Recent content by bookmage

Yeah, your i7 is 50w because of the video card. My i5 and i3 setups both run the same 30ish watts. Identical builds with just the cpu being different. Once I add the dozen drives, it idles under 50w and peaks around the 70ish watt range. Your striped raid is not going to be your...

buying a small nas is the easy way of getting up and running w/least amount of hassle. Your biggest worry would be buying a drive thats compatible and has no issues, and how much u want to spend for how many features you don't need. I run a small number of prebuilt NAS boxes that I picked up...

they do make 73w i5s. I'm guessing your looking at the dual core w/HT which will show up as 4 logical cpus to the OS. So pick the most power you can afford at that TDP. You're looking at TBs of data right? so using a striping setup would require a lot of hard drives for medium performance...

What OS will be running on it? How powerful is the system and what will the system be doing? just file sharing? media encoding? How you setup your drives depends on what they will be doing. Unless you really need the performance and have the network to support it, RAID10 is usually...

WHS certainly does work for your listed requirements. You can stream to other PCs and to your 360s using pvconnect or another compatible plugin. Depending on your videos, you may need to transcode the video, which would require some processing power and ram... Haven't used the skype part, but...

They make 2.5in SAS drives for enterprise environment. They do come in 10L and 15K rpms in roughly the same sizes as their 3.5in counterparts. These days, I'm looking more for low wattage/heat and less space. I'm moving away from the rack environment w/2u or 4u servers at home... With the...

yeah... im would argue the intel budget/midrange is equal to amd or less... with the amd being better bang for the buck. however, depending on ur usage, u may get more performance per watt... and since you haven't decided on the purpose of the nas... general file sharing? or media streaming? or...

HW Raid will require the use of pci-express slots usually x4,x8 or x16 for most bandwidth. You can dumb controllers that work in the pci-express slots and still use software raid. I use something like this but there are other versions that other people have used. Some swear by the supermicro...

PCI does not have the bandwidth for raid5 with SATA3Gbps drives or the like. However, your 100Mb network would be the other limiting factor until u get GBe nics or use the mobo with GigE on it. you are mainly using the dumb controllers just for space, not performance. None of those mobos have...

the third board should give u the best performance... and the pcie 1x does offer some upgradability and extended life... depending on ur purpose and expected life, the s754 mobos would be good for a basic file server on a 100mb network where performance isn't that essential. My WHS server which...

I've powered on the psu by using a paperclip and jumpering the green with one of the black ground cables. Handy for not having a mobo around. However, I always took precautions to make sure not to touch the paper clip and power on the psu by a surge protector type thing. or u use a power supply...

Yes it is PCI-X but its backwards compatible. So if you have it in a PCI-x 64bit slot you will reach full speeds. If you stick it in a 32bit pci slot, it'll just run slower. But it will work. For my current setup, the 100mb network is the bottleneck so running it on a regular pci is ok. When...

The Silicon sata chipsets are pretty much compatible and working in ubuntu 9. You should have no problems with it. You could get the Sil 3114 SATA 1.5 or the newer more $$$ SATA3 version... This is on sale for $30 and has 4 internal or 2 esata... You can only use 4 ports at any given time...

I didn't get a chance to play with it yet. Had to rebuild my mame box for the July 4th party. You could try installing the desktop edition, then removing the desktop part... or copy the configs from the desktop version. i think i read 9.10 has it fixed, but that's still alpha... i think i may...

do you have dual network cards in that machine? For a server, the ip should be static and not dhcp which doesn't really solve the issue. The real issue is that it outputs to the command prompt instead of a log file. I'll try a fresh install and see if I get that problem. I was actually waiting...