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I started to comment on my friend John’s blog and decided that my comment was too long and what John really did was “tag” me (see this blog post for a good example of tagging someone else (Meme Time: Growing Up Geek)) so here goes, my storage addiction for the world to see: This post has moved permanently to http://bargelt.com/how-much... ......

 

I finally the email notification that I've been waiting to receive.


 


 

So after receiving my Tyan motherboard and reading the documentation I realized that the power supplies I had planned to use would not work. The Tyan motherboard requires an EPS12V compatible power supply. What is EPS12V? EPS12V is a special, non-ATX standard adopted by the Server System Infrastructure (SSI) group to provide a more powerful and stable environment for critical server-base This post has moved permanently to http://bargelt.com/tb-serve... ......

 

I thought I would combine a few components that really aren’t all that special. Don’t get me wrong, these are pretty important components but I’m not going to tell you much that you don’t know about an AMD Opteron.


 


 

In my first post on this subject, I Need More Hard Drive Space I casually state at the end that “I am seriously considering a complete server retrofit (Option 4?) in order to get a 64-bit PCI or PCI-X slot or both.” Well folks I decided to take the p This post has moved permanently to http://bargelt.com/tb-serve... ......

 

As you may well know I am building a TB server – I found a great guide on Tom’s Hardware that compares five new SATA RAID controllers. I’ve decided on the AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP for my machine (NewEgg is out of stock… so my machine build is on hold!). This post has moved permanently to http://bargelt.com/awesome-... ......