Workstations are far more interesting 😀

http://www.overclock.net/t/1445065/got-this-f … the-recycle-bin

There is the first, too many photos to post in here.

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As promised I took some pics. I took them with a Sony Mavica that uses floppy disks.

Asus PC-DL

Dual Xeon (Pentium 4s [will update when get a chance to run CPU-Z]) {400mhz bus}

3gb DDR1 (mixed speeds)

80 gb? IDE os drive

400GB IDE game server drive.

Windows Server 2008 R1

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I still use it atm for doge mining along with my other machines.

Built this back in 2007.

No changes except for hard drives (9 4TB), 16GB of memory and swapped out the desktop graphics card for a fanless ati card.
Motherboard is Gigabyte
Processor is Core 2 Quad (sorry not a P4!) Don't think plex will transcode blue-ray mkv with a P4. heh.

OS is FreeNAS loaded on a USB stick.
Filesystem is ZFS in RAIDZ2

I like it but I've run out of expansion so thinking about building something bigger. I'mm worried about noise tho.

IBM X3500 (x2)
IBM X3400
Dell Poweredge 2600
HP ML110

They are collecting dust right now, but I have plans (of course 😐 ) to use my IBM as a central server for all my movies, games, photos, workfiles, music, etc. and have a hardwired network.
I have many 15k SCSI drives and extra power supplies as well, and with three IBM servers, I won't have any problem with redundancy.
Got them all free (given to me from a business that upgraded their system)...they are all in great shape and solid as a rock.

I'll be getting rid of the HP and Dell soon, unless someone can give me a good idea of how I can use them...and please don't say "printer server" 🤣 .

I *had* 2 dual Coppermine servers/workstations but I took them apart and now the parts are all over the place. They came with SCSI drives and as I don't like noisy systems, I wanted to remove them and then I thought "well I'll remove the PSU's also so I can clean them" and I went from there 🤣

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Built this back in 2007.

No changes except for hard drives (9 4TB), 16GB of memory and swapped out the desktop graphics card for a fanless ati card.
Motherboard is Gigabyte
Processor is Core 2 Quad (sorry not a P4!) Don't think plex will transcode blue-ray mkv with a P4. heh.

OS is FreeNAS loaded on a USB stick.
Filesystem is ZFS in RAIDZ2

I like it but I've run out of expansion so thinking about building something bigger. I'mm worried about noise tho.

I could care less really if it's not a P4.

I have two Dell Poweredge 2800 servers with several SCSI hard drives that are wiped. I tried to put either Win2k or WinXP on them but don't know what to do when prompted to hit F6 install 3rd party SCSI drivers at the OS install screen. They also have weak CD-ROM drives and one floppy drive each. Linux will not install on either one. They are just boat anchors for now until I figure out the SCSI part.

You can cheat and let Dell setup the SCSI for you.
Looking at the PowerEdge 2800 site I think this is what you need
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/ … N&categoryId=SM

It still lets you do a clean install its not like a PC restore CD that installs loads of crap.

The site seems to have SCSI controller drivers as well but this is a real pain. you can always google hot to make a F6 floppy but it still doesn't always play nice. slipstreaming the drivers using something like nlite is a better option

Thanks, I had not thought of that. I will try this when I can get away from work.

Here's my server, made of some not very server-oriented components:

Pentium M 745 @ 2.4GHz, 2MB
MSI Speedster i915 based mainboard
2GB DDR2-533, CL3, dual-channel
Antec 300 case, Enermax Liberty 400 PSU.
Radeon X600SE driving a crappy old LG 17" TFT
11.25TB of storage: Two 4TB Baracuda XTs, a 2TB WD, a 750GB Seagate IDE, and a 500GB Seagate IDE.

Putting this little beast together.

Supermicro H8QME-2
Seasonic S12G 750W
4x Opteron 8431 @ 2.4Ghz
16GB DDR2-667 ECC
WD Raptor 75GB - Temporary OS drive
OS: Debian 7.3

Currently this is folding, but it will also handle media streaming, storage/backup and will host mumble and a few game servers (L4D2/L4D1 etc.).

This will be going into a modified HAF932. Will be grabbing a cheap 64 or 128GB SSD for the OS. Storage will come later, have not yet decided on what these drives will be, most likely WD 3TB Blacks, probably five of them.

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Putting this little beast together.

