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...
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...