I've been wanting to upgrade my rigged up 2-post telco rack to a real server rack for a while and this week I came across a company that was going out of business and was pretty much giving stuff away, they had several racks available.
$50, including the slide-out keyboard/mouse -
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Here is my rig, small compared to most of you guys -
Picture was taken a couple months ago, 2 more disks were added to fill the 2nd RAID card..
Running Windows Server 2012 R2 (One of only a couple Windows machines left in my network, iSCSI features and storage spaces are really nice)...
Basement Rack, ESXi server is at the bottom -
Dell PowerEdge 2950, 32GB DDR2, 4x 300GB SAS in RAID 5 and 1x 146GB SAS I'm using to clone a couple critical VMs on -
Some of the machines VMware has replaced -
More info on the rack in the Network Pics Thread -...
Here is my basement rack, nothing too crazy, although I do have about 40 IP's in use throughout the house with VM's, Xbox 360's (media extenders) Chromecasts, HTPC, Dropcam, thermostat, laptops, smartphones, Belkin WeMo switches, office upstairs and so on - I recently virtualized more machines...
Yeah... It's a bit embarrassing. In fact (and this will probably get me banned entirely) I'm not a PC gamer at all, so I guess it works for what I use it for. I did get it for free from work, still, it's less than a year old and already the DVD burner has stopped working. So Acer quality...
(very) long time lurker, 3rd or 4th time poster.
We took a few pictures of the house last night, thought I'd share.
I work from home 4 days a week so this is my workstation, 2nd floor office -
Equipment rack in the basement with NAS, small multi-purpose server, switches etc.
I...
I have a couple of those same shelves (or at least they look identical). They have them at Target for around $6.00 pc. for the smaller ones. I seen the square ones there too, not sure how much those ran.
Yeah, Func Industries custom F-Series X-Large with the 30r texture, best mouse pad I've ever owned.
I ordered it from their website, http://www.func.net
I've invested in a couple upgrades over the last month for my setup at home. At my old place I was running 2x 22" monitors, I had my Samsung 2232BW and my newer Dell S2209W. When I moved into my new apartment I decided to use my Samsung LCD as a HDTV in my bedroom, so I was down to a single 22"...
Hey everyone. I'm a long time lurker, just joined not too long ago so I could partake in the discussion. There are a lot of wicked nice setups on here.
I took some pictures of my apartment, I guess I have a couple LCDs scattered about -...