System and infrastructure components
So I picked up a few 256GB solid state drives on a whim. Its time to upgrade some of the older drives around the house in the PC’s which need the capacity. This time, I decided to just buy msata drives, and use more mSATA to 2.5″ adapters to fit them into desktops and laptops. …
Ok, I posted a review the other day of a Vantec EZ Swap F4 (model MRK-425ST-BK) in which I noted that the thing screams like a banshee. Well ok, so maybe that’s a bit overly dramatic, but I don’t like noise, and prefer my technology to be unobtrusive, and the fan in the EZ swap…
I specifically chose the case for my new home server for its internal bays (7x 3.5″) and its external dimensions, as it has to fit on the same closet shelf as my old Microserver N36L. I ended up choosing the Lian-Li PC-V354b Case which is working out great for me. More on that in another…
This post is short and to the point – annoyingly, the LSI drivers for FreeBSD seem to have issues using MSIX interrupts, which causes the adapter to either not work at all, or to stop working. The fix is simple, once you know how to do it 🙂 Lets start by assuming you’ve got your…
So I’ve just grabbed a Dell H310 off of fleabay as part of my new server build. First challenge is to figure out how to flash it with an IT firmware, so that I can use it as a controller card for a virtualised file server. The Perc H310 is a sas2008 based card, and…
So after catching some hints here and there, I started to wonder whether the i5-650 might make a really good cpu for a home server. Coupled with the oddly ambiguous Intel Ark i5-650 entry which notably doesn’t say “No” to ECC support when other CPU’s have an entry for “ECC Memory Supported” that usually states…
Sept. 30th 2011 was the day the microserver went live. So for the last 2 years, our home network has been centered around this little HP Microserver N36L. These are great little machines I must say – its been rock solid, no hardware issues, and has just sat in the closet chugging away with barely…
So we’ve got two young children aged 5 and 7. They have no concept of “scheduled programming” for television – to them, TV has always been an on-demand thing. Why? We’ve been running MythTV since before they were born, so they’ve grown up with it. It works like Tivo – you tell it which programs…