Supermicro H8QME-2
Seasonic S12G 750W
4x Opteron 8431 @ 2.4Ghz
16GB DDR2-667 ECC
WD Raptor 75GB - Temporary OS drive
OS: Debian 7.3

Currently this is folding, but it will also handle media streaming, storage/backup and will host mumble and a few game servers (L4D2/L4D1 etc.).

This will be going into a modified HAF932. Will be grabbing a cheap 64 or 128GB SSD for the OS. Storage will come later, have not yet decided on what these drives will be, most likely WD 3TB Blacks, probably five of them.

That is just beatiful! 24 cores in a single system! Must consume a lot of power!

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That is just beatiful! 24 cores in a single system! Must consume a lot of power!

Currently consumes about as much as my desktop does while under load. I don't have a kill-a-watt to get an actual number but it's probably gonna be around 350-400W under load.

I don't actually have this thing online but it is fully functional. I bought it for $25 from a data center I worked at once when it was retired from service after nearly 8 years of 24-7 service, go dell! Anyway.. piccies.

PowerEdge 6400, dell's 7-u Pentium-III Beast, with 10 hotswap scsi bays.

Currently populated with 4 x Pentium-III Xeon @ 700 Mhz. Yes those are the chips with the 2MB cache on them. It supports up to 4 x 900 Mhz Xeons, but I think those are like 128 KB or 256 KB cache, so I might not ever replace these.

All those ram slots. Yes, it actually does run dual channel with PC-133 ram. 16 total ram slots, and it uses PC-133-ECC-REG. It -could- support up to a total of 16 x 1GB (16 GB) ram but it would have to run via PAE so.. not sure what the point would be. I have it mixed-and-matched with enough to come up with 2GB right now.

Expansion card area. What I didn't show in this shot is there are two green-colored 133 Mhz PCI-X slots down bottom, the raid card is occupying one, there's another below it. I have the original PERC 2 replaced with a later model adaptec 2120S that's lower profile, and jury rigged a heatsink to it, the original PERC 2 the battery died and I just went with this instead of finding a replacement, since it's not run 24-7. I added my own fan to the expansion card area, some of these cards get toasty. At one point I had about 8 scsi-160 drives in this thing in raid-0, in the PCI-X slot, and had a PCI-X gigabit NIC in the other PCI-X slot, and it was capable of sustaining a full 110 - 125 MB/sec reads and writes over the network at 99% gigabit utilization. So.. I could use it for a server if I wanted to, but right now I don't need to.

The 900mhz Xeons are 2MB only. If that rig takes 2.8v stuff, you're gonna have a real hard time finding 8 to plop in that machine.

I think that machine might be 5/12 volt tho. I'm actually trying to get a pair of 900mhz 2MB Xeons for my XG-DLS sig rig.

m1919 wrote:

The 900mhz Xeons are 2MB only. If that rig takes 2.8v stuff, you're gonna have a real hard time finding 8 to plop in that machine.

I think that machine might be 5/12 volt tho. I'm actually trying to get a pair of 900mhz 2MB Xeons for my XG-DLS sig rig.

I looked it up again, sure enough, there are 2MB Slot-2 xeons @ 900 Mhz, both for 2.8v and 5v/12v, interesting. Now you have me looking for them for sale somewhere 😀

Well I'm not satisfied with store-bought routers. So I made my own from an XG-DLS!

images:
http://imgur.com/a/5DrX8

Specs:
Asus XG-DLS
2gb pc133 sdram
2gb CF-card
2x 900/2m/100 2.8v xeons
2x gigabit ethernet cards
Smoothwall 3.0

My file server is a 2x 3.8ghz 604 xeon setup
my minecraft server is a dual 771 xeon stuffed into a uATX case

if anyone cares, i'll post pictures.

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Well I'm not satisfied with store-bought routers. So I made my own from an XG-DLS!

images:
http://imgur.com/a/5DrX8

Specs:
Asus XG-DLS
2gb pc133 sdram
2gb CF-card
2x 900/2m/100 2.8v xeons
2x gigabit ethernet cards
Smoothwall 3.0

My file server is a 2x 3.8ghz 604 xeon setup
my minecraft server is a dual 771 xeon stuffed into a uATX case

if anyone cares, i'll post pictures.

Let's see them. 😁

m1919 wrote:

The 900mhz Xeons are 2MB only. If that rig takes 2.8v stuff, you're gonna have a real hard time finding 8 to plop in that machine.

I think that machine might be 5/12 volt tho. I'm actually trying to get a pair of 900mhz 2MB Xeons for my XG-DLS sig rig.

I don't see any VRMs on the motherboard, so they are probably 5/12V ones.