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...
Continuing to test the new WHS box, I was treated to yet another new Western Digital Green failure this week. Ridiculous!
Of the 15 Seagate...
At around 1:30AM I woke up to what I believed was the fire alarm. After about 30 seconds outside in the cold, I realized that...
After work today I got the server up and running doing a build/ verify Raid 6 array on the 8x new Western Digital Green...
First off, this is not a typical WHS build, and it was not meant to be. For the majority of users, a HP MediaSmart...
About 10 months ago I decided to enter the world of the Windows Home Server. My storage arrays had outstripped my Cosmos S's capacity, and...