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Building a Home Server – The Complete Guide @ SSDReview
Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 | By: DennisBeing somewhat of a server snob I often find myself chuckling at guides like this. Most of them are built to insane levels as an attempt to show off while other guides are designed for real world situations. I would consider this guide to be the first.
Let's go down the line, 24TB of storage space. Not many people can afford that kind of storage and unless you are building a storage server there is little need. On top of that how are you going to back up your data? Hardware RAID will only save you from hardware failure and, for most, that is often enough.
Many people never consider data corruption which is why you need to have daily backups of your important data and make sure storage is separated from OS.
Over the past few years, The SSD Review has enjoyed a fairly smooth ride with little to complain about. It wasn’t until our readership explosion that we realized how important backups were. There is nothing worse than a site crash, other than a site crash which also contains a Forum of course. The sudden loss of days, weeks, months and even years’ worth of data cannot arguably be equal to that of valuable Forum members who hate seeing their threads gone. It happened.
Even worse was the fact that our hosting company was receiving premium monthly payments for daily backups, the last of which they had completed some two months prior. It was only for the odd feeling that we had prior to leaving on Christmas vacation that we physically downloaded backups, minimizing our information loss to two weeks. Although website material resulted only in the loss of our Acer S7 Ultrabook Review, the loss of forum posts could never be equaled.I like how this server build was sparked by a server crash and the lack of appropriate backups. Personally I think they could have done better with the hardware and based on the hardware they picked it shouldn't have cost 5k. Heck I have built better servers for less (minus the insane storage requirement) On top of that the drives were sponsored so what cost so much?
Looks like I'll have to do my own guide.
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Al-Qaeda 22 tips for dodging drone attacks: Its like High School
Published: Monday, February 25, 2013 | By: DennisThis isn't directly related to overclocking or computer stuff in general but I find it interesting that most of the items on this list are things high schoolers do to avoid getting caught at parties. Things like using trees to hide or stopping in the shadows and watching the cops walk on by. You know, just the normal cloak and dagger stuff while you are trying to get home or to the next party.
19. When discovering that a drone is after a car, leave the car immediately and everyone should go in different direction because the planes are unable to get after everyone.
While I'm sure the drone operators will tell you that none of these countermeasures have any impact on the drone there has to be some truth to it else it wouldn't be passed around.
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LG Has Acquired webOS From HP to Power Smart TVs
Published: Monday, February 25, 2013 | By: DennisI was an insider at HP for a few months and the webOS plan was to spin it open source. I guess that never happened.
Update: CNET has seems to have pulled the original story from its website. It's not clear yet whether that's a technical issue or a reflection on the story's veracity.
The deal will see LG take control of the source code for webOS, along with "related documentation, engineering talent, and related webOS websites." It also gets licenses from HP for use with its WebOS products, along with a slew of patents HP obtained from Palm. There's no word on how much the deal was worth.This should be a good move for LG, and the framework for a tablet/tv interface has already been built in so it will be interesting to see what they do with it.
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NL: Review Block: GTX Titan and HWBot World Records
Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 | By: DennisThere will likely be more reviews coming out as people start buying them. Right now most of the cards are being gobbled up by boutique builders and sponsored overclocker types.
GTX Titan Video Card Coverage Wrap-up
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN: The Most Advanced Single-GPU Video Card Ever Made @ Hi Tech Legion
- Nvidia's GeForce GTX Titan reviewed (who submitted this one? oh ya it was TR not putting their name in the link)
- GTX TITAN: The beast to unseat the best! (Bjorn3D doing the excat same thing)
- GeForce GTX Titan review (threeway style) @ GuruThreeDee'z
- Buru3Dees GeForce GTX Titan Overclock Guide
- NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan: Yes, It CAN Play Crysis 3
Might I lay down a quote? The NVidia GTX Titan is by far the coolest video card under LN2.
Be sure to check out some of this HWBot Action
- United States k|ngp|n`s 3DMark11 - Performance score - Professional Overclockers League
- United States k|ngp|n`s 3DMark Vantage - Performance score - Professional Overclockers League
- United States k|ngp|n`s Unigine Heaven - Xtreme Preset score - Professional Overclockers League
- United States k|ngp|n`s 3DMark11 - Performance score - Professional Overclockers League
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Lian-Li PC-N1 Intel NUC Replacement Case Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 | By: DennisI'm not really one for extremely small form factor computing but this case does look pretty pimp. The Intel NUC is a new project they have launched with the sole intention that "if they build it, people will use it". Personally I see it as a niche product for a niche that only exists in the industrial space, and that space can easily be filled with a cellphone/tablet.
