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…
I already have the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens but cannot find it. Luckily it went on sale to a price I couldn’t ignore. I found it for $92 then I price matched it at Best Buy. So not only was I able to get it for a lower price, I got points on…
Canon released a new lens back in June 2012. It’s the 40mm f/2.8 STM lens. It’s using the new STM (stepping motor).With this feature, it allows for a very quiet focusing during video capture. I was able to play with the lens at the store using a Canon T4i (at the moment, the only camera…
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…
My budget HTPC build’s (I just realized I didn’t blog about it, but no worries I will post it soon) power supply died and it’s only 3 months old. It was a Cooler Master GX 450W bronze. For a couple of weeks, the PC didn’t turn on. At first I thought it could be lose…
A few weeks ago I bought a new UPS for my home server. At first, I figured the surge protector would be enough but I got worries since I leave the server on mostly everyday. I’ve invested a lot in not only the hardware but the data it’s storing as well. I did some research…
I’m on my second HTC Sensation 4G and it has given me problems. Rather than get a third, I decided to get the Samsung Galaxy Nexus from Google. I bought Abby her’s for her birthday a few months ago and she’s enjoyed it. I have played with it and it runs a lot faster and…
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve been putting together my new home server and it’s finally finished. Here are the parts I used. Some of them are from another computer that I took apart and repurposed. The links are just references to the parts and the price is before tax and after rebates…
I have a computer that is running the Intel i5 2500K. All it does is it transcodes ripped movies. I originally had the stock heatsink fan that came with the CPU but Handbrake and X.264 uses up a lot of CPU resources that the fan kicks up and my temps get high. So I decided…
I finally received my new Adaptec 6805 raid card today. After messing with 2 lower end cards (Highpoint and Supermicro) that both failed after a few days, I decided I’ll invest and get the bad boy. This card alone cost more than my server (except the 8x 2TB drives) all together. Shout out to Jeff…