Finished my 2 terabyte server, details inside, total cost $4,828
 

This is a dual Pentium4 3.2 cpu
4 Gigs of Ram
4 Fujitsu 300 GIG HD 10,000 RPM
3 Western Digital 250 Gig 7200 RPM
2 Raid 5 Hardware cards
7 Case fans
7 Hard drive bay cooling cases/ dual fan each
FSB800 !!!

This bad boy rocks, pics comming in a few minutes !

Sounds nice. Why not go for the pure 64bit?

Enjoy making them on my own, just wanted to see if I could do it in the begining, now its finally done !

Front of server

some server guts

if its a server why did you opt for p4 over xeon?

also why go for a mixture of SCSI and SATA drives?

gonna buy some 10,000$ hosting with that?????

what brand are those hard drive bays at the top?

Because to make a 2 terrabyte server out of Sata or SCSI youd spend WELL over $20,000. I already checked into it, and my Fijitshu drives are 300 gigs a piece and spin at 10k rpm... They cost $700
Pentium4 3.2 gig is actually FASTER then some of the Xeons out there, dont be misguided by a name.
Read here.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030811/
Especially this line, its about as "non technical as you can get"
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"In the end, the Opteron, with its comparatively low clock speed of 1.8 GHz, managed to put the Xeon with 3.06 GHz in its place for various server applications. "
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"The current Xeon, codenamed "Prestonia," is similar in structure to the Northwood core of the P4 and has additional registers for multiprocessor capabilities. However, the FSB speed has its limits. While the P4 can work optionally with FSB800 (real FSB speed of 200 MHz), the Xeon has a maximum speed of FSB533 (real FSB speed of 133 MHz). This means the bandwidth between the processor and the chipset in the Xeon is significantly limited, compared to the P4 "

2 TB wow


Greets bendox

The white ones house the Fijitsu drives, the colored are the WD drives.
Im assuming you are talking about the fan speed and degree ones, theyre made by SUN , cost around $45 a peice, nothing big, and its pretty sweet to have, can choose from 1 fan or 2 fans, (1 in back and 1 under)

my 42u rack is still better.

You OWN all the servers or do you RENT them and then sell virtual hosting :Graucho
BIG difference

Ill have a special picture for you soon Holly

Interesting server. I'd love to see a load test to determine bottlenecks... that would be interesting.

With raid 5? and 800 fsb ? not gonna happen, going to have 2 drives to do backups and such...

Nice, just curious why no ASUS MB? I had MSI mobo's and they all died within 1,5 year...

Andre

Asus didnt support the Pentium4 cpu's when I started, I dont know if any do now or not, but they didnt then.

Ever notice "Holly" doesnt know when HE is beat?:)

I would have done a couple of things different :

1. Choose for AMD Opteron
2. Choose Tyan motherboard, no way MSI
3. Choose only WD or Seagate drives, a WD Raptor for the OS
4. Double full automatic switching powersupplies

Just what I run myself.

2. Are they Tyan s-1834d still in production? if so , hell yea, 7 pci slots, dual cpu, 6 GIGS of ram onboard? hell yea...
But last I read dept of defense bought the Tyan contract for them.
3. I did alot of study into the Maxtor, Seagate and WD, Seagate had alot of problems from what people said when it came to longevity, WD was doing fine, and I know im taking a gamble on Fujitsu...
4. Getting one I hope someday if i can find a GOOD one

Yes holly, all images were just done in seconds, they arent really mine, just like last night, none of those pics were mine either, yep yep :1orglaugh

ahaha someone looks clueless

She er... HE is very clueless...
Last time GFY cops busted HIM they found he was a kid still living with mommy and daddy on his aol account with a RENTED dedicated server TRYING to do virtual hosting...