Recent content by Saggy

I think the "no more used games" isn't as big of a deal(still a big one, see below). What is a big deal is no more rentals, which will kill a lot of games because a lot of games are under the category "rent" instead of "buy". I am sure a lot of people will buy less because of this as well...

the related article on servethehome about x8si6 board suggest that he needed to flash LSI firmware for it to work with HP expander, what is that all about? Does this board not work out of the box with any form of expander? if that's the case, I think the other boards might be better and with...

Are you also referring to the client computer that interacting with the server? So if I were to transfer some data from a desktop to the server, I would image the bottleneck here is the read speed on the desktop system?

Just wondering, for real world home server usage, what is the difference between sas and sas2, that is 3gb vs 6gb? will you actually see the difference with software raid 6 on regular sata drives? basically, would sas be the bottle neck here?

I am about to buy an 11" air for similar purpose. One of my reasons to consider this was the screen resolution which is better than most netbooks out there(I might be wrong). just putting it out there, maybe this could influence your purchase decision as well.

Finally after the help of Danny Bui and Nitrobass24, I finalized the server build except for a raid card. Doing my research on raid cards, it got me thinking about software raid. I don't have any sw raid experiences but from what I have been reading, it seems to be a good idea. I used to think...

About that trailer, I don't have the air yet, I was trying it out at the apple store. I asked because I didn't know which one I should buy, going to buy one soon. Did you guys specifically set that trailer to 1080p hd mode? the link is default to the lowest resolution, you need to specifically...

Can someone with "Ultimate 11" try this 1080p trailer from you tube and tell me if it lags? I know in fact the 1.4gz model plays like a slide show(really crappy slide show at that), how is the 1.6gz? Remember to change mode to 1080p HD from the video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i2RCBa3l-g I...

It seems that nitrobass24's setup are more flexible if I ever wanted to do raid. This is great guys. So if I go with nitrobass24's recommendation, I read in the post you linked to, the board you recommended can support "dual link" so I would connect 2 cables from the board to the expander? Which...

How robust is the on board raid, i much rather use a dedicated raid card, the one danny mentioned isn't too expensive, only 100 dollars, I guess I can live with that. That is assuming I will use the hp sas expander, which is 400 dollars, it's actually more expensive than the raid cards x 3...

Danny, thank you so much for the detailed reply, this is really helpful. EDIT: The norco case uses Six internal SFF-8087 Mini SAS connectors. How do I connect that with the raid sata controller card you recommended? I guess I don't need the break out cables, instead I just buy 4 SFF-8087 Mini...

After a lot of research, I am leaning toward building a WHS. Here are the main parts I am unsure of. Lots of server builds you find on google is fairly cheap, old parts, but I am thinking I want to have at least 10 to 15 drives; after researching, here is the deal: I saw a post that someone...

If I understand correctly, you are suggesting that I do a raid 1 for system drive, and raid 5 for data drives. Both using hardware raid cards. What raid cards are you using for this implementation? 2 arrays within 1 card? edit: I am just thinking, it might be a better more flexible way to do...

Hi, I am new at this, I am planning on building my first self-built NAS. I have always thought a good way to build a nas was with a raid card that supports raid 5 in case of a drive failure, then couple it with maybe Freenas or Openfiler OS. However, during my research, I found that so many...

The one I have is the 5 port proSafe series. The switch is the only possible problem. Wires are fine, the reason why I know it's the switch is because when I get disconnected, everything connected to the switch is disconnected, however the network is still fine from devices not connected to the...