Friday, November 7th, 2008
Someone asked me exactly how I configured the fans on my WHS to run really quietly. The previous post on this didn't have sufficient detail so here's some more wiring information.
Tags: Hardware, Windows Home Server
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
So having got my home server up and running I finally got around to getting music streaming off it into my living room with a Logitech Squeezebox Duet.
First off this is not an appliance, it's a science project, albeit a really good one. I spent a happy hour fiddling ...
Tags: Gotchas, Hardware, Squeezebox, Windows Home Server
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
I did some more experimenting with this tonight and it turns out my choice of fans is pretty sub optimal. The principle cause of noise in this system in the CPU cooler and case fan. Getting these fans to run slower when they're not needed is the key to making ...
Tags: Hardware, Windows Home Server
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Which uses more power, the AeroCool Green Home Server or a 40 Watt light bulb? You guessed it, the light bulb looses.
A few hours playing with a Smart-Watt meter hooked up to my home server I came up with some power usage numbers. While idle the Home Server consumes less ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Performance, Windows Home Server
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
So having successfully put together a home server my mind started to wonder to desktop super computing and gravitational modeling. Which is when I came across this... Building home linux render cluster "24 cores that run each at 2.4 Ghz, a total of 48GB ram, and just need 400W ...
Tags: Hardware, High Performance Computing, Performance, Windows Home Server
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Here's the complete list of posts so far on building a Windows Home Server. The server is built with off the shelf low power consumption components and only uses 37W when idle. It's also configured to run near silently under low server loads: Choosing the Hardware - Choosing ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
It works! So the build is complete and I have a working server. Interesting this weekend the system disk in the machine I have downstairs chose to start failing CHKDSK. WHS actually picked up on this and warned me while it was trying to backup. Restoring the disk from ...
Tags: Gotchas, Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
So now the hardware all seems to be working it's time to install Windows Home Server and any associated add-ins. More importantly there are some drivers, BIOS and operating system settings to update in order to get the best performance from your system and reduce it's power consumption. The ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Performance, Windows Home Server
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
So this isn't a blow by blow account of how to build a PC from scratch. I have tried to include any obvious gotchas that caught me out. In general I was very pleasantly surprised by the level of documentation that came with all the bits. On the left you'll ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Last week I finally caved and decided it was time to get serious about backing up the two or three PCs we have scattered around the house. Backups and the desire to stream my digital music to the living room made me think it was time to get some sort ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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