Right before black Friday, Newegg put the Seagate ST3000DM001 3TB hard drives on sale. I picked up 3. It’s been a few weeks now and I finally found time to install it in my server.
Well 1 of the 3 is DOA. This could be my first DOA hard drive. It failed the tests using Seatools so now I’m trying to see if it’s repairable. If not, I’ll be sending an RMA to Newegg.
I got a couple of upgrades for my [home server]/blog/2012/07/04/my-new-home-server/. First, I got more ramGSkill F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL. Not really sure what the difference is with my first set of ram. The specs are the same, CL9, 1.5v, DDR3 1600. It recognized them and no problems so far. I ‘m now running a total of 16GB. The…
I just picked up a Logitech MX Revolution mouse and I must say it’s a great mouse. It’s a wireless mouse using RF. The USB receiver is small and it comes with a cradle that recharges the mouse. The shape is nice and my hand feels great when using it. There are a lot of…
I’ve been messing around with the AMD E350 platform for a few months now and have been trying out VMWare and Freenas on it. The results were impressive. Don’t underestimate the E350, it can do some lifting. I then got curious with HTPC. I was able to use my existing hardware. I also had spare…
I’ve been playing around with the idea of getting one of those low powered CPU and running ESXi on it. I finally got a chance to playing around with one. I picked up an Asrock E350M1/USB3 from Newegg. I also got a G.Skill 8GB of ram installed. Unfortunately, the ram and mobo/cpu weren’t on sale…
The time has finally come to replace my new/old Gigabyte Z68MA-D2H-B3 motherboard. I knew the time would come even when I bought it. It was one of the first Z68 motherboards in the market. It’s a micro ATX form factor so expandability is limited. It served me well and exceeded expectations. Alas, I have outgrown…
I have been building another computer for a few months now that will be my transcoding machine. Here’s the latest addition. Newegg had this fan on sale and it has many great reviews. I was curious and figured it wouldn’t hurt to try it. Besides, I’m only running the stock heatsink (i5-2500K) and it does…