Upgrading my dually (pics)

[agrikk]

I did a full writeup on my website but here's some pics of my upgrade to a Dually MP 2000+ setup:


The goodies shot:

Dually goodness:

Closeup of the HSF(The Speeze FalconRock CPU Cooler Model 5F286B):

The board with processors, ram and HSF installed:

Compaq Smart Array 5304. 64-bit, 66MHz goodness.

One of the few people who use the 64-bit PCI slot at home.

That's one loooooong card:

The finished product:

It's up and running. I just need to reroute the wiring and ribbon cables and otherwise tidy up the box, but 4 U160 drives in RAID-5 on a 64-bit 66MHz RAID card with 128mb cache hauls ass:

The link to my site has bigger pics if yer interested in more detail...


Agrikk

 

[fusionrs]

Looks NICE!

 

[NotSoSimple]

Props for 64-Bit PCI. Mmm that almost makes me want to bust out my old Dually from its box...

 

[Vertigo Acid]

Why would you leave it in a box?!

 

[Uncut_Diamond]

Aaaah yes, very nice, very nice. Me likey SCSI!

 

[xnoto]

where can you purchase the MSI kd7 master MB? i've looked everywhere for it and can't seem to find any thing

 

[FLECOM]

its pretty hard to find actually...

as for the 64bit pci, i use it @ home too

also test your disks with somethig besides sandra.. sandra's disk benchmark is the most utterly worthless crap ever...

 

[xnoto]

any idea where i can order it online? the MB that is

 

[rogue_jedi]

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=msi+k7d&btnG=Search+Froogle

there ya go. ebay is another possibility.

nice looking dually. can i have it?

 

[spikegifted]

Nice box!! Good work also - very neat! Thanks for the pics...

It's kinda similar to my main rig before I upgraded to dual Xeons.

 

[m0unds]

I think I need to excuse myself after seeing that SCSI disk performance... I might have soiled my britches.

 

[SupaFly99]

How much you selling your old dually board for?

 

[kronchev]

you know what? i get 11 megs a second on my harddrives.

i hate you with all my soul



nice job

 

[agrikk]

How much you selling your old dually board for?

I'm asking $175 in this thread.

Agrikk

 

[syztem]

um, go bench your array with something other then sandra, because your numbers seem horribly slow... i average 80mb/sec with hdtach and im on sata raid0 setup.

 

[agrikk]

Does hdtach mind if there is data on the drive? I know that Sandra does.

 

[M4tt]

MSI has the best colored boards

 

[The Lurker]

Run a bench using HDtach.

 

[Ultra Wide]

you need rounded SCSI cables and your're set!

 

[agrikk]

True. I'd round my these ones, but these cables have this wierd weaving to them that makes it hard to seperate each thread.

So I'll keep an eye out for some good rounded ones for cheap.