Pictures Of Your Dually Rigs!

The Fujitsu, the Dell's crank it up when all the memory slots are filled and the DLs are just huge amounts of white noise. They're all drowned out by my EMC fibre shelves though. Those things have some screamers in them.
 
D-EJ915 said:
The Fujitsu, the Dell's crank it up when all the memory slots are filled and the DLs are just huge amounts of white noise. They're all drowned out by my EMC fibre shelves though. Those things have some screamers in them.
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Yeah i have a movie of themin my EMC training class from January :) when they are running it's like jet's..
 
I had a lab that I ran while at EMC.
You almost had to wear ear plugs going into that tiny datacenter...

2 cabinets completely full of 15k drives moves a lot of air, and more noise
 
XXshadowwaterXX said:
this is very sad do you guys really think xeons are gaming cpus?
just go with an i5 setup and you will get twice the power as 2 xeons
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XXshadowwaterXX said:
seeing that the liquid cooled system above has a 3way sli configuration i know he is not using that for mining its a gaming rig and with the money he spent on the xeons he would be getting better performance with an i5 but if u look at the computer above that one you can tell it is being used as a server witch is what xeons are made for.
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lol oh lawd!!!


anyway- heres my new dually

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it's a Dual Xeon L5630 with 6GB ram (ATM ;) )

I also have a Dual Sossaman with an Intel board but i've misplaced the photo of that for now.
 
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Here is my 4P system:

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XXshadowwaterXX said:
this is very sad do you guys really think xeons are gaming cpus?
just go with an i5 setup and you will get twice the power as 2 xeons
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Yes we do, I have a dual hex core xeon rig that I use every day, mainly for gaming, It might only be 2.4Ghz but i don't get lagging frame rates etc - I can even continue to fold whilst gaming. My chips are just lower clocked gulftown's with extra feature's how would they not be able to run as gaming rig's?
 
You need an HBA which has removable SFPs but other than that yeah just directly attached and I enabled initiator mode on the HBA.
 
D-EJ915 said:
You need an HBA which has removable SFPs but other than that yeah just directly attached and I enabled initiator mode on the HBA.
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how loud are those hp's

whats the specs of those beasts :)

we need pics of inside too :)
 
D-EJ915 said:
You need an HBA which has removable SFPs but other than that yeah just directly attached and I enabled initiator mode on the HBA.
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And they just present 15 x LU's to the host I am guessing?
No actual smarts / controller ?
 
dashpuppy said:
how loud are those hp's

whats the specs of those beasts :)

we need pics of inside too :)
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Specs are 4x8218, 8x 1gb, 2x72gb on the bottom one. 4x8421HE, 16x 1GB, 2x72GB, 2x300GB on the top one. Haven't put any more of my memory sticks into them yet from my pile on my desk.


Power cut on->power supplies spin up->system power-on.
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I was surprised when I saw the USB port internally since the quickspecs don't mention it.
 
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I can't remember if I've posted this before but here's a picture of my old-as-the-sun database cluster lab. This is my own personal gear copped when one of my prior gigs did a hardware refresh. Each pizza box is dual-xeon.

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6x IBM x336 servers (2x U320 SCSI HD in RAID-1, 2x 3GHz Xeon, 4GB RAM, Emulex LP-9002L HBA)
HP MSA1000 (14x72GB U320 SCSI HD, 2x 6-port FC switches, 256MB cache)
HP MSA30 (14x72GB U320 SCSI HD)

This lives in the colo of my current place of work, because running 10,020 watts of power supply gets really, really expensive at home. :D
 
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agrikk said:
I can't remember if I've posted this before but here's a picture of my old-as-the-sun database cluster lab. This is my own personal gear copped when one of my prior gigs did a hardware refresh. Each pizza box is dual-xeon.



6x IBM x336 servers (2x U320 SCSI HD in RAID-1, 2x 3GHz Xeon, 4GB RAM, Emulex LP-9002L HBA)
HP MSA1000 (14x72GB U320 SCSI HD, 2x 6-port FC switches, 256MB cache)
HP MSA30 (14x72GB U320 SCSI HD)

This lives in the colo of my current place of work, because running 10,020 watts of power supply gets really, really expensive at home. :D
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with all those x336's i bet you can consolidate them into ONE!
 
Still nice to have more than one physical box, there are some things you can't do with just one box :)
 
D-EJ915 said:
Still nice to have more than one physical box, there are some things you can't do with just one box :)
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Very true :) sometimes i still wish i waited and bout 2 x r210 II's and stuffed them :) but oh well..


Dash.

edit, come to think about it, i should post a picture of inside the R415 as it has 2 quad core amd's :)


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So clean, should see the setups my school has, I think they put the wires everywhere just to mess with us, I should point them to this thread. They could use some learning
 
My toy home server (specs in sig) in a craptacular half-finished-mod case.

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Has been running fine to this point, but last night there was a loud bang :confused:
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Capacitor's blown :mad:
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A replacement should be on the way soon - a Tyan K8SR.
 
