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Yeah, that's some pretty important information there. you would have gotten different responses that would make more sense if we had known that since the original OP is only 15. Next time don't thread jack. 1. It'll confuse the OP in the answers he sees (trying to filter what applies to...

that's what Michael Dell did...though he was more about putting them together. Anyways, yes. not a bad way to start and will teach you more about how to run a business. An internship is also not a bad way to approach it. Just be upfront about your goals to wherever you're trying to get a...

You don't want to end up being just a "network" admin as the field is so broad. I'd put it in terms as the difference between somebody who might just monitor traffic lights around a city to minimize traffic jams to the civil engineer who actually has to solve how to move things around a city...

set the specific connection between the .1.x network and the .2.x network to private. with it set as public, network discover and sharing are disabled by default.

then your cost/benefit would suggest to chunk it and spend $100-200 for a more technologically current system. :rolleyes:

Flexraid. It has storage pooling, parity protection, datarot detection, full recovery options. http://www.flexraid.com

1password (really highly rated on app store also but they do have standalone packages for desktop) is what i use. they have a lot of insightful blogs on their site that talk about how they implement and issues specifically related to maintaining passwords.

huh :confused: in a machine this old, what else could you possibly consider to put in the pci slot? And judging by your wording, there are several free PCI slots as it is. buy a SATA card. done. move on. unless you're trying to outfit some old school sparc server or something... spend the...

if you have a "student" account where you can get server 2012 essentials free, then I would recommend it. It's technical the successor to SBS but I tend to think of it as more the love child of whs2011 and sbs. it can be a pain to setup since it requires itself to be a AD domain controller but...

I'm confused. You're title talks about case recommendations yet all you write about are motherboard choices. The single thing you do mention even remotely related to storage is the "enclosure". so what is your question? 1. If it's a case for a home server. I recommend norco 4220 or 4224...

what are you using to connect to the internet? is your server also serving as the router (ala pfsense, untangle) or are you using a hardware router (netgear, linskys, etc)? according to what you've described...you don't have anything connected to the WAN side (public) 1 nic should be...

Flexraid is all you need.

I think only certain models in the AX line are Seasonic sourced. Easily verifiable reading through some of the hardocp reviews. and yeah, i'd second the corsair route if actual seasonic is not available to you.

this might seem strange for a home server but...any recommendations on keeping my norco 4220 dust free on the inside? i've though about buying some screen door mesh to make an adhoc dust filter to put on the front. Any other suggestions? (and keeping my house dust free...yes, but other than...

IF those are really the only options you have in your country. I'd go with Corsair. Never liked the intel 330s.

so to this. yes, just use SATA to Molex adapters (got mine of newegg) to make up what's lacking in molex. I'm using it for 2 rows. the redundancy, don't bother to connect if it's not from a different power supply. As far as your gaming rig. I'm using Seasonic 1000w Platinum since it's...

yeah, most people overestimate the needs especially for a server. imho. I'd go with a Seasonic gold. x750 or x850 is fine for the norco. I run a x750 in my 4220. I haven't cracked it open in a while but I believe the back plane uses molex to connect. 5 drives per molex). I'll double...

I prefer corsair. had that and a ocz agility 3. the ocz would make my system randomly freeze and reboot. ideally though, a samsung anything is probably better

if you have enough controllers, then just pass the whole controller through and the drive will then be "native" so to speak to your VM. Better than RDM

i've still read that tape + a safe is the fallback to use if you just need to preserve the data.

yep this. don't need all the "fancy" features with just 1 box.

Single ESXI 5.1.0a box Intel Xeon E5-2620 Supermicro X9SRI-3F 64GB (16x4) Kingston KVR13LR9D4/16HM 128 Samsung 830 (Server 2012's VMs) 256 Samsung 830 (everything else) 4GB USB (ESXI) 1TB Seagate (random testing VM store) 16TB of random sized disk file storage IBM M1015 (LSI 9211-8i) Chenbro...

Planned (after some stability testing of new box, home use): Hypervisor: ESXI 5.1.0b VM1: pfSense, Router/Firewall VM2: Server 2012 Datacenter, AD/DNS VM3: Server 2012 Standard, AD Backup VM4: Server 2012 Standard, vCenter Server VM5: Server 2012 Essentials, Fileserve/Backup/Flexraid VM6: MS...

I'm sure it's been mentioned in this forum before but for just a normal home media server, I've relied on Flexraid. 1. It doesn't change anything as far as files are concerned. So no matter how the system explodes, you can take the drive and plug it into any machine and copy your data off. 2...

no worries. details is what I like to read. So you're running Server 2012 as the base hypervisor (vs ESXI) and then using Hyper-V on top of the server 2012 environment? Just want to make sure I'm understanding correctly. I still haven't decided what route I want to go with either ESXI or...

in case you haven't found it yet: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6530/closing-the-loop-contained-liquidcoolers-from-corsair-and-nzxt-compared I ended up going with the supermicro x9sri-3f, though it will be a few weeks before I can put it together as I'm waiting for some other parts And your...

I can 3rd vouch for flexraid. it's saved me me a couple times over the past year from bad seagate drives.

yeah btw. anandtech just did a review of the new closed coolers. seems the new 2013 Corsair H80i is the way to go for performance. newegg happens to have them on sale atm also.

hehe, velcro works, though just make sure its tight enough that the fans don't vibrate the chasis (so I'd add some zip ties to strengthen it) ideal would be to screw it in somewhere, even a single one would be fine

Never had Tyan. I thought the Intel I350-AM2 on the Super x9sri is supported under esxi? http://vmwarehints.blogspot.com/2012/10/single-root-io-virtualization-sr-iov.html And yeah, finding coolers has not been easy. Luckily the norco 4220 gives me a little room to play with as it seems to...

I'll be interested to know which you're going with OP and how it turns out. Been looking for reviews of these exact boards and couldn't really find anything. LGA2011 not to popular yet?! anyways, I had settled on the X9SRi-3F not sure if the extra sata are even worth it since i'm using a...

you've covered pretty much the standard places. performance-pcs.com and xoxide.com probably fill out what's left. jab-tech is pretty much the cheapest i've found and ship pretty fast. same with performance-pcs. and then i use frozen as a last resort to fill out harder to find pieces.

love my extreme9 so far. and I don't notice the noise of the chipset fan at all. and the new soundblaster is pretty nice. definitely beats realtek

COUGAR CF-V12HP if you can find them, these are great alternatives to the gentle typhoon (ap-15). other recent forum post on them http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1660146

just got in 4 of the 120mm cougars for my WC setup. I didn't really believe the reviews but yeah, they are for the most part silent (running these at full power). There's no real electric hum but more of a gentle "breeze" sound, like sitting outside on a nice spring day, lol. it's actually...

frozencpu.com is another one.

basically, if you've played any modern mmo. then swtor is the same thing other than minor tweaks to the mechanics.

totally didn't think of that. thanks, i was almost going to pick up some mx4

you'd probably be better off going with an asus x79 board if you plan to max out 8 dimms + ocing

if you're doing a new build then go with the 1.5v vengeance, I believe it matches the intel spec better. not to mention amazon/newegg are selling the 8gb (2x4gb) kits for $35.