Server-Showoff

[Smedbakken]

Post your server-setups!

 

[Smedbakken]

Mine: 

 

[tatte]

I don't have pictures (or video), so my reply will be pretty boring. Oh well, it's in a Nexus Clodius White case, so you can imagine that?

 

Asus M4N75TD

AMD Phenom II X4 955BE @ 4GHz

4x2GB Kingston HyperX 1333MHz CL7

Western Digital 1TB Caviar Blue

 

It's mostly for shell, misc game servers and if I wouldn't like to live dangerously, backup. I call it Argeon, it's the fourth iteration of my home server.

 

It all started back in around 2006 or so, with an old Sempron I purchased from my neighbor. I named the server Muhku. It had an odd beige case that had sort of reversed side panels, you had to take off the front panel before you could slide out the sides. Neat detail in retrospect, I had the case up until a month ago. Most of the rest of the parts I still have laying around. CPU fan was and still is fastened with a couple of random screws brutally lodged into the heat sink.

 

For the second iteration, named Miksei, I purchased some brand new parts, Opteron 1210, ASRock GF6150SE, NEXUS NX-3500 and a new generic case with better airflow. I ended up throwing a 8600GT in it and giving it to someone in need, so nothing remains.

 

Third upgrade was mostly old parts from my main rig. Abit IP-35 PRO, 4GB of RAM, probably an Intel E6400 (later E7300) and the cheapest half decent PSU (that's now in the current server). It retained the name it had as the main rig, Ilmarinen. This was the first time I ran Windows on it for relatively long periods, IIRC Terraria was the culprit for that.

 

At this point (Ilmarinen era) I lived in an apartment with a walk in closet with central air exhaust, which was really nice for a server. I added a fire alarm and routed a network cable to finish my personal little data center. Inaudible, out of sight, ventilated. Free. Perfect.

 

Argeon was born as I once again upgraded my main rig, although this time it got a brand new name. Argeon ended two years of horror (Windows). I sold what remained of Ilmarinen (including a 9800GTX+) for twenty euros, I hope it got a good home. That motherboard had two ethernet ports, which combined with the rarity and high price of decent S775 motherboards nowadays, makes me regret getting rid of it a little.

 

For the past six and a half years I have had a 100/100 internet, which definitely makes having a home server pleasant enough.

[Lurick]

Not going to go into too much detail on the big one because I've listed it's specs in the stickied post but for the other two I'll give some more info:

 

 

Top Server:

Name: Oceanus

Purpose: Surevillance

Storage: 3x3TB WD Purple drives

Specs: Intel Core i3 on an x97 board with 16GB of RAM (I got the board for dirt cheap and don't need much power)

Additional:

 

Middle Server:

Name: Orion

Purpose: Storage and Streaming

Specs: See LTT Storage Rankings, Page 61

Additional:

 

Bottom Server:

Name: Dell R610

Purpose: VMs and ESXI server

Specs: Dual Xeon processors with 96GB of RAM

Additional: This is where most of my stuff lives. I have an ISE server, ASAv, Windows Server 2K12 (vCenter), Windows Server 2K8 (AD, DNS, DHCP, etc), and a couple misc VMs for nostalgia games

 

Other:

Below that is a Cisco 3850-48P-E switch with 4x10Gb ports. One to my desktop, one to the big server, and another to the VM server.

I have a few Raspberry Pi's for NTP and other random stuff. Two are rack mounted and can't be seen, the other two are on the wall.

[Emmien]

AMD Duron CPU - 1.4Ghz

1 Core

512MB RAM

 

60GB IDE hard drive

250 watt unbranded power supply.

DVD Rom Drive

 

 

It runs beautifully. I don't need anything more. My website runs great. I am upgrading it soon with an overpowered Pentium 4 PC. I know that I don't need a Pentium 4 for it. I am mainly upgrading because it doesn't have SATA, and it isn't economical to buy manufacturer refurbished IDE drives as backups.

[ProjectBox153]

I'm using a Dell OptiPlex 780 SFF that I got brand new in the box in the summer of 2015. It works well, and has an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, 4GB of DDR3, and a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue 7200RPM. It's running Windows Server 2012 R2. I like it as a server because it is small, quiet, and power efficient. 

[tt2468]

Just built a new 10 gigabit nas out of some skylake parts.

 

The specs:

 

 

The storage: (RAID0 240GB SSD, RAID5 1TB WD Red)

 

SSD Array Read Speeds (SMB over SFP+):

 

SSD Write Speeds:

 

HDD Read Speeds:

 

HDD Write Speeds:

 

I paid somewhere along the lines of $280 for a G4400, 2x4GB sticks of ddr4, an H170M-PLUS, and a 1TB WD Red. I already had the PSU, Case, 2x1TB WD Reds, SFP+ Cards, and 2x240GB Crucial SSDs.

 

For a low power(energy is expensive here) budget NAS, I dont care if I dont get 10Gb/s transfers. Anything over 2 gigabit and I'm happy to pay $300.

