BYOB Episode 53
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Tonight we talk with Thomas B (AKA thobel on the forums) on his hardware. As you can see from the pictures, he has some pretty impressive stuff. We also touch on a new Corsair power supply series and we talk briefly on the EX-503B. Let us know what you think and don’t forget to post your questions in the forums. We apologize for the voice/Skye quality issues we had. Want to give a special thanks to Tom for staying up late and joining us on the podcast.
The Thobel Hardware
System 1 (Main Gaming Desktop)
Asus Rampage III Extreme
Intel 980x @4.5ghz
6GB Super Talent DDR3 2133
3x Intel X25M G2 160GB in Raid 0
3x Evga GTX580′s
Motherboard, GPU’s, CPU Water Cooled with EK Blocks Dual Water Pumps for redundancy
120.18 of Rads
Case is a Custom Danger Den DD29 Double Wide PSU Silverstone 1500
System 2 (Backup/Old Gaming Build)
Asus Rampage III Extreme
Intel 980x @4.5ghz
12GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1866
3x Intel X25M G2 80GB in Raid 0
3x Evga GTX 480′s
CPU, GPU’s Water cooled with Koolance Blocks Dual Water Pumps for Redundancy
120.5 of Rads
Case is Corsair D800
PSU Silverstone 1500
System 3 (Windows Home Server 2011)
Intel 2600k Asetek 570C Liquid cooling
8GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 Ram
Asus P8P67 Pro
Areca 1261ML 2GB Raid Controller.
Nvidia GTS450
15x 2TB Hitachi 5K3000 Drives
2x2tb R0 for O/S
2x2TB Global Hot Spares
9x2Tb R6 for Data/media
Case is a Lian Li PC-A71F Case with Icy Dock MB455SPF-B Hot Swap Cage PSU Corsair 1000HX
Corsair Corsair PSJ
Lian-Li EX-503B
A special thanks to Ikon and JediTim for the lead on this case
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Category: BYOB, Windows Home Server
From all those above I like the most the last one, Intel 2600k Asetek 570C Liquid cooling.
Great Show,
Tom what are you using for software to backup to your freinds house? I know you have a VPN setup, I use LogMeIn for VPN
I'm using sync toy
PCDoc, do you have those WHS2011 services posted somewhere that you modified to reduce stuttering/streaming problems? I'd be curious to see which ones those are, as I've had a few random stutters that seemed unexplained at the time.
Yes I could use them also.
I listened the podcast just tonight, I heard you talk about the RAID card in the HomeServer, I wanted to know which 16 port RAID card is being used in the HomeServer? I am guessing it is a 3ware? I have a 12 port 3Ware 9550SXU, it still runs great but it is old and on a PCI-X slot. I may be upgrading my server so the PCI-X card probably won't be usefull on a new motherboard. Any detail aboout it, and why you chose it over the others would be appreciated. Would two 8 Port boards work any better? I heard that 8 to 10 drives are the practical limit for a RAID5 array.
thobel mentioned that he uses a special router with dual wan ports – what was the make and model?
[...] running 24×7. A roughly $2K budget was set, with the $8000 works of art/masterpieces seen here are admittedly far out of my range. I also wanted to avoid complex hackery required to get ESXi [...]
ServerGrunt, we use this to manage WAN load sharing and failover. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9925/index….