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Patrick, what about an article (or really could be easily expanded to a whole series of articles) about stress testing new hardware. The obvious summary would be ServeTheHome best practices for such testing. My short list of things that I'd personally like to know more about is below. i...

Good afternoon everyone, I have a newegg wishlist stocked with an E3, x9scm, norco case, etc (i.e. the works), but its tallying up to $1900. a bit above what i'm comfortable with. I recently upgrade my main workstation to the sandy bridge platform, which leaves my now unused 775 parts on the...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Pro-Dual-Gigabit-NIC-PCI-Express-/200590701099?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb423322b#ht_500wt_1156 the seller says the dell part number is 0G17P but I cannot find anything on Dell's website about it. the other dual intel PCIe cards up for auction have a heatsink...

I'm looking at the SuperMicro X7SPE-HF-525 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182243 http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPE-HF-D525.cfm my understanding is that the IPMI baseband piggybacks one of the NICs and that in older firmware there is a...

I am looking buying the following combo Supermicro CSE-503-200B http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=11-152-107 http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/503/SC503-200.cfm Supermicro X7SPE-HF-D525 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182243...

Patrick, a minor awesome feature to get would be an RSS feed of forum posts. this would help my productivity at work :D googling a bit, it looks like vBulletin has RSS feeds out of the box, although they aren't turned on by default. i dont see any ads on the forum, which would be a...

is it generally accepted as "proper" to run third-party services directly on a WHS2011 install? my current WHSv1 server is currently running Playon (transcoding web video sources on demand via DLNA), OpenVPN service, and Subsonic music streamer (also capable of transcoding on the fly based on...

Scenario: I build a server with all disk attached directly to raid controller (either a discrete card or an integrate raid solution like on the SM X8ST3-F). Everything is happy. months later I decide that I need more storage that'll outgrow the number of ports available on the raid...

I am familiar with virtualization in general terms; my company uses ESXi hosts to run many VMs and I've used MS Virtual PC and Virtualbox at home to test new OSes and run a local LAMP stack. When it comes to Microsoft licensing, I know that it's never easy to understand. For my upcoming...

Hello servethehome! I'm a new forum registrant and since I am going to poking around and asking a lot of questions I thought I would introduce myself a bit. My name is Jeremy and live in the northern midwest of the US. I have a WHSv1 box that is forcing me to start thinking about hardware...