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    Any Cloud Storage Service ?

    Hi everyone. I am in search of some cloud storage service which gives a good price. I would be happy with basic SFTP or SSH access to Upload/Download the files. It would need to have at least 12TB. Basically I would like it to work as remote storage. The services I found online only work as...
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    [How To] Tape Drive + WHS

    Hello Everyone, I bought a HP StorageWorks Ultrium 1760 LTO4 Tape Drive with external SFF8088 and a few LTO4 tapes. I pretend to do backups to my 12TB share and keep them on these tapes in a separated physical location. I though it would be possible to connect the tape drive to my Areca 1880i...
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    File Integrity @ WHS 2011

    Hi all, I'm interested in knowing a little bit more about file integrity with Windows systems. I have a WHS2011 with 16TB in Raid6, I don't feel any problems with loosing data since I am running Raid6 and will also start to make monthly (enough for me) backups to LTO5 Tape. I am curious...
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    Case for JBOD/DAS + Remote "turn on" PSU

    Hello everyone. I am in search of a case, near mid-tower size to handle at least 15HDD for a DAS/JBOD. The cheapest options I found are based on those 9-bay DVD Duplicators. I woud then use 3x (3x5.25 to 5x3.5) backplanes to hold 15 HDDs. Output would be from a HP SAS Expander to an Areca 1880...
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    850 Pro vs Extreme Pro

    I want to upgrade the current ForceGT 64GB that I have on my server. They are 2 in Raid1. What would you advice me between Samsung 850 Pro 256GB vs SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB ?? Ideas? Which one is faster, more reliable, do both use same NAND type ?? Regards.
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    Dell C2100 Nas/San mezzanines?

    Hello everyone. I am going through ebay to try and find a nice server to host 12x drives and run a few VMs. I have found the C2100 to have good prices but I have some doubts about it. In one of the mezzanine ports it only supports the LSI 2008 SAS card, is that right ? I want one card...
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    [Help] Newer Switch = Slower Speeds

    Hello everyone. I have made a switch upgrade since I had one with a few years old (7), its web config was old and non-working with nowadays browsers, and I was expecting to get better performance overall with a fresh new device. After watching a lot of reviews and stuff, I found a nice deal on...
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    D-Link DGS-1510-28P

    Hi all, I am thinking about buying this piece. Still I have a few worries regarding its noise. At the moment I have a Cisco SRW-2024 which looks like a train :D, and I would like to evolve into this new piece which I found at an interesting price ~200€. I guess the question is more...
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    new to Infiniband

    Hi all, I am recently buying two Mellanox cards for private testings (MHQH29-XTR). Although and since I've never worked with Infiniband, I have quite some doubts about it's cabling. Both cards have dual VPI QSFP connectors (40Gbit(IB)/10Gbit(Eth)). My question is do these cards work...
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    HW Firewall for home

    Hello my dear friends. I have a few questions regarding this topic. In the first step I have a home connection like this: Internet - Modem (Bridge mode) - Router - Switch All the devices are connected to the switch I would like to understand, a HW firewall should be placed in between...
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    WinExplorer + Akamai ? Security problem ?

    Hello dear friends, I have some interests in Security, and I would like to know what could be happening with my Windows Explorer? I can see that its downloading at a constant 4KB/s from 3 different akamai servers. 212.191.241.9 212.191.241.27 x2 Remote port is 80, so I am not sure...
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    Memory issue Windows Server 2008 (svchost)

    Hello dear e-friends, I am trying to analyze this problem I have been having for some months. This is happening in Windows Home Server 2011 (WS2008R2). The issue I am noticing is that at regular time-intervals (1 hour) svchost makes use of some big ammount of memory, around 500MB. It is...
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    RDP security/monitor

    Hello dear friends. I am looking for some software which can deal with monitoring/managing the Windows RDP. I am concerned with some brute-force attacks which some of my servers may be a targeted. They are WXP, WS2003, WS2008R2. Something like RDPGuard would be nice but also freeware...
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    High utilization Low bandwith

    Hello guys, I am with a strange behaviour on the newtork. Two Giga NICs on a server 2nd NIC is bind to virtual machine So the virtual machine runs XP and has a torrent software. I used the Windows share to access the main OS's share so it would verify a torrent. I am having both NIC's...
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    Disable NCQ Firmware

    Hi guys, Is there anyway to Disable NCQ for specific disks via Firmware? I have 2 SSD which I would like to leave enable and 8 HDD which I would like to disable. But I cannot do this via the Raid Controller Card since it Enables/Disables it for the whole system.
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    DHCP and Port Mirroring

    Hello guys, I am having a problem which I don't know how to solve. The thing is, I have a Linksys SRW2024 Switch at .1.3 is my DHCP at .1.9 is my Server The problem is that I am trying to mirror traffic from port X to port 9 (where server is) When I have mirror activated the port...
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    Multiple NICs

    Hello people, I need some help on a configuration with multiple NICs. This should be implemented on a Windows Home Server 2001 (WServer 2008 R2) My idea was to use one card for regular LAN stuff (file sharing, random apps, internet access) The other card I would like to specify only...
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    Areca 1880 - WD Red (Raid6 throughput)

    Hello dear e-friends, I am opening this since I am with a speed problem on a Raid6 with 6x WD Red drives. My speeds are kinda low/strange First I find out this problem since my gigabit speeds were hitting 60-70MB/s when doing Raid6 transfers to other devices... These are the speeds i...
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    Areca 1880 fault or Network ?

    Hello Guys, Lately i am setting up a server and i've found a problem which i would like to solve. The thing is, sometimes, when uploading something o the server through the LAN the server stucks for a few seconds meaning the windows says it's impossible to find the location and if i have...
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    Maximus III Formula

    Hello all, I opened this topic because i have a few questions related to this motherboard/chipset. I am building a server based on the i7-860, The thing i don't find explicit in anywhere is the PCIe Lanes speed... It seems that the P55 chiset only provides 8x PCIe 2.0 at half-speed. This...
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    Net-SNMP 5.1

    Hello guys, i have a little question about this Protocol. My router is using Net-SNMP 5.1, I am using a SNMP Client to analize all the traffic used in my PPPoE connection (ppp0). The thing is, everytime the connection reboots it gets a new OID and i have to reconfigure the client to access the...
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    Monitor Traffic & Network Problem

    Hello dear members. I would like to know if there's any interesting software, preferably freeware, that i can use in Windows Home Server (Windows Server 2003) that can monitor LAN and WAN Traffic of some devices ? Some will be mobile phones and others Computers. I would like to have...
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    Roaming Software

    Hello guys, I would like you to help me in a question. My university has hundreds of access points, I would like to know how can i pick a specific AP from the roaming abilities ? Windows ofc sees all of them as 1. However if i use some AP scanners i can see at the moment around 20...
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    Choose Two Raid Cards

    Hello all. I am building a Server system and i want it to have some raid features, so i come here looking for assistance from you with more knowledge than me. The server is a "mid-low" power consumption, It's an Opteron 175 Socket 939 Placed on a Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe And Has 2GB DDR...
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