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Death Warrant Spam Vikings: Back in the Saddle
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:52 am
by 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)
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:42 am
by kaeolian
stupid question but shouldnt you be running a raid 5 array with that many drives ?
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:55 am
by DW_ToxicWaste
The onboard controller did not support raid 5, so I went with 0+1 which is stripped AND mirrored.
Rich (TW)
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:56 am
by kaeolian
I stand educated thx toxic :blackeye:
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:52 am
by zeus
Sweet box man. Where do you get your rack cases?
Why so much drive space? Just because you can? lol
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:14 am
by 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)
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:31 am
by 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?
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:53 am
by DW_ToxicWaste
Windows 2003 server.
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:56 am
by 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!
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:34 pm
by DW_e_aLpHa
-- All hail Toxic's Latest Creation --! all maginificent and allmighty Piece of Tecnology --
Hail-- :cheers: Hail !! :cheers:
-- But your missing the best part ... !! :albino: :bounce: IS coming TO TEXAS!!!! --
Oh baby!!!! Yeah!!!