I was checking Amazon the other day and saw both the 100GB and 200GB versions of the OCZ Vertex LE are available for pre-order....
Intel's Clarkdale and H55/ H57 platforms are quite intriguing for several reasons. First, the performance is fairly good starting at 2.93ghz, and with hyperthreading,...
Things have been progressing on the Big WHS front. First off, my main PC is now is using the WHS Connector software and has...
This week the Big WHS underwent a major change and dropped the Asus motherboard in favor of a Supermicro one. Apparently the Asus P6T7...
As I posted previously, the new Clarkdale based chips (or Intel's 2010 Core line-up) are quite nice chips. Speed wise, they are similar in...
When Intel announced the i3-530 and i5-6xx family, I was full bore on building the Big WHS which included an LGA-1366 i7-920 CPU. The...
Just as a quick update to those who are following this build. Some adjustments have been made ove the past week.
First, I finally decided...
Most people who build custom home servers will be able to articulate the cost per GB (cost/GB) of their drives. Yet this is a...
Since there are some requests here are the servers side by-side. The New WHS is on burn-in duty while the old WHS has had...
Just as an update. I installed the second Adaptec 31605 today, filling all 16 ports with 8x WD Greens, 6x Hitachi 2TB, and 2x...