Recent content by Bubber Jones

Mine is named Silo

I'd like to add an Areca controller to my WHS and put it into a Norco 4220, or 3216. Currently my hard drives are on my motherboard and a cheap SATA PCIe card. If I put an Areca in, can I move the drives to the new card from where they are now without upsetting WHS and have it still see the...

This one has the same SATA/SAS configuration, but also has 2 cpus and 18 slots for memory. That's up to 144 GB of ram... If you're gonna go, go all out... :p

Ok, I've got a trade lined up for one of these. That should do it for the power supply, right?

Thanks for the replies. Like I said, this is kind of on a budget, but not the cheapest build that I can make. I want it to have legs. The difference between 1-2 GB of ram and 4 GB of ram only being $20, it's a no brainer to me to go with 4 GB. There are some good ideas posted that can save me a...

My current storage server is a P4 2.4 GHz, 1 GB ram, 180 GB WD IDE system drive and 7 300 GB IDE storage drives on 2 Promise IDE cards. The system is in a 4U rack mount case, it's loud, since it's my backup server, it's not in my rack, but on the other side of the basement... My plan is to...