Recent content by jhon

Now it's less than 10 drives. ~6-7 4tb 5900 rpm. The port problem was fixed with cheap asm1061 cards. I bought all of them (posted earlier) and all were working with the port multiplier toy. Kept one, sold the rest...

Got an Antec 380d psu... At idle it shaved OVER 10W. A g3258 + h81 mobo + 1SSD eat 10W at idle with a 380d and ~20W with a fsp. At ~40W loads both psu are the same, but at very low loads the difference is huge. I have even seen 8.40W!! http://s17.postimg.org/qpv3lv3mn/image.png

I'll stick with what i have for now. 21-23W idle is ok. This asmedia has arrived and it's perfect - http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-2-eSATA-SATA-3-0-to-PCI-E-PCI-Express-Card-Adapter-Converter-6-0Gbps-ASM1061/141006206664 Has port multiplier support and works with my toy. 4TB GPT drives work...

Found a cheap psu to test. Fortron FSP-ATX-400PNF - g3220 - GA-H81M-DS2 - 2GB ddr3 1333, 1.5V - 5400rpm laptop hard drive Idle has dropped to 21W from 25W. Prime = 42W. I'm sure this FSP 400PNF is a crappy thing, but it seems much better than 500W Chieftec GPS-500AB-A. I think...

I've started a new build... For just under 80$ i got 3 parts: - g3220 - GA-H81M-DS2 - 2GB ddr3 1333, 1.5V Using the same Chieftec GPS-500AB-A and just a laptop hard drive for os, i see 25W at idle in win 8.1 64. Retested the amd build by disconnecting all the hard drives and all...

That was an awesome read with lots of info! Thanks for taking the time! I have a basic fileserver built with old parts, that does absolutely nothing but store files and serve them via smb over the Gb lan. It looks like this: - GA-870A-UD3 - phenom 2 x4 @3000 (1.15v load, 0.75v idle@1100mhz...

Hi, i'm looking to build a basic fileserver with 10 hard drives. I want it to use as little power as posible at idle with drives off. Was thinking of a G1820 + some h81 mobo, like the ASROCK H81M-VG4, 2GB RAM, windows 7. The issue is with the sata ports. With only 4 ports, one needs more for...