...
Today I am taking a quick peek at the new range of Intel C600 chipset based server motherboards from Tyan for the new Intel Xeon E5-2600 series CPUs. Having been a fan of Tyan motherboards for some years except the last couple of years where Supermicro have come into their own in the server market. Did Tyan deliver a full range...
A few weeks ago I decided that I was going to put a renewed effort into building useful tools for ServeTheHome.com. The first tool is relatively simple, it's a RAID calculator that allows you to pick RAID levels then computes the resulting array capacity. Feel free to check out ServeTheHome's RAID Calculator and give some feedback on the future...
AMD is following Intel's Xeon E3 strategy for uniprocessor servers and is announcing the availability of the AMD Opteron 3200 series. The Opteron 3200 is a Bulldozer-based server CPU that utilizes one of AMD's mainstream CPU sockets, socket AM3+. This is very much like what Intel does with its current Xeon E3-1200 line and is something I have been eagerly awaiting...