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Update 2021-01-25: There is now a Part 3 to this project For those of you who read my Part 1 of this project you’ll remember I said I’d try installing a better CPU heat sink once I had some cash. Well I did and it didn’t work. This post will hopefully save someone 1.5 hours … Read more
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
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
Lets get this right out of the way. This is Part 1 because it failed miserably. I figured I might as well document what I did to help save someone else the trouble. Hopefully Part 2 will be how to do this properly. Alright now that that’s out of the way… I recently received my … Read more