Intel's 3400 chipset for its socket 1156 platform accepts CPU's from the cheap Intel Pentium G6950 and Core i3-530 to the higher end Xeon X3430...
Newegg 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2TB Hard Drive Ratings – What is the best drive manufacturer
Patrick Kennedy - 9
This weekend I woke up one morning and decided that I wanted to know if retail packaged drives had a lower DOA rate than...
My main server, the Big WHS now houses over 60TB of storage, runs multiple VM's, and has over 10 Gigabit NICs. At the heart...
The Patriot PS-100 32GB continues to be a very low cost SSD after rebates. I purchased two of the drives early on and did...
As a follow-on to the Supermicro X8SIL-F review, I had some interest in seeing power consumption figures for the CPU's involved. I have already...
As a quick update to the previous AdminiMe 2010 review, ASoft released an update to its popular AdminiMe 2010 Add-in.
It appears as though ASoft...
SAS Expanders, Build Your Own JBOD DAS Enclosure and Save – Iteration 2 – A Better Solution
Patrick Kennedy - 18
After completing the first DAS/ SAS Expander JBOD enclosure project I realized that there was a major area of improvement. Using less than 30%...
The Big WHS was originally supposed to house approximately 30TB of storage when the plans were first detailed on an Excel spreadsheet BOM in...
To update to my review of the Supermicro X8SIL-F, I took some Kill-A-Watt power consumption numbers with the Supermicro X8SIL-F to answer a few...
The Supermicro X8SIL-F motherboard is an excellent board for home and small business servers. When building a file server built upon Windows Home Server...