Recent content by akatreyt

excuse my ignorance on this, but can I under power a cpu? I have a i5-3570 but it's 77w, will this screw up the cpu?

I received an Intel DQ77KB and after some deliberation I've decided to try it out as a server board. I ordered a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 to run some drives and most likely going to order the Intel RES2SV240 (since it can use molex power and I only have one pci-e slot). My main concern is on...

adding 100 - 200 isnt that big of deal, but what will that gain me? Also interesting that I can add new hds from different manufactures, this means I can just buy new 2tb and expand the my current raid 5, which is good. I agree with raid 6, might transition my raid 5 over to raid 6 with the...

So it's time for me to redo my sever :) :) :) My current setup is 3x1.5tb and 3x2tb each set in their own software raid 5 running ubuntu, but I'm now out of space and believe it is time to get it going for real. Looking to be able to expand to around 20 drives. Also not sure what is the best...