Recent content by exawatt

The board is good so far I had to use a Supermicro IT firmware to get the LSI controller converted but other than that all was smooth and with out issue. I have several ASRock boards and all have worked flawless. I think the oldest is 4 or 5 years old running 24x7. I haven't measured the...

Suppose I could. I forgot that was there. "http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1847026" I need to get a couple more parts so I can make new power cables and clean it up.

Its really small compared to the 4u supermicro rack chassis it was in.. The board has been great Ive wanted one since they were released.

Ok they have been scaled down..

For those of you that are curious I thought I would share some photos on this case. I probably should have resized the pictures but, I didn't. This is my Server Essentials 2012 R2 build. I am using storage spaces for all of my movies and music and what not. Cables are still a work in progress...

Just use bit locker the only short coming it has in my opinion is that it has to be an entire partition. However its free and works well from my limited testing. Of course with everything it has more abilities with newer versions of windows. You can also get it setup and running with group...

This may be too late but, I figure it may help someone else later.. If the vhd isn't set to fixed you should be able to run the optimize-vhd and it will compact it down to just the space it is actually using. You should be able to use convert-vhd to change the original vhd to dynamic and...

Why not just let AD DNS use the root hints for name lookup? I have never used forwarders. Just let your DC do the work and be done. Also you don't "need" to use windows dhpc although it does make it more secure if you setup dhcp to do all dns registrations on behalf of the clients. The only...

Maybe I am missing something but if it was me and you already have the 2008 standard licensing just upgrade it to server 2012 standard. Once you have that you are allowed to run a physical server with two virtual instances under hyper-v. I would think that would be much easier than dealing...

Also this fan seem to be a good bit quieter than the silverstone fan. Im not sure about when it ramps up however.

Ok got some more photos. Got the fan mounted but I still need to cut some and get a radiator picked. The last one is just to give you reference of size. Its sitting next to my Dell 30".

If small and out of the way is the goal these are nice. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112361 Doesn't get much smaller than that. They come in silver as well.

I just wanted to say cudos to those of you that sleeve your power supply's. I'll never do it again. Anyway I'm hoping to get some more pictures up today.

What he said.

They are not the same. I have never seen this spacing before. its 120mm one direction and 140mm the other.