Hitachi has released specs of its new 7,200rpm Deskstar 7K3000 series as well as a new 5,200rpm Deskstar 5K3000 series of hard drives with...
Although Intel will be releasing the X25-M G3 SSDs in the next few months, I get asked frequently to provide some X25-M G2 numbers...
Supermicro X8SI6-F Motherboard Review Including Onboard LSI SAS 2008 Controller
Patrick Kennedy - 19
Oftentimes those building their own small business and home storage servers are looking to save considerable amounts of money. In the process, users oftentimes...
Over the weekend I experienced an oddly inaccessible network share on a Windows Home Server instance running in Hyper-V using Windows Server 2008 R2....
One of the most annoying things in SSDs these days is the fact that virtually every manufacturer uses mail-in rebates to make their SSDs...
This preview release has all the functionality of the first preview (0.1.7-preview), but in addition has the following changes:
The Mesa ZFS Web Interface/ ZFSguru...
The question of whether or not one can mix 7,200rpm hard drives with 5,400rpm (5,900rpm or other speed) "green" drives in RAID is one...
How-to Flash Supermicro X8SI6-F LSI SAS 2008 Controller with LSI IT Firmware Guide
Patrick Kennedy - 28
Following theIntel SASUC8I and LSI SAS3081E-R 1068e Based RAID Controller Review which featured a LSI 1068e based Intel SASUC8I I have started to take a...
Supermicro IPMIview Review – Remote Server Monitoring and Management and KVM-over-IP
Patrick Kennedy - 19
The ability to remotely monitor servers utilizing IPMI 2.0 is a key differentiator between server grade hardware and consumer hardware. Supermicro's IPMIview software is...
I often get questions regarding good ways to stress test home servers, especially new drives. As part of the in-development FreeBSD 8.x based Mesa...