building servers...

GobblesGobbles Ventura California
edited February 2004 in Hardware
So... you think building 2u 4u 5u and other servers sounds fun do you... after unit 5 or 6 its boring....

:bigggrin:


Gobbles..

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  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited February 2004
    sorry... started a new job on tuesday building servers... boring.. but its more money and closer to home...


    Gobbles...
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2004
    Well servers >4u are at least the size of a typical mid tower (roughly) and with the exception of the huge RAID array cases, the layout isn't much different... Doesn't seem any more boring than building normal computers to me.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    pfff. I'd rather build 4,5,6U than 1Us any day.... I hate those tight cases.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited February 2004
    I would think so 2.
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited February 2004
    we dont do any 1u's but we do have some 2u mostly 4u however and floor units. The rack units go together quickly, the floor units take a few hours to do as I have to run all the power lines neatly and hidden out of site. I use on average 40 zip ties in a floor unit to mount and neaten the power cables. We also do ide raid with 250 gig drives. We use 3ware ide raid controllers, which I have to say kick butt. During the burn in tests which run for 2 days we pull a drive, then put it back in and rebuild the array while its burning in. Promise controllers lock up during this process but the 3ware plug right along.

    They however use P4 3.0 processors.. *cringes and runs and hides from thrax muttering about not having any say in what they use*

    Gobbles
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