Stig's New Server
 

First . . .The Specs

TOP THIS!

**Dual 2.8 GHz Intel XEON Processors
**7 SCSI UltraWide 320 Bays, Hot Removable
**Adaptec AIC-7902 UltraWide 300 GigaFlop Controller
**2 Drives Installed . . . 15,000 RPM SCSI 37GB Drives
**2 GigaBit Ethernet Ports (10/100/1000)
**4032MBs of SD DDR2 RAM (Server Cooling Sinks Installed)

Yeah . . . it's bad ass . . .

And how much did I pay for this monster?!?!?!

4000?

2000?

1000?

500?


NOPE!

$50.42 cents . . . . .as head of IT for Apto Solutions . . . . I get my connections where I can get em ^_^

Now . . . .the pictures

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-Stig

$50?

i payed more for a 1gig stick for my pc.

^_^

Yeah, admittedly, I should have spent a whole heck of a lot more on this behemoth, but I am very happy that I was able to walk away with her (well, drive away, that thing weighs a metric TONNE) for that price.

The only thing I don't like is the fact that all of the buses are PCI-X soooo, yeah, it's difficult to find anything under 300 bucks that will work on those slots, gig Ethernet, ultra-stupid-video crazy graphics processors and that's about it . . .due to the architecture of PCI-X, sound cards haven't been developed for it.

i not a fan of pci express either.
it's getting kind of hard to find some pci parts too. so that means everything will be pci x soon.

I WISH it were PCI express . . . that'd make life a lot easier . . . PCI-X is a lot like PCI but it has an additional channel bracket and setting that make the cards very proprietary soooo . . . yeah :(

Sucks a little . . .here's the wiki on it . . . .*sigh* I'm trying to see if I can find a PCI-X to PCI-e or PCI adapter . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X


-Stig

My god dude you stole that thing. You should host HL2 Deathmatch.

my bad i was under the impression pci e and pci x were the same. i deal with pci so anything newer is foreign to me.

no rack mount no care!

just kidding. dope system. at my last job we used a similar setup for password cracking. i can't remember the specs off hand. low hd space, but i think 4 gigs of memory. dual xeon's. i think we may of been running a 8 gig solid state drive. i have an older scsi setup on my old pc. i think. pci 64 bit dual channel ultra 160 controller with 64 meg cache on the controller. it ran only 2 16 gig drives stripped. what a waste of a card. :(

i just built a new system yesterday with a buddy of mine. it's the first time in 10 years a system of mine didn't have scsi and an all in wonder video card. this one is also the most stable too. :p

I'm actually liking the stability of the Ultra 320 setup, it's extremely fast (currently the fastest on the market) and it was definitely a price drop, LMAO!

If it's any consolation, this WAS a rackmount (4U) setup it's just an upright when you remove the rails . . .I still have them if it'll increase my geekdom, LMAO! :p

-Stig

good stuff. still not bigger than my ............. yea.. nice system bro

LMAO! I'm willing to bet this is just slightly larger at the corners ^_^

HAHAHAHAHA!

-Stig