Aug
3
Hitachi 7K2000 2TB
Filed Under Home Server | 1 Comment
I can’t believe it has only been 8 months since I ordered my first 2TB hard drive, and about 4 months since I picked up a second 2TB hard drive when one of my 1TB drives failed… but now I am own three! Last week NewEgg was having a sale, $30 off, and I had [...]
Mar
31
Is a Hard Drive upgrade in order?
Filed Under Desktop, Home Server | 7 Comments
At home I have a decent amount of total disk space available to me. I have several hard drives of various brands and sizes from over the years that I still actively use, including Maxtor, Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, Western Digital, 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and now 2TB drives. What I do not have, however, is much [...]
Mar
27
P35-DS3P v1.1 – 8GB (4x2GB)
Filed Under Home Server, Virtual Server | 1 Comment
Over a year ago I had purchased 8GB of G.Skill memory for my home Virtual Server. Unfortunately, I was never able to get the memory to boot properly. I tried tweaking timings, updating the BIOS, drivers within the Operating System. None of them really helped. I had a range of problems, including: Random Operating System [...]