LostBoyz

My brother uses www.powweb.com. Our site is very low traffic, but it is only $10/mo. Not sure if they would suit you.

As someone that is building a home and prepping it for the whole automation thing, I've looked into this a bit. iDevices just seem to be better supported by both the automatin vendors (Crestron, Control4, Savant, linuxmce.org) and 3rd party hardware accessories. For example, I just could not find (before I gave up looking and settled on iDevices at least) a decent wall dock for Android devices. Since there isn't a common form factor for Android devices, hardware accessory vendors don't give the swarm of Android devices much attention. A shame too really, because I loved my original Droid and now my Bionic. However, iDevices are the ones getting the love.

Thanks all I missed counted the # number of fans. Wasn't planning on short counting. I'll double check the IMPI. That was one feature I was looking for in a Supermicro board. ESXi was another. Thanks again

Howdy all. Been reading the board for a while now and am now planning a build. I am going to virtualize unRaid on esxi and also run a few other VMs (DC, DNS, test and devel ...). I don't expect too many services/VMs to be running at all times, just as needed. So this should be an interesting balancing act between HP and power efficieny. Motherboard: Supermicro H8SCM Opteron CPU: Opteron 4122 PSU: Seasonic X-850 or Kingwin LZG-850 (both have 70 A on the single +12 V rail and are 90% rated at 80% load, but the Kingwin is about $60 less) Case: Norco 4224 2x Scythe SY1225SL 120mm fans for Norco Noctua NH-U9D2 CPU cooler 8 GB Hynix RECC memory (verified to work in Mobo) Drives: initially 4x 750 GB drives that I have laying around. Will grow once I get things stable. I know the quad core Opteron is overpowered for unRaid, but there will be other VMs running. Aside from being esxi compatible, I was reading that the Opteron 4122 is relatively low power when idle. Can anyone confirm that? Anyway, any thought on these parts? I'm pricing things out at the moment. Thanks much edit: add urls for components