Testing Update – Timeline, New SSDs, AMD Socket AM3 with USB 3.0 and SATA 3

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I have decided to post a little roadmap of what’s next on the site. I am a list making person, so this will hopefully keep me goal oriented. The next few weeks I will be focusing on some Windows Home Server add-in reviews and guides, some Linux/ OpenSolaris on Hyper-V guides, and some hardware testing. Other potential thoughts I have are to write up how to get decent network performance from a WHS (i.e. over 90MB/s which it seems like there are people who can’t figure this out). I may also move into trying some ESXi virtualization guides, ichill gpu some FreeBSD/ OpenSolaris ZFS guides, and some hardware reviews and benchmarks.huh721010al5200

I also have been purchasing a few new pieces of hardware in the last few days:

  1. Dell PowerConnect 2724 (I am using other PowerConnect 27xx products so this makes life easy)
  2. Another Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad NIC
  3. AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition (may return this weekend)
  4. MSI 890GXM-G65 mATX motherboard (may return this weekend)
  5. Two Intel X25-V 40GB Drives
  6. 8GB of G.Skill DDR3 1600

Guides and Reviews Almost Complete

The below is a list of articles that I am in some stage of writing.

  1. ASoft AutoExit Windows Home Server Add-in Review (this week as I am just finishing it up)
  2. OpenFiler on Hyper-V guide. This was promised awhile ago, I just need to sit and write the guide. (early next week)
  3. An update on the Big Windows Home Server as it has been too long, and it now occupies over 8U of space! (next week)

Possible Next Reviews and Guides

  1. OpenSolaris on Hyper-V
  2. EON Storage on Hyper-V
  3. Intel X25-V in Raid 0
  4. Getting over 90MB/s speeds from a WHS over Gigabit Ethernet.
  5. Norco RPC-4220 v. RPC-4020 review
  6. Build your own Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
  7. USB 3.0 enclosures
  8. Other WHS Add-in reviews

Please feel free to leave a comment if there is something you would specifically like to see. I will probably set up a new test box or two this weekend so any input will help me decide how and what to build.