Yearly Archives: 2013

STH looking forward to 2014 and a look back at 2013

A look at the future of STH in 2014 as well as a look back on accomplishments and things that went less well in 2013

WD My Net Switch – 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Network Switch Review

A low power, simple, unmanaged 8-port Gigabit Ethernet network switch with basic QoS features

Pardon Our Dust – Upgrades in Progress

We are taking advantage of the slower time of year to upgrade our Proxmox cluster and a few other key components of the STH architecture

The December 2013 Workstation Build Documented in the Forums

A quick introduction to a dual socket Intel Xeon E5-2600 workstation build, with FLIR thermal images.

Installing Android-x86 on Hyper-V with Windows 8.1 in under 5 minutes

A quick guide to installing Android into a Hyper-V virtual machine. We used Android-x86 and Windows 8.1 to make a development instance in under 5 minutes

Storage Reliability Figures from Backblaze

Backblaze looks at storage reliability across its population of over 25,000 consumer grade hard drives.

Zalman ZM-VE300 USB 3.0 External Drive Chassis Review – Unique ISO Loader

This Zalman ZM-VE300 USB 3.0 external 2.5" drive chassis works as a hard drive but can also mount selected ISOs to boot into installation media. It is a must-have lab item

CentOS 6.5 Released

CentOS 6.5 has been officially released following on the heels of RHEL 6.5. Major news is that this version supports the Avoton/ Rangeley i354 quad NIC

Western Digital WD Black2 Laptop 1TB HD 128GB SSD Combo Drive

The WD Black2 combines both a 128GB SSD and a 1TB HD into a 2.5" form factor, all for about $300. Unlike competition the 120GB SSD partition is separate

Forum deal: Intel Xeon L5630 for under $60 each

Intel Xeon L5630 prices have fallen sharply in recent months. You can now have a sub 40w quad core (eight thread) server processor for for under $60
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