Post Your Servers v3: Holy Motherload of Knowledge
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I have a generally good idea on how to do this. I've already had to do it with some Silicon Graphics machines which were not rackable at all.
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just got some new ram (12 x 8GB sticks, ~135 USD)
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all my computer garbage
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woop ( up from 6 x 4GB)
The r710 is pretty sweet.
Do you have the 2.5" or the 3.5" model? I have the 2.5" and I'm regretting it (2.5" drives are expensive). Need to figure out a cheaper storage solution (not sure if I want to pick up a DAS or a NAS)
[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;50659614]The r710 is pretty sweet.
Do you have the 2.5" or the 3.5" model? I have the 2.5" and I'm regretting it (2.5" drives are expensive). Need to figure out a cheaper storage solution (not sure if I want to pick up a DAS or a NAS)[/QUOTE]
2.5 and I'm also kinda regretting it as well.
The WD Black 1TB 2.5 drive is only +$10 to the 3.5 so with all things considered it's not that bad.
[URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W04A06940[/URL]
That and if you need better storage capabilities a DAS/NAS setup should be relatively simple to do. This one looks nice ( [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1PC48M1432&cm_re=DAS-_-16-111-203-_-Product[/URL] )
[QUOTE=Michael haxz;50659747]2.5 and I'm also kinda regretting it as well.
The WD Black 1TB 2.5 drive is only +$10 to the 3.5 so with all things considered it's not that bad.
[URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W04A06940[/URL]
That and if you need better storage capabilities a DAS/NAS setup should be relatively simple to do. This one looks nice ( [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1PC48M1432&cm_re=DAS-_-16-111-203-_-Product[/URL] )[/QUOTE]
you can get some seriously cheap harddrives on ebay
[url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/White-Label-2TB-64MB-Cache-7200RPM-SATA-II-Desktop-3-5-Hard-Drive-/110520858255?hash=item19bb8e768f:g:VEgAAMXQXZZReJky[/url]
for a DAS I was thinking about a sa120 (pick up a hba and virtualize freenas)
for a NAS I was thinking about getting an r510 (12 bay version)
Just picked up this baby from CeX on the way home today as an impulse buy. £98 and has a Celeron J1900,120GB SSD, 4GB DDR3 RAM, Gigabit ethernet, on-board WiFi, USB3, HDMI and is silent and uses barely any power.
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Just put Ubuntu Core server on it and currently installing a few self-hosted apps using Docker and Shipyard. Added an external USB3 HDD I have to use for storing media.
Mmm if that had 2 gigabit ports or a half height expansion slot I would buy that in a second as a pfsense box.
[QUOTE=Levelog;50675979]Mmm if that had 2 gigabit ports or a half height expansion slot I would buy that in a second as a pfsense box.[/QUOTE]
Just slap a USB NIC on it?
[QUOTE=Levelog;50675979]Mmm if that had 2 gigabit ports or a half height expansion slot I would buy that in a second as a pfsense box.[/QUOTE]
You could probably swap out the wifi card for an Ethernet card, I think MiniPCIe Ethernet is a thing.
Though I've seen dual / quad port Celeron PCs all over aliexpress, so buying the card would be more effort than just getting one of those boxes anyway.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;50676012]Just slap a USB NIC on it?[/QUOTE]
I'd rather not worry about a USB NIC on a BSD based OS that's handling all my network if I can help it.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;50676012]Just slap a USB NIC on it?[/QUOTE]
yay USB overhead...
I feel dirty
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Way back when I built my new desktop, I decided to re-purpose my old one as a server.
Have a screenfetch
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Grafana is sooo nice.
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New VPS. I've got owncloud on it and xmpp and both are running very well, the arch wiki hasn't been as good for server stuff as it is for desktop stuff, but my general familiarity with arch helped a lot compared to something like centOS. I might try out pydio and seafile in docker though to see if either are a bit better than owncloud, because while it's nice, there's just certain small things that annoy me a lot. Generally when it comes to publicly sharing things. Though I could also just serve straight https when I link things to others, because the syncing at least works pretty well.
Not sure what else I'll do with it, perhaps a voice server I can spin up whenever, or a game server. Excuse the username because I couldn't come up with anything else
Only Have pictures of my servers in Melbourne, Australia. Note: had to scrub the Ip's off the pictures that's why they are messed up.
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Umm I didn't want to break facepunch so you have to click links :)
you can do to [thumb] make them small
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;50691244]you can do to [thumb] make them small[/QUOTE]
[t] is the best
but I still see [img_thumb] these days and :v:
[QUOTE=Scratch.;50694039][t] is the best
but I still see [img_thumb] these days and :v:[/QUOTE]
When I first started facepunching I used img_thumb but then I discovered the light of t.
Not a fan of lenovo servers myself, but i thought this was a pretty decent deal
[url]https://computers.woot.com/offers/lenovo-rs140-intel-xeon-3-4ghz-rackmount-server?ref=w_cnt_gw_zlm_bs_18[/url]
Fun at Cisco Live, figured you guys might want something to drool over:
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Accidentally a VPS.
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Will be replacing a 1 GiB micro and 1 GiB micro DB server on AWS free tier. Plus with additional room to do other things I guess.
SSD Nodes $48 / year with [URL="https://lowendbox.com/blog/ssdnodes-openvz-ssd-vps-starting-at-30year-dallas-tx-montreal-ca/#more-8805"]this deal[/URL].
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50705372]Too small for me :(
Like I really need at least 80GB storage.[/QUOTE]
Have you seen this?
[url]https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/block-storage-more-space-to-scale/[/url]
Does anyone know how loud a Dell MD1200 would be? Right now I'm looking at getting an Intel Avaton board and a Silverstone DS380B to build an 8 bay FreeNAS. However, at work we have what I think is a Dell MD1200 that isn't being used, so If I could get that for a reasonable price I may just throw a cheap server board in a MiniITX case and attach the big-ass DAS. Though if it sounds like a jet engine 24/7, I think I'll just stick to the original plan of building something.
No experience with that one in particular, but I haven't seen any rackmount servers that [I]aren't[/I] jet engines.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;50722885]No experience with that one in particular, but I haven't seen any rackmount servers that [I]aren't[/I] jet engines.[/QUOTE]
That's the tricky part, it's not [I]really[/I] a server, it's a box full of HDDs and a couple SAS cards. I guess I'll have to try plugging it into power next week.
By the way, not sure about prices, but you're probably better off with a Xeon-D (or ULV Broadwell/Skylake Core i) than an Avoton.
[editline]16th July 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=benjgvps;50722932]That's the tricky part, it's not [I]really[/I] a server, it's a box full of HDDs and a couple SAS cards. I guess I'll have to try plugging it into power next week.[/QUOTE]
Of course it's not gonna have CPU fans, but in rackmount hardware, even the PSU fans are loud.
Just googled MD1200 fans and yup:
[url]http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2415257[/url]
[url]http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/storage/f/1216/t/19612217[/url]
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;50722943]By the way, not sure about prices, but you're probably better off with a Xeon-D (or ULV Broadwell/Skylake Core i) than an Avoton.
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Of course it's not gonna have CPU fans, but in rackmount hardware, even the PSU fans are loud.
Just googled MD1200 fans and yup:
[url]http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2415257[/url]
[url]http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/storage/f/1216/t/19612217[/url][/QUOTE]
The main reason I was looking at the Avaton boards was because of the number of SATA connections, there's 12 of them. I suppose I could get a SATA HBA or something with a shitload of SATA ports on it.
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