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Testing Update – Timeline, New SSDs, AMD Socket AM3 with USB 3.0 and SATA 3

Posted on 21 April 2010. Tags: 8u, amd phenom, asoft, benchmarks, Dell PowerConnect, direct attached storage, freebsd, hardware reviews, home server, intel pro, network performance, Norco, raid 0, sata, socket am3, virtualization, x25, x4

I have decided to post a little roadmap of what’s next on the site. I am a list making person, so this will hopefully keep me goal oriented. The next few weeks I will be focusing on some Windows Home Server add-in reviews and guides, some Linux/ OpenSolaris on Hyper-V guides, and some hardware testing. Other potential thoughts I have are to write up how to get decent network performance from a WHS (i.e. over 90MB/s which it seems like there are people who can’t figure this out). I may also move into trying some ESXi virtualization guides, some FreeBSD/ OpenSolaris ZFS guides, and some hardware reviews and benchmarks.

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AMD Sempron 140 Sargas 2.7GHz – Low Power WHS Review (In a BOX)

Posted on 19 April 2010. Tags: amd phenom, amd sempron, amd systems, benchmarks, cardboard box, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, corsair dominator, home server, micro atx, motherboard, nvidia geforce, q6600, Review, seagate momentus, socket am3, WHS, Windows Home Server

Although I am a big Intel CPU fan right now, I do run AMD systems also. Case and point, this weekend I bought an AMD Phenom II x4 955 + USB 3.0 and SATA 3 motherboard, and I built an AMD Sempron 140 based Windows Home Server (WHS). I decided to do a few benchmarks so that I could compare the Sempron 140 Sargas against the Intel i3-530 and i5-650. I did run into one problem, I didn’t have a spare case lying around, so I made one out of a Corsair Dominator GT (DDR3 1600 C7) box. Yes, this is a WHS in a cardboard box.