Recent content by LhasaCM

There always is a lot to consider...though it's taken me years (and many wasted dollars) to realize that. :) Depending on where you are as far as maxing out the connections on your 9650SE cards, or even your motherboard, you could (theoretically) use your current cards/PC to support a move to...

Methodology: Belt and suspenders Software: Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, Cloudberry Medium: Home server in closet (with a mix of a hardware-based RAID6 array, Windows Storage Spaces, and individual disks) External drives Cloud Interval: Nightly for backing up individual PCs...

Your reading is correct. Essentials (basically) takes the best of Windows Home Server and Windows Small Business Server from previous generations, and deploys it on the Server 2012 R2 platform. I made the move to that myself at home when Home Server went away. As someone whose wife gets...

Makes sense. Are you going to be using Server 2012 R2 Essentials to avoid the whole CAL complication at home? One other thing to ponder if you're going with Essentials: if your wife will not be using the laptop (i.e., only needs local access to her files on her computer), you could leave...

Well, you're either laying out close to $2k in small chunks over the next however many months before you gain capacity, or waiting until the end to blow the whole thing. To at least start thinking about other options or maybe a slightly different plan of action, I'm curious: 1. How static...

If I'm reading this correctly, I think your pooling plan makes sense. Just to confirm: pool 1 would be your central file storage, and pool 2 would be the backup to your media server? Or is there some other storage that's on the network (you mentioned it'd be "working files and data you access...

Sorry - I should've clarified the "fairly low end" comment. Compared to many "RAID" cards on the market, it's a far better solution. However, compared to the higher end enterprise level cards, it has a somewhat slower processor and not a ton of memory. Probably not noticeable in day-to-day...

Throwing out my two cents: rather than buy drives over time when you're not really going to make use of them, why not just save up over the 6 months to a year so that you're benefitting in the end from (1) whatever the latest technology is (2) the expected continued trend of prices dropping back...

Closing the thread for now; will repost when I have a few more items to sell and better certainty about when I'll be able to ship.

Sunday morning bump

For sale: a Gigabyte Radeon HD7970 3GB card. Being sold AS-IS, and all sales final. That said, was pulled from a working system right before Christmas (got a Shield and GTX 780 to mess around with to see how that worked out and if that made it easier to fit in gaming), and been in the...

It's not just North Carolina. Virginia has a similar law already on the books. It allows companies to request an exception if they can show that no dealer is available. Last month, Tesla requested such an exception, and was denied. As with the new North Carolina law, the auto dealers were...

Have you tried connecting two of the backplanes directly to the motherboard without the expander to try to isolate the problem?

Do you still have your old mechanical drive with Windows you can put back in and go back to where you were pre-SSD?

http://download.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/35yrlimitedwarrantyssd320520seriesenlish.pdf has Intel's warranty policy for current SSDs, including how to obtain warranty service (thanks, Google!) Proof of purchase is one of the things they say they require...