Recent content by magz

@Blastingcap: Thanks for your response! I hear you. Would the Sempron be okay for dedup?

how about the ASUS M5A97 with either AMD Sempron 145 (2800MHZ) 45W, or an AMD Athlon II x2 Dual-Core 255 AM3 3.1GHz?

Thanks for the responses. No, I'm not going out of my way to build the cheapest solution. I was looking for a M/B with 6 or more on-board SATA6G ports. I'll look up some more options and post back here. AM3 socket? Any suggestions?

Hello, looking for some advice on a ZFS NAS that I hope to build. Posted a similar thread some time back (http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1656931), but that build was not feasible. So now I'm considering a stand-alone machine that can act as my NAS at home to serve movies and stream music...

Good advice, thanks!

Thank you for your response _Gea, and for clarifying a few of my questions there! Are you saying that I shouldn't waste my time with any Sandy Bridge configurations? Unfortunately, there is only one supplier of Supermicro products where I am, and they get a very small range. The only one that...

hello, this is my first post in these forums (please be kind :D). I am a startup business owner of a small software development company and am looking to build a server to virtualize the following OSs: Windows Server 2008 (Development Test Server with IIS + SQL Server 2008 Dev) Windows...