One of the first things that we noticed with the PC-N1 is that Lian Li flipped the motherboard orientation. The CPU and chipset cooler is now located on the bottom of the case with large ventilation ports on both ends of the case. That obviously means that the I/O ports are now on the top of the PC-N1 case. On the front of the PC-N1 you have the brand name and the lone USB 2.0 port. Just above the front on the top cover you'll find the power button. The power button has been completely redesigned since the original prototype was shown at CES 2013...
Funny, I didn't see Lian Li at CES this year
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Samsung Series 5 13.3" Touch Screen Intel Core i5/8GB/128GB SSD Ultrabook Review (NP540U3C-A01CA) @ ModSynergy
Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 | By: Dennis*warning* *warning* Long title alert!
Today I get to share with you my experiences with the Samsung Series 5 13.3" Touch Screen Intel Core i5 Ultrabook. The model number of the mid-range Ultrabook I have tested is the NP540U3C-A01CA. Read on the find out more about this sleek, lightweight Ultrabook to see if it should be worth looking at for your future portable computing purchase.
Seems like a good computer, Thin, Light and brushed. Even comes with a touch screen for easy swiping and content digesting.
I'm not so sure it can play Crysis. It does have a Core i5 and only weighs a few pounds but without benchmarks we may never know.
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Arctic Breeze USB Desktop Fan Review @ Hi Tech Legion
Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 | By: DennisYou know its slow when you see a high-end hardware site (that recently featured the super cool and super expensive GTX Titan) posting a review of a fan, and not just any fan but a desktop fan used to keep you cool while you sweat and slave away downloading pr0n.
Or playing games, I guess you could sweat while doing that too.
The Arctic Breeze is a USB desktop fan that is portable and flexible. The Arctic Breeze’s 92mm fan has a range of 800 up to 1,800 RPM and can be controlled through the built-in knob. A 1.8 meter long USB 2.0 cable is used to power the Arctic Breeze fan and it has a flexible shaft to freely direct the airflow wherever required. Arctic also offers a “Pro” version of the Breeze which has an illuminated knob and doubles as a USB hub. An even more compact version is also available, dubbed the “Arctic Breeze Mobile” which does not come with a tabletop stand. The Arctic Breeze carries a 2-year warranty and is compatible with any device that has a 5V, 0.2A powered USB port.
Throw safety to the wind (<- see what I did there?) and lock up your daughters. There is no fan grill on this product.
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Hardware.Info: Frametime tests for GPUs
Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 | By: DennisThe cult of Scott has claimed another victim!
We published an article about a new way of testing graphics card performance in video games. Traditionally, graphics cards performance has been expressed in frames per second. The assumption has always been, the more fps your graphics card is capable of, the better video games will perform. But is it really that simple? Not quite so, it turns out. To really determine how a graphics card handles a video game, the average fps is not an adequate measure of performance, and you need more detail. Frametime tests provide exactly that.
I'm all for a new way to test video card performance but many technical people forget that non-technical folks are the ones reading your stuff and when things are confusing and/or different they are not likely to listen.
Of course I should heed my own warning but, I'll save that for another time
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GeForce GTX Titan Performance Launch Day - Uber Power
Published: Thursday, February 21, 2013 | By: DennisGeForce Titan is poised to be the most powerful single GPU video card to date with some sweet overclocking controls to boot. I have a vested interest in this card and hope to get a couple for some "internal testing" but until then lets see what other sites have to say.
GeForce GTX Titan Performance Reviews
- HEXUS Review: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB Performance Review @ Hardware Canucks
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6 GB @ techPowerUp
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN SLI & Tri-SLI @ techPowerUp (ohhh Triple!)
Other Cards
- HIS Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition IceQ X 3 GB GDDR5 Review @ Hardware-MagThere should be some HWBot posts as well so stay tuned!
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Sapphire Vapor-X CPU Cooler @ PureOverclock
Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 | By: DennisSapphire is known for their awesome video cards and the Vapor-X name goes hand in hand with top of the line video card cooling. Does that translate to cooling your CPU?
We’re all aware of Sapphire and their Vapor-X technology. They’ve been implementing said Vapor-X technology on video cards since the 3870 with great success. Can the Vapor-X technology be adapted for CPU cooling as well? It sure can…but will it perform the same way it does on their graphics cards? Well lucky for us Sapphire sent us one of their new Vapor-X Universal CPU coolers to test and find out. So without further adieu let’s take a look!
This is a tower style cooler with some neat styling, be sure to check it out!
