Some Microsoft Storage Spaces Benchmarks

My backup server has a ASRock H370M-ITX/AC motherboard in it and at the time of these benchmarks 3x6TB Seagate Ironwolf SATA disks. I run Veeam and used the SATA disks as my backup repository. My original configuration was 2x6TB Ironwolfs in a RAID0 (using Microsoft Storage Spaces) with Bitlocker enabled. This worked perfectly fine and … Read more

Silencing my Dell T340

Update 2021-01-25: There is now a Part 3 to this project Update 2019-10-24: There is now a Part 2 to this project I recently upgraded my Homelab (the thing that hosts this very blog) from a custom built server to a Dell T340. I have experience with the tower line of Dell servers from work … Read more