Recent content by charlesshoults

WHS was/is causing me some initial problems. It seems that by default, Microsoft disables hibernation mode and does not power down drives after inactivity, so even with the Lights Out add-in, I was unable to select either sleep or hibernate. After enabling settings through power options, I can...

Right now, I have a fifth drive connected to an eSata port. After I have the PCI-E card for the other four internal drives, I'll fill it with all of my existing drives and changing them out one-by-one with 2TB drives. I want to rotate those drives out to an eSata enclosure but have ye to model...

I'm working on a relatively small wooden computer case, right now to house Windows Home Server components but with Microsoft apparently killing off WHS, that may change, possibly to Amahi or UnRaid. For now, the thing is up and running: ECS H55H-I Intel i3-550 Crucial Ballistix...

My WHS was really nice until the motherboard died, but that was purely fault of hardware. After it failed, I set up an Ubuntu server for general file storage, then set up UnRaid to backup my Ubuntu server. I have hardware for a new WHS coming in today and tomorrow, so I'll get that set back up...

I hate to use the word Cloud, but I just did. I'm not sure how you would actually classify this thing. It's not quite distributed computing but certainly is distributed storage. I don't know how it's data replication/recovery works at all. Last night, I started reading about the...

I have a couple of unused Centera-SN2s sitting at home. A guy at work asked how well I thought they would run Windows Home Server. Honestly, I'd never tried, so this weekend, I gave it a shot. I know that the drives are all past their expected lifespan, so I didn't expect much out of them...

Good to know about the wireless. So, looks like I'm most interested in the Zotac IONITX-F-E Atom N330 board. It should be silent, pretty low power, but not really cheap. 2 out of 3 isn't bad and if I need more than the onboard video can provide, it has an x16 PCI-E slot. Having the wireless...

I'm building a dedicated XBMC and need to find a motherboard capable of full HD. My goals are low cost, low power and low noise, so I'm looking first at mini-itx motherboards built for the Intel Atom, preferably the 330 or 510. The system needs only a single hard drive, probably a 160GB 2.5"...

I'm not sure whether this would best fit under Displays or General Hardware. Yesterday after work, I began looking for build logs of digital picture frames based on Linux. I found one good one from back in 2006, where the author posted all of the scripts he used to get it all to function...

Dude, that's cool. A transparent OLED isn't going to give a high contrast image, but for situations where color uniformity isn't important, that would be nice.

Obviously this image is a fake because you can't see the monitor stand, but are all transparent LCDs faked? If it could be done, I don't imagine the image would be very bright in normal lighting, but could it be done?

I see the design of the Antec Lanboy Air, and I think why not. You've basically got a frame made of straight aluminum sections, about 1" square. From there, your drive bay assemblies attach to the frame. You've got a motherboard tray, fan mounts, PSU housing and your front panel connections...

Yeah, that's probably the best idea. Get a board that's capable and when controllers are more reasonable, add a x4 or higher card. I see one x4 controller card out there right now, but for $180, they can keep it. A lot of the boards that are out there, you have to be careful of even if they...

Hey, I didn't make the thing, I'm just saying it's there.

Your options are limited because Gigabyte seems to be one of the only forward-thinking manufacturers out there right now. Intel themselves don't have anything that natively supports either USB3.0 or SATA-III. USB3.0 is currently via a chip provided by NEC, and only gives you two USB ports. A...