Concentric,

A board or new cap ?

If you are ditching the old board can i have ? I'll fix the bad cap :)
 
dashpuppy said:
Concentric,

A board or new cap ?

If you are ditching the old board can i have ? I'll fix the bad cap :)
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New board. Well, I'm hopefully going to pick up the Tyan for pretty cheap and if it all tests out OK then I think I'd make the switch. We'll see what happens and if it looks like I'll no longer be using the Gigabyte then I'll PM you. I'm in the UK so might be a bit of postage to negotiate?

I know that a popped capacitor can simply be replaced but I'm not that great at soldering and I can't be bothered trying to find the appropriate one to use.

By the way, the system was still perfectly operational after it went pop, which I was a bit surprised at. I'm guessing whatever circuit that capacitor belonged to wasn't something important or wasn't being used by the system at that point?
 
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Dual processor gaming glory. I'm not one for cases, so it runs naked.
Could use a couple more GPU's, too.
 
Dualing Duallies, My primary a dual Xeon 2.4 on a Tyan S2668:
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Backup box, a dual AMD MP 2400 on a Tyan S2468:
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Both running for years...obviously.

Both are going to be replaced with low power iSCSI boot quad core Xeon E3s on mITX boards soon, along with a 3rd E3 NAS/SAN. All three will draw less power then either one of these machines. Will be my first single socket workstation since 1997. Looking forward to twice the cores, 4 times the disk, 8 times the RAM, 16 times the cache, and silence.

With a German Shepherd in the house I should have named these machines Hoover and Dyson.
 
I like your choice of cases, but man, you need to clean those...
 
Yikes, that's pretty gross. That's just nasty...
I have a Tyan Tiger E7505 that doesn't look anything like that and it's old.
 
Dirty, well yea, top machine has been running for 10 years the bottom one has been running for 9 years, 24/7, with about 100CFM of air going through each of them. So lets see, between them that's around 3 billion liters of air have passed through them over their life span which is about the amount of air that passes through a Bugatti Veyron going 250 miles per hour for a month and a half continuously, which by the way would put about a quarter of a million miles on the Bugatti and it would have gone through 12,000 sets of tires at that speed. :eek:

Given that the Chieftech/Antec cases suck air from bottom front to top rear these machines have been busy sucking all the dirt off the floor for a decade. The replacement mITX boxes will be mounted 2 feet above the floor to the bottom of my desks to reduce the Hoover effect.
 
skorpio said:
Dirty, well yea, top machine has been running for 10 years the bottom one has been running for 9 years, 24/7, with about 100CFM of air going through each of them. So lets see, between them that's around 3 billion liters of air have passed through them over their life span which is about the amount of air that passes through a Bugatti Veyron going 250 miles per hour for a month and a half continuously, which by the way would put about a quarter of a million miles on the Bugatti and it would have gone through 12,000 sets of tires at that speed. :eek:

Given that the Chieftech/Antec cases suck air from bottom front to top rear these machines have been busy sucking all the dirt off the floor for a decade. The replacement mITX boxes will be mounted 2 feet above the floor to the bottom of my desks to reduce the Hoover effect.
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So what's so hard to spray them out with air ? These pics just show that your a a slob or b don't care. You invested good $$ why wouldent you atleast care for the machines..

I have a amd 400mhz with 512 MBA ram in a case just like that and it's way cleaner than yours.
 
Honestly that's not all that bad, I have seen worse while working on other peoples computers, First thing I do so when they tell me its running slow is to see if its overheating from dust and hair.
 
exelias0 said:
What is that gargantuan of a SATA card :O
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Promise TX2300 RAID Cards, remember these were built in 2002 and 2003 all the parts wern't new then. ATI X1550 cards were added a couple years after that when they went triple head (originally dual headed with Matrox G450s). Dual GigE cards added to the systems 2 years ago.
 
mannyman said:
Honestly that's not all that bad, I have seen worse while working on other peoples computers, First thing I do so when they tell me its running slow is to see if its overheating from dust and hair.
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No they're not that bad I've seen machines dirtier than mine in spotless data centers. Workstations around newspaper printing presses or bank check processing areas get dirtier than mine in a week.
 
Update: The Tyan K8SR is in and working (horray!), although OpenIndiana doesn't seem to like being transplanted from one setup to the other :(
I can easily import my old pool and continue almost as if nothing happened, except that having reinstalled the OS the users, groups, password setup etc will need to be re-done. I've gone through this before so I have all the commands written down. :rolleyes:

Also, I might get some more RAM :cool: Only one 2GB stick for each CPU at the moment, so I think I'll at least make it two (for a total of 8GB).

Pics!
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The cooler clamps are touching - a close fit!
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White 80mm fans because they're the only ones I have to hand with 3-pin plugs. If I ever start caring more about the aesthetics then I'll get some black ones.
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The LSI SAS3080X-R HBAs each support 8 drives. I'm only using the top one at the moment because I only have a 3-drive RAIDZ, but the other one is ready to be flashed and used in the second PCI-X slot in future.
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