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My disks are full on WHSv1 reads are about 65MB/s and writes about 35MB/s so I can't compare. I like the way 2011 behaves vs v1. Remember that gigabit LAN will max out at ~100MB/s. I only have 2TB drives, nothing larger to test. Formatted they are only about 1.85TB. I looked at the 2012...

cafcwest is right. I'm testing 2008R2, WHS 2011 now and have been running WHS v1 since May 2009. This is my initial observations. My purpose is a media server for A/Vrecordings, backup, storage, no need or live RAID/ZFS. WHS v1 has been very good to me, current uptime is over 3 months...

I have no idea about the power draw of your RAID card, but I'd think that the CPU and PSU are likely drawing some extra power. This system will idle at 54W, hits 108W on bootup. Win7 on "power save" mode. Asus M4A785-M undervolted Sempron 140 unlocked to dual core 4400e (same power usage...

Sucky AT&T DSL, billing nightmares, time to change to something else, but what? It seems like the only other options here in SE FloriDUH are Comcast or Uverse which is another AT&T product.

I don't know for sure, but I suspect it is Windows reducing speed. This pattern and speed seems very consistent, I've done it several times. If I use the same Win7 "sending PC" to a different Win7 "receiving PC" (instead of the Win8 PC), the transfer is over 100MB/sec the entire transfer. In...

I had some updates for Win8 customer preview this morning, installed them. I have 5 X 2TB Samsung disks in parity. Sending the Win8 ISO will go at over 100MB/sec for about half the transfer, then it throttles down to between 25-50MB/sec for the rest. I have an Intel Pro1000 PT NIC installed...

Just get a Killawatt and plug your PC into it, it plugs into an outlet. You can measure real time power with one drive, then add some more and remeasure. Power supplies also vary this is some testing I've been doing. Lowest idle power to date is Intel DH61WW and i3-2100, 18W with Seasonic...

I have a similar "smaller scale server". It has a Sempron 140 unlocked to dual core (same power usage as single core mode), Asus M4A785-M board, 2x1GB DDR2, Seasonic 300W Bronze PSU, 6x2TB Samsung drives, running Lubuntu 11.04 off a 16GB USB flash drive (also tested this with unRAID on a 1GB...

I did some extensive testing with several different NICs and a couple different switches here in 2008. My onboard Realteks seemed to always be fast one way and dog slow the other way. Recent testing with the Lubuntu server showed some oddities where the Realtek 8111C (06/2011 dated driver...

I don't know if you already bought the zacate board, but I'd either switch to a regular AMD CPU or an Intel Sandy Bridge CPU, both will have a lot more processing power and use little if any more than the zacate at idle, maybe even less. I'd imagine that ZFS will use some CPU. I briefly tested...

I have been trying something similar recently, similar system, only 2GB RAM though, with my now unlocked Limpron 140 "dual core" aka 4400e. My WHS v1 is acting up, and I generally don't like how it operates, thrashes the crap out of hard drives during the night. It was totally locked up for...

I'm testing a FreeNAS 8.0.1 build, AMD Limpron 140, 2GB RAM, Asus 785 board, three 2TB Samsung F4 drives. FreeNAS is running on a 4GB USB flash drive. Intention is using this for streaming SageTV videos, backups, downloads, etc., small system with 6 or less drives. The three 2TB drives in...

I bought three Samsung F4s last fall for a new media server build. I wiped a old flash drive, set up Samsung's firmware, ESTools, but I also added on BIOS updates for 2 new motherboards. This setup works really well and has been very handy. I'm not using it for anything else now in case I...

I'm getting a new PSU and RAM today. When I update, I'll try and run some benchmarks and see what the settings actually accomplish.

I am building a "low power server" using a combo deal i3-550 and freebie Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H board. A while back I bought three 2TB Samsung F4 drives for media storage, tonight I updated their firmware. I'll use a laptop drive for the OS. When I run Samsung ES Tools it shows that SMART is...