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As someone who worked on the Seagate-Maxtor merger a few years ago, I was a bit worried to see this morning the news that Western Digital bought Hitachi GST for $4.3 billion. See the press release here.e3-1240 v6 My basic thoughts are that if Western Digital uses Hitachi technology, this is a win for consumers. […]
Recently STH took a look at the AMD Athlon II X2 260 Regor chip and found it to be fairly power efficient and fast enough for most tasks. AMD has virtually every $5 increment in the sub-$120 CPU space covered, so today I am looking at a CPU that costs approximately $30 more, but has […]
The Tyan S5512WGM2NR is a C204 based motherboard for the new Xeon E3 series CPUs that includes an onboard LSI SAS2008 controller. Intel launched an anticipated bombshell on the UP market with Bromolow’s launch this week. The Tyan S5512WGM2NR is targeted at a similar market as the previous generation Supermicro X8SI6-F which is an excellent […]
Updated the SSD Drive and Controller List with: OCZ m84 LSI and Indilinx controllers; Crucial M225 64GB, 128GB, 256GB drivese5-2609 v2
About 10 months ago I decided to enter the world of the Windows Home Server. My storage arrays had outstripped my Cosmos S’s capacity, and running multiple controllers for all of the SAS drives as well as SATA storage became too much. My decision to build a WHS v. buy one was made due to sub-$100 […]
The Big WHS – Two Main Chassis on Display The Big WHS was originally supposed to house approximately 30TB of storage when the plans were first detailed on an Excel spreadsheet BOM in December 2009. This was a big upgrade to my first DIY Windows Home Server box that had well under 20TB. About five […]
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