Recent content by Plastikman

If you are considering spending a few hundred bucks for an outboard usb storage array, you might just consider spending about twice that and building a dedicated media server? you could pick up an HP n40l. With minor modding, you could fit 6 drives in it for a $275-$350ish price...

Good choice on the parts you ordered. The Supermicro Board is really nice. The IPMI features of the "F" version make it even better.. BUT.. It is seriously getting old in its life and the new sandy and ivy bridge chips are using less electricity with more horsepower when needed. Intel...

LoL at that typo.. Try the button right above the 3.. 6.. I wish it held at 30 under load. It is holding at 60c (ish) [59c-63c] after running Prime95 for several hours. I did notice a few pages back in this thread that some people already pointed out the CPU header does not work as...

Thanks for the quick reply. After swapping the headers out (pump on Chassis FAN1), Setting the target speed to Level 6 or slower results in the pump getting quiet. If I put the pump on CPU fan1, it is really loud no matter what setting it is at. With the Fan on CPU1, it is defiantly...

Question for people running this board with an H60. I just got my parts today and got the base build done. Forgive me if I am asking a commonly asked question, I have never used or heard an H60 before buying one for this build. The pump on my H60 sounds horrid. it is really loud. especially...

I would look at the Plextor M3P's with the the advanced garbage collection (I think that is the model). that way it will clean up the array drives with close to trim like write speeds.. I use the 256GB Corsair Performance Pro SSD's myself for my ESXi datastores. they also have the same...

I picked up one of these boards up Friday with an i5 3570K at the microcenter sale. The combo came in at under $300 before taxes. I just could not pass it up. To finish the build out, I ordered one of the new new SG05's with USB3 and a 450watt PSU, 2x 8GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance LP, 1...

The mini is really a nice bit of hardware. I use the 2010 Aluminum model for my HTPC in my living room and cant be happier. I am not a big fan of Apple or their overpricing of hardware.. but I'll admit.. it just works and works well.. and is nice cosmetically. as far as windows 7.. If you...

Yes. you use forward breakout cables, you cab find them cheap on monoprice.com some people put a SAS expander in the storage enclosure so that you only need 1x (or 2x) 8088 cable(s) per enclosure. That way your SAS HBA could drive multiple enclosures.

I am also in a similar boat. I have a Samsung SH-D162C IDE DVD with Kreon firmware. up until now, i have just kept an old LGA775 shuttle PC just to keep this drive running. Let us know what you end up with. I might look into that Rosewill RC-204.

Hoping to put you at ease a little about sammys. I have 2 RAID arrays on Areca cards with Samsung Drives. One has 8 Samsung F4's in RAID6 And one has 16 Samsung F4's in RAID6 with a hot spare. both arrays have been running since 10/21/2010. not a single dropped disk or error. (both are backed...

In my opinion, it is usually cheaper to go the build your own server over a NAS. Plus, you can usually get more bang for your buck if you know what apps to add to your server. While it is true Synology tosses a lot of bang into their NAS's you can find the same stuff for a server. I wont...

Lian Li PC-A77FB with 4 5in3 cages to get you 20 drives. I run a prominent 9 with 3 Sumpermicro 5in3's for 15 drive. I love it (once i swapped the SM fans out)

They are nice looking, uber expensive, slow pieces of shit that eat your data due to a proprietary file system when they die 4 days out of warranty.

I upgraded to BIOS V2.0a and it "seems" completely stable. BIOS 1.01a had some "Reported" issues with ESXi and PCIe issues. BIOS v2.0 has had "reports" of the NICs getting their ROM corrupted upgrading to 2.0 (Supermicro has a fix to re-flash the NICs) A few quick notes on the 2.0a...