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 find google results and other forums are littered with trolls. I have a working understanding of things like Prime95, memfree, etc...but could really use an expert's guide.
* CPU testing, burn-in procedures
* Memory testing
* Hard drive testing <-- this is a biggie for me
tied to this series could be other articles covering performance benchmarking for all the above. I know you have documented your benchmarking procedures but a how-to may benefit many here.
i think this all fits in the intended material of the site. always looking forward to tomorrow's article whether you take up this suggestion or not!
-jeremy
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 find google results and other forums are littered with trolls. I have a working understanding of things like Prime95, memfree, etc...but could really use an expert's guide.
* CPU testing, burn-in procedures
* Memory testing
* Hard drive testing <-- this is a biggie for me
tied to this series could be other articles covering performance benchmarking for all the above. I know you have documented your benchmarking procedures but a how-to may benefit many here.
i think this all fits in the intended material of the site. always looking forward to tomorrow's article whether you take up this suggestion or not!
-jeremy