Recent content by Michael Dimech

Do you still have any of the Hades Canyon NUCs left to sell? If so, could you ship one to Malta (EU)?

I only have one of those 3TB disks for now - and I'll be getting 3 others to have a RAID10 config. Quite frankly, I would also choose 4,6 or even 8TB disks to start with - I just don't have the budget for those right now, and I'd like some performance and redundancy increase which is why I'm...

I generally don't buy used which is why I said the pike is cheaper from what I've seen. Regards to details, this is what I had in mind, with the budget set to 800 euros for the server and the remainder for storage : System Build - PCPartPicker Deutschland As of right now those are my...

I'd go with SAS3, especially since if I were to choose the Asus board, their Pike 3008 card is something I would've added if needed, and it's quite cheap compared to other controllers. I'd rather not buy a board with speed limitations so probably I'd go with the supermicro board then - 2 Raid...

I'll probably go with the supermicro board then, especially since it has integrated IPMI and effectively 3 more storage slots in the same form factor. An X99/C612 based server is around €100 from my chosen e-tailer, and that's pairing an Asus Z10PA-U8 with a Xeon E5-1620v3, which I wouldn't...

Basically what the title says, I'm looking to decide between these two motherboards for my upcoming NAS build: P10S-M-DC | Servers & Workstations | ASUS Global X11SSH-F | Motherboards | Products - Super Micro Computer, Inc. The issue I have with these boards is more on the amount of pci-e...

Definitely. I'll probably get one of the new Intel 600p SSDs. I'll amend the choice of RAM for the 2nd build accordingly.

Then I am definitely better off saving some money by having no iGPU. I put the e3-1230v5 in that build and decided to look for different motherboards. I didn't find many motherboards I liked with the consumer-oriented 115x socket so I kept the original one for build 1. For build 2 however, I...

Never knew that the ASMB8-iKVM was required for Asus motherboards - I presumed you just needed to use the IPMI port on the back I/O and go from there. It doesn't seem like that they bundle that module with any of their motherboards, at least the ones I was looking at, and sadly it does look like...

I went for those power supplies due to how many SATA drives they can power. I thought I'd stick with a safe bet of having a high-watt power supply with the right amount of SATA connectors since I don't know any other way of powering SATA drives. With regards to the E3 system, should I get 64GB...

I decided to go for 3TB disks since I usually find them to be the best price/storage drives, but going for 4TB disks very much a possibility I could consider. The Xeon E3 system was done with intention for it to only serve as a NAS, with anything else that I could do with it being a bonus...

Good morning/afternoon/evening reader, whatever applies when you're seeing this! I've been considering building a new machine to offer a NAS service for my important data and while I feel that I have sufficient knowledge in setting up the required software, I'd also like to know what else I...

Basically what's written in the title. I was curious since I intend to build a dual-socket low powered storage server sometime in the future, and with all of these new Broadwell-E motherboards coming out, I was curious if the Xeon E5-26xxv4 would get some dedicated server motherboards. So is...

I guess coincidentally it's a good thing then that I was going to throw a set of 2TB WD Reds. As far as choice goes, this is pretty much the only used server I could find in my country after scrolling the better part of 60 pages worth of results, and I don't think I would be able to find...

I too thought having 6 drive bays was a bit of a low number at first, but I don't think I will need any more than that to be honest. I was looking at a couple of 2U and 3U chassis since usually those can house anywhere between 10-24 drives for a circa €1000 build, but I'm not sure if I will both...