London Bridge builds some neat stuff. And their stuff can take a beating.
Lots of military contracts/experience. And unless otherwise stated, made in USA.
Thanks for reaffirming my thinking everyone. I haven't come up with a downside, except the initial cost of the mSATA drive. And I still would have had to shell out for an ssd, so the cost is a moot point. And I still have a large-ish platter drive for 'stuff'.
It seems to work and is giving...
Quick note->
I passed my T61p down to my Father and ordered a refurb T530 from Lenovo Outlet.
Arrived in 3 days in perfect condition. i5 3320M, 1920x1080 screen, 4GB ram, 500GB hdd. The supplied Toshiba hdd seemed much slower than the Seagate 500GB I had in the T61p. It had to go. But...
I purchased an x750 recently from Newegg, on sale, for about ~$120.00. What a BARGAIN! Quiet, fully modular, and cable lengths that were spot on for my build. The x750 just felt like a quality piece of equipment.
Update-
I received my chip (and heat sink) in excellent condition. Package was, for all intents and purposes, New In Box. Thenemesis shipped my package Tuesday, from Texas, and I received it today. Priority Mail.
Thank-You.
Nice find, Briguyatx!
I try to keep a good psu on hand, and recently had to use my spare Corsair HX750 in my my server replacing an old Corsair HX620 that would no longer boot the machine.
Thanks for sharing.
Onboard Intel NIC is a feature that separates the wheat from the chaff, in my opinion. All things being equal, I would take the Asus over the other boards.
I could really use a new power supply.
Wuss out ->
Jockeys at tomorrow's race meetings will be wearing black armbands in memory of Michael Jackson, who rode more three year olds than anyone in history.
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MJ...
I bought a Dell 24u rack on ebay for $200.00 some dollars last Spring. Local pick-up option was offered, so dodged the shipping cost. And it came with a Dell KVM and a Dell 15" console.
Comcast business class available in your area? I just left the Home side for the Commercial side, and all I can say is WOW. I am paying for 22/5, but I bench at ~70/15.
Update...
Got a (THE) call from Comcast. I used 1.3TB last month, and will be banished for 1 year if I continue my evil ways. And I'm already over the 250GB limit by 80GB for December.
Business Class here I come.
My Condolences on your loss.
I know it led a long productive life, long past what it's peers saw.
My question...
What were you doing with it?
Pfsense?
Print server?
I actually bought 2 of the Samsung F3s for that reason. I'm not sure what I want to do yet. I'm really looking at flexraid right now, and that motherboard port is 'Reserved'. Could get a parity drive yet. But I would like the peace of mind having the os drive mirrored...
I'm moving the contents of my WHS (Intel DG45ID) to a Norco 4220 w/ a Supermicro X8SIL /Xeon 3440. Through an HP procurve 8 port gig switch. I'm seeing transfer speeds of 84.4MB/second. All drivers are the most current listed on Supermicro's site.
The WHS used 5x Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB drives...
Thanks for the clarification. My understanding was a 7200 rpm would offer a noticeable speed increase during a parity check, and I planned to add a 2TB 7200 rpm to my setup for that reason. I'm too new to the unRaid/Flexraid scene, even though I read as much as I can...
@ treadstone
I've searched your thread here and on flexraid's forum. Are you using one of your Green drives as your parity drive or is the parity drive a 7200rpm.
Thanks, and what a nice setup!
I was building an upgraded Vail home server when I realized Vail was not for me.
My hardware->
Norco 4220 chassis
Supermicro X8sil-f-o
Xeon 3440
Kingston KVR1333D3E9SK2/4G
2xSamsung f4 hdds (so far)
I'm kicking around the idea of running server 2008r2 w/ flexraid view. My main use is...