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Why Excess Capacity for WHS/ Vail/ Aurora and Hot Spares for RAID are Necessary – Mean Time to Recover (MTTR) Guide The RAID Reliability Anthology – Part 1 – The Primer Tech Spending Weakness in Q3 2010 ASoft WHS DevKit 2 Version 1.1 Released
 
Why Excess Capacity for WHS/ Vail/ Aurora and Hot Spares for RAID are Necessary – Mean Time to Recover (MTTR) Guide

Why Excess Capacity for WHS/ Vail/ Aurora and Hot Spares for RAID are Necessary – Mean Time to Recover (MTTR) Guide

A guide as to why excess capacity for WHS/ Vail/ Aurora and hot spares for RAID arrays are necessary from a Mean Time to Recover (MTTR) perspective.

The RAID Reliability Anthology – Part 1 – The Primer

The RAID Reliability Anthology – Part 1 – The Primer

Explaining the reliability of RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 6, 50, 60, and RAID-Z3 in terms of MTTDL and gives a primer on advantages and disadvantages.

Tech Spending Weakness in Q3 2010

Tech Spending Weakness in Q3 2010

Continued guidance in Q3 2010 by tech giants such as Intel, HP, Cisco and Dell are a symptom of "double ordering" and lean inventories not a general slowdown.

ASoft WHS DevKit 2 Version 1.1 Released

ASoft WHS DevKit 2 Version 1.1 Released

To aspiring Windows Home Server (WHS) developers out there, ASoft (makers of AdminiMe and AutoExit) has released their WHS DevKit 2 Version 1.1. This version has more complete documentation including how to create an installer and support for Windows Home Server build 7659.

Why Excess Capacity for WHS/ Vail/ Aurora and Hot Spares for RAID are Necessary – Mean Time to Recover (MTTR) Guide

Why Excess Capacity for WHS/ Vail/ Aurora and Hot Spares for RAID are Necessary – Mean Time to Recover (MTTR) Guide

01 September 2010

A guide as to why excess capacity for WHS/ Vail/ Aurora and hot spares for RAID arrays are necessary from a Mean Time to Recover (MTTR) perspective.

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The RAID Reliability Anthology – Part 1 – The Primer

The RAID Reliability Anthology – Part 1 – The Primer

30 August 2010

Explaining the reliability of RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 6, 50, 60, and RAID-Z3 in terms of MTTDL and gives a primer on advantages and disadvantages.

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Posted in Storage Reliability7 Comments

Tech Spending Weakness in Q3 2010

Tech Spending Weakness in Q3 2010

27 August 2010

Continued guidance in Q3 2010 by tech giants such as Intel, HP, Cisco and Dell are a symptom of "double ordering" and lean inventories not a general slowdown.

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Posted in Storage News0 Comments

ASoft WHS DevKit 2 Version 1.1 Released

ASoft WHS DevKit 2 Version 1.1 Released

26 August 2010

To aspiring Windows Home Server (WHS) developers out there, ASoft (makers of AdminiMe and AutoExit) has released their WHS DevKit 2 Version 1.1. This version has more complete documentation including how to create an installer and support for Windows Home Server build 7659.

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Posted in Windows Home Server0 Comments

Secure Windows 7 VM on a WHS Server in Hyper-V

Secure Windows 7 VM on a WHS Server in Hyper-V

23 August 2010

A simple guide to installing a Secure Windows 7 installation on a Windows Home Server running Hyper-V. This allows a secure Win 7 VM to be hosted on the server.

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Posted in Hyper-V Virtualization6 Comments

Intel’s Atom D425 and D525 Announcement – STH’s View

Intel’s Atom D425 and D525 Announcement – STH’s View

18 August 2010

Yesterday Intel announced the Atom D425 and D525 platforms targeted for small storage servers. Both chips are 1.8GHz parts with Hyper-Threading. The Atom D425 is a single core with 512KB of cache (10w TDP) and the Atom D525 (13w TDP) being the dual core chip with 1MB of L2 cache. The chips support both the [...]

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Posted in Low Power Servers5 Comments

Apex MI-100 Side Vents for cooling

Apex MI-100 mITX HTPC Case Review

12 August 2010

Many of this site’s readers have large storage requirements due to a focus on centralizing redundant storage for multiple client PCs. One common scenario is streaming video to client PCs. Personally, I use a mix of mainly micro ITX (mITX) platforms as HTPC streaming PCs. My typical configuration involves a mITX motherboard with a low [...]

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Posted in Low Power Servers5 Comments

Save Tax information off of failed WHS Disk

Recover Data off of a Windows Home Server Failing Drive

04 August 2010

All hard  drives will eventually fail. Some earlier than others. As some readers may remember, The Big WHS lost three of eight new Western Digital Green 1.5TB drives earlier this year within a three month span, leading me to procure more and more Hitachi 2TB 7200rpm drives. Recently, I experienced my first Hitachi drive failure [...]

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Posted in Client Tips9 Comments

WinSAT CPU sub score detail in an XML file

Determine WinSAT CPU Sub Score from the Command Line

27 July 2010

Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 contain a benchmark utility called the Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT). The Windows Experience Index is more or less a GUI version of the WinSAT scores that provides the user with a simple way to run the test, and see a summary of the results. With Windows Home Server [...]

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Intel BOXDH57JG with 4GB of G.Skill DDR3, Intel Core i3-530 in an Apex enclosure

Intel BOXDH57JG H57 mini ITX Motherboard Review

22 July 2010

Although Intel’s Atom CPUs have made a splash in the mini ITX space, many users prefer the small form factor yet want more computing power than the Atom can muster. In response to this need, motherboard manufacturers have started to build standard socket motherboards in small form factors such as mITX. Over the past decade, [...]

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