[legopc]

22 hours ago, Lurick said:

 

Below that is a Cisco 3850-48P-E switch with 4x10Gb ports. One to my desktop, one to the big server, and another to the VM server.

 

 

Holy crap what nice. How did you get that? Here in europe it will cost an arm and a leg to get one. 

[Lurick]

37 minutes ago, legopc said:

Holy crap what nice. How did you get that? Here in europe it will cost an arm and a leg to get one. 

I work for them and we somehow ended up with a couple extra after ordering a few for a lab build-out and I was allowed to bring one of the extras home We also ordered 4 packs of 10 of the 3802 APs recently by mistake instead of just 4 single APs so I have two of them powering the wireless in my house.

[legopc]

1 hour ago, Lurick said:

I work for them and we somehow ended up with a couple extra after ordering a few for a lab build-out and I was allowed to bring one of the extras home We also ordered 4 packs of 10 of the 3802 APs recently by mistake instead of just 4 single APs so I have two of them powering the wireless in my house.

 

Are you kidding... jerk

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, legopc said:

Are you kidding... jerk

Nope

I mean I don't technically get to keep it or anything if I leave and I definitely can't sell it but it's fun to mess with and have.

[Andster29]

3 hours ago, Lurick said:

I work for them and we somehow ended up with a couple extra after ordering a few for a lab build-out and I was allowed to bring one of the extras home We also ordered 4 packs of 10 of the 3802 APs recently by mistake instead of just 4 single APs so I have two of them powering the wireless in my house.

Wanna share?

[MG2R]

Protip: big-ass thread with pretty much exactly what OP is asking is stickied in this section. A link for your convenience.

[aakopa]

I just posted my server to the LTT Storage Rankings

[Crazy-Logic]

I just brought this 128 cores 3GHz, 256GB of RAM. Not bad for playing around with... Any idea's of things to do with it? 

[gavin.970]

On 1/3/2017 at 9:02 AM, Emmien said:

AMD Duron CPU - 1.4Ghz

1 Core

512MB RAM

 

60GB IDE hard drive

250 watt unbranded power supply.

DVD Rom Drive

 

 

It runs beautifully. I don't need anything more. My website runs great. I am upgrading it soon with an overpowered Pentium 4 PC. I know that I don't need a Pentium 4 for it. I am mainly upgrading because it doesn't have SATA, and it isn't economical to buy manufacturer refurbished IDE drives as backups.

I think of old computers like old shelter dogs, not many want to adopt one or keep one, but they can still get the job done!

[aubryscully]

11 hours ago, Crazy-Logic said:

I just brought this 128 cores 3GHz, 256GB of RAM. Not bad for playing around with... Any idea's of things to do with it? 

I bet this beast could wreck Folding@Home

[Lurick]

11 hours ago, aubryscully said:

I bet this beast could wreck Folding@Home

It can wreck folding@home and a power bill at the same time

[aubryscully]

1 hour ago, Lurick said:

It can wreck folding@home and a power bill at the same time

Forreal. I wonder what kind of power it would draw at full load

[Napalm360]

On 01/06/2017 at 2:44 PM, aubryscully said:

Forreal. I wonder what kind of power it would draw at full load

Please get a server rack soon as possible. It pains me to see that beauty on the floor

 

[harry4742]

On 6.1.2017 at 3:44 PM, aubryscully said:

Forreal. I wonder what kind of power it would draw at full load

The HP version takes up to 7,5 KW under load

[Lurick]

39 minutes ago, harry4742 said:

The HP version takes up to 7,5 KW under load

Sounds about right. Should make a good whole home heater

[Jarsky]

On 1/4/2017 at 5:02 AM, Emmien said:

 

 

I just had a flash back to 2000! I had that case for my desktop at the time (Pentium II) - I believe it was made by Hyena. 

 

[Guest]

On 07/01/2017 at 0:43 AM, Lurick said:

It can wreck folding@home and a power bill at the same time

Yeah I've got a similar problem - got a fully populated IBM blade chassis with I think 14 blades sitting on a pallet that I can't spin up due to the 3 x 15Amp power feeds that it wants. Needs about 7.3KW at full load.

[Lurick]

3 hours ago, Windspeed36 said:

Yeah I've got a similar problem - got a fully populated IBM blade chassis with I think 14 blades sitting on a pallet that I can't spin up due to the 3 x 15Amp power feeds that it wants. Needs about 7.3KW at full load.

Yah, those chassis and blades can draw a lot of power. At work I've got two UCS B-Series chassis loaded with double wide blades and they can definitely eat through power. I tried to use some of the extra power for F@H but for some reason could never get it to work right on a VM (Linux or Windows), it always downloaded a couple work units, chewed through them, and then stopped saying it couldn't communicate with the servers or something even though there aren't any firewall rules blocking it getting in/out of the DMZ environment setup for it.