I often get questions regarding good ways to stress test home servers, especially new drives. As part of the in-development FreeBSD 8.x based Mesa ZFS Web Interface, sub.mesa has released 0.1.7-preview of the interface with a built-in benchmark that runs for 12+ hours on many systems. Running this a … [Read more...] about Mesa ZFS Web Interface Benchmark/ Stress Test 0.1.7-Preview
Intel Core i5-650 v. Atom N330/ NVIDA ION Review
Intel’s Clarkdale and H55/ H57 platforms are quite intriguing for several reasons. First, the performance is fairly good starting at 2.93ghz, and with hyperthreading, it is possible to get closer to a quad core performance in some tasks where multiple cores do well, such as video encoding. A second … [Read more...] about Intel Core i5-650 v. Atom N330/ NVIDA ION Review