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One of our larger clients recently purchased this rackmount/pedestal server for, well I can't say what it's for, but you can tell by what they bought that they are concerned about storage and they require 64-bit (Linux baby). There was some really new tech in this box, 300GB SATAs 16MB Cache (x8), 64-bit Xeons (EM64T), 4GBs of ECC/Reg DDR2, a very very nice chasis that had a set of 3x 760Watt Redundant Hot Swap Power Supplies. 8-Channel Adaptec controller, a very large capacity sony tape drive, Plextor 712, adn of course the floppy. In the end this computer cost more than my car did, and we aint talking Geo Metro.
Well I have been sitting on these pics for a couple weeks (been too lazy to resize them down). I finally had some free time, so I busted out the camera and here they are. Just post questions if you got'em.
You cant see it, but off camera a puddle of drool had formed from techs walking by and staring.
Alright, as we are in the Case mod section of the forum, we all know how important a good case is...well it doesn't get any better than this (Well it might, but Supermicro doesn't make them any better) 3x 760Watt Redundant/Hot Swap Power Supplies, 8x Hotswap SATA caddies, 6x Hotswap/hot-pluggable fans (needs to be incoporated into some standard case mods me thinks). Overall it is one heavy bastard.
Shot of the removable drive cage which can be rotated depending on if you are using this in a rack or as a std. tower.
2.4TB of storage...lots of MP3s or email huh. 8x 300GB drives, 7 of them in RAID 5 with 1 as a hotspare.
Definitely a thing of beauty. Dual PCIe, Dual Xeon, up to 16GB DDR2...very nice.
Not a very high end Quadro (VCQFX1300), but a nice card none the less. Most of the workstations we put together had PNY 980XGLs.
Dual 3.0GHz 1MB 800FSB 64-bit Xeons (EM64T). Intel 64-bit up close (too bad they don't do 64-bit as well as AMD)...in a couple weeks we should be getting in some of the new 3.8GHz desktop P4s with the 64-bit extensions.
This stuff was pretty hard to get a hold of, I had to cancel two overnight orders from Kingston because they couldn't gurantee they could get it out. In the end one of my vendors came through for me. 4x 1GB Kingston ECC/Reg DDR2.
Alright here are some pics of it during construction, don't have too many as I was focused on the task at hand but you can see it come together
Mobo is mounted
CPU HSF and installed
HD mounting, hotswap bays, SATA backplane, SATA cables (mess)
PNY card & Adaptec RAID installed...look at that lonely PCIe card...it just wants another friend to play with (maybe down the road).
Some finshing pics, things done and mounted and zip tied.
Hope you enjoyed the pics...L8R
Well I have been sitting on these pics for a couple weeks (been too lazy to resize them down). I finally had some free time, so I busted out the camera and here they are. Just post questions if you got'em.
You cant see it, but off camera a puddle of drool had formed from techs walking by and staring.
Alright, as we are in the Case mod section of the forum, we all know how important a good case is...well it doesn't get any better than this (Well it might, but Supermicro doesn't make them any better) 3x 760Watt Redundant/Hot Swap Power Supplies, 8x Hotswap SATA caddies, 6x Hotswap/hot-pluggable fans (needs to be incoporated into some standard case mods me thinks). Overall it is one heavy bastard.
Shot of the removable drive cage which can be rotated depending on if you are using this in a rack or as a std. tower.
2.4TB of storage...lots of MP3s or email huh. 8x 300GB drives, 7 of them in RAID 5 with 1 as a hotspare.
Definitely a thing of beauty. Dual PCIe, Dual Xeon, up to 16GB DDR2...very nice.
Not a very high end Quadro (VCQFX1300), but a nice card none the less. Most of the workstations we put together had PNY 980XGLs.
Dual 3.0GHz 1MB 800FSB 64-bit Xeons (EM64T). Intel 64-bit up close (too bad they don't do 64-bit as well as AMD)...in a couple weeks we should be getting in some of the new 3.8GHz desktop P4s with the 64-bit extensions.
This stuff was pretty hard to get a hold of, I had to cancel two overnight orders from Kingston because they couldn't gurantee they could get it out. In the end one of my vendors came through for me. 4x 1GB Kingston ECC/Reg DDR2.
Alright here are some pics of it during construction, don't have too many as I was focused on the task at hand but you can see it come together
Mobo is mounted
CPU HSF and installed
HD mounting, hotswap bays, SATA backplane, SATA cables (mess)
PNY card & Adaptec RAID installed...look at that lonely PCIe card...it just wants another friend to play with (maybe down the road).
Some finshing pics, things done and mounted and zip tied.
Hope you enjoyed the pics...L8R
