Death Warrant Spam Vikings: Back in the Saddle

[DW_ToxicWaste]

This ladies and gentlemen, this is my greatest creation!

Arise, arise!
Dual Opteron 256 (3GHz), 2GB PC3200, 4x160GB enterprise SATA drives in RAID 0+1 configuration.

This, coupled with the fine network in Dallas should provide an adequate gaming experience.

It's on a plane as we speak. Look for it in a few days.

Rich (TW)

[kaeolian]

stupid question but shouldnt you be running a raid 5 array with that many drives ?

[DW_ToxicWaste]

The onboard controller did not support raid 5, so I went with 0+1 which is stripped AND mirrored.

Rich (TW)

[kaeolian]

I stand educated thx toxic :blackeye:

[zeus]

Sweet box man. Where do you get your rack cases?

Why so much drive space? Just because you can? lol

[DW_ToxicWaste]

Pretty much.

WD produces enterprise class SATA drives which are designed for 80% duty and 1.2 million hours MTBF. They do not produce them in anything smaller than 160GB.

I did not want to go through the expense of buying Raptors for this build. These drives cost 1/3 of the price of a raptor for equivalent size.

I get most of my rack mounts on Ebay. This one happened to be a Tyan Barebones which I upgraded, but I usually buy the case, and build my own.

Rich (TW)

[zeus]

Sweet...

These days it is hard to find small hard drives. It is just not worth it.

I was looking this weekend for some boxes to sell as a firewall solution. Obviously, hard drives are not a huge part of that. But, you might as well buy big because it is more expensive to buy small.

Do you guys run Windows or Linux on the server side?

[DW_ToxicWaste]

Windows 2003 server.

[DW_Wraith]

Cool beans! That hardware looks so purty.... so much shiny copper inside.... :compress:

Remember years ago when copper was so expensive and people would steal wiring and anything else not nailed down that was made of copper... I can only imagine how much they would be drooling to have that box!

[DW_e_aLpHa]

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