In the time since that review, another CES has come and gone and Techgage has posted over 100 additional reviews and editorials. While the R3 has enjoyed almost universal praise from the review community, it’s not the only offering from Fractal Design. It servers all our media to various low power XBMC devices around the house, with a cheap copy of Windows Home Server 2011 it also makes a great machine to backup other PC's in the house.It’s been an entire year since we published our review of the Fractal Design R3. I have one that has 10TB of space at the moment.
Unless you need the CPU power to transcode media I would have a look at the HP ProLiant Micro Server, you can get 5x 3.5" hard drives in there. Got many plans for it at present anyway :) Once my upload speed gets increased later this year i might host a game server on there too. VMware ESXI boots from an internal USB stick and the 1TB drive is used as the data store for the VM's.Īs the motherboard has two gigabit Ethernet ports i might run a VM thats dedicated to been my router in the future. USB Converter: From internal header on motherboard to case front ports Hard drive: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB 2.5?Ĭase: Lian Li PC-Q16 Case (comes with PSU) Ram: 2x Corsair Memory Vengeance Jet Black 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz CAS 9-9-9-24 Processor: Intel CPU Core i7 3770T Quad Core IvyBridge ProcessorĬPU Cooler: Xigmatek Praeton LD964 Heat-Pipe Direct Touch Low Profile Cooling System I can tinker to my hearts content from my main PC.
The basic idea is just to have something i can boot various VM's for testing / learning and not have to pull old PC's out, dualboot and make a mess all the time. I'm using it to learn more about Windows Server and active directory, with the eventual plan been to study for some Microsoft certifications.
I use it as a VMware ESXI Home Server Lab, at the moment its running a Windows Sever 2012 VM, with a couple of client VM's joined to the domain for testing purposes. The second box will be for media serving purposes When I built one, it was when ITX was getting big, but the best case I could find with a good layout was a nice termaltake, but this case you have looks cleaner and compact.
Im hoping to build a second ITX system right his time. Whats the spec of that machine and what do you do with it?
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