Notice - Migrated from legacy site - some formatting may be incorrect. In my time labbing, I’ve been fortunate to find cracking deals on the compute and network components of my lab, but never had to address storage hosts, until now. This blog post documents the parts, problems and events of the build of my first …

Notice - Migrated from legacy site - some formatting may be incorrect. A few weeks ago, I was writing up a report for my university course, on some testing that I was doing surrounding efficiency of computer systems. It was focused on what varying the cores enabled and hyperthreading did to the efficiency of the …

Notice - Migrated from legacy site - some formatting may be incorrect. In my lab I have a Dell R210ii server that currently being used as a storage head. In its current role, it is staying on nearby to me, running 24/7, so the noise that its kicking out is starting to be more of a concern to me. I therefore went about …