Raise of hands, do anyone if you have a daily driver that contains server-class technology?

[maxtch]

No I am not talking about using that all popular Xeon E3-1231v3 on B85. You used one server-grade component but it is still a consumer grade machine overall. I am talking about actual high reliability or HPC stuff, like:

 

• Multiple processor sockets,
• ECC memory,
• LOTS of memory beyond the capabilities of consumer-grade chips (128GB or more,)
• Hardware RAID with hot-swappable drives,
• SCSI, SAS, Fiber Channel,
• Infiniband, 10Gbps or higher Ethernet, exotic network arrangements like aggregated links or VLAN,
• Battery backup and UPS on desktop systems,

Workstations with those technologies count too. Those are just server-grade machines with someone manning it. Two out of five of my systems fulfill this criteria, but it does not include my daily drivers. You guys?

[shadowbyte]

@Jacktastic-Mofo

[Atmos]

My workstation, which I don't even get to really use anymore has a dual socket. But I wouldn't necessarily call it a server class board, more of a, well workstation board.

[maxtch]

3 minutes ago, Atmos said:

My workstation, which I don't even get to really use anymore has a dual socket. But I wouldn't necessarily call it a server class board, more of a, well workstation board.

That counts as server-grade hardware.

[KuJoe]

My server is basically my daily driver. It runs a Windows 10 VM for me.

[Eaglerino]

Yes, a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

[maxtch]

1 minute ago, KuJoe said:

My server is basically my daily driver. It runs a Windows 10 VM for me.

Detailed specs?

[vrod]

Got a couple of dual socket E5 v1 setups running my vmware lab. For my home server i just run a single E5 v2 cpu. 6 wd red nas drives, 8 dc s3700 ssd's and a couple of nvme ssd's for write cache. Runs a direct 10G fiber through the house to my pc in another room as I need some bandwidth to run my games over iscsi.  even though 1gbps works perfectly as well..

[KuJoe]

4 minutes ago, maxtch said:

Detailed specs?

It's a Dell R610 with dual Xeon X5650s, 48GB of ECC RAM, six hot-swap 300GB SAS drives in hardware RAID10, dual hot-swap PSU, iDRAC6, a USB thumb drive for the OS (VMware ESXi 6.5), and a cheap 2.5" 1TB drive for backups.

 

It's hosted in a data center less than 12ms from me with redundant 1Gbps uplinks and A+B power also.

[maxtch]

1 minute ago, vrod said:

Got a couple of dual socket E5 v1 setups running my vmware lab. For my home server i just run a single E5 v2 cpu. 6 wd red nas drives, 8 dc s3700 ssd's and a couple of nvme ssd's for write cache. Runs a direct 10G fiber through the house to my pc in another room as I need some bandwidth to run my games over iscsi.  even though 1gbps works perfectly as well..

That is one impressive server system.

[maxtch]

2 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

It's a Dell R610 with dual Xeon X5650s, 48GB of ECC RAM, six hot-swap 300GB SAS drives in hardware RAID10, dual hot-swap PSU, iDRAC6, a USB thumb drive for the OS (VMware ESXi 6.5), and a cheap 2.5" 1TB drive for backups.

Is it very loud? It is a legit server though, where did you get it from?

[vrod]

3 minutes ago, maxtch said:

That is one impressive server system.

I got several of the dc s3700 ssd'/ from work as the systems were upgraded and picked up some more for 30 bucks each. Same with boards and cpu's. Bought in a time when it was relatively cheap before the great wave of E5-2670's started to roll. Nvme drives was meant for some hosting I wanted to do but never did.

[KuJoe]

1 minute ago, maxtch said:

Is it very loud? It is a legit server though, where did you get it from?

It's in a data center so I can't hear it. I got the server off eBay for a few hundred bucks.

[maxtch]

3 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

It's in a data center so I can't hear it. I got the server off eBay for a few hundred bucks.

So you are streaming games off the public Internet?

[KuJoe]

Just now, maxtch said:

So you are streaming games off the public Internet?

No, I have a gaming PC. I just use the Windows 10 VM for everything other than gaming. Gaming makes up such a small portion of my time on my computer.

[maxtch]

1 minute ago, KuJoe said:

No, I have a gaming PC. I just use the Windows 10 VM for everything other than gaming. Gaming makes up such a small portion of my time on my computer.

Oh. That is reasonable.

[maxtch]

13 minutes ago, vrod said:

I got several of the dc s3700 ssd'/ from work as the systems were upgraded and picked up some more for 30 bucks each. Same with boards and cpu's. Bought in a time when it was relatively cheap before the great wave of E5-2670's started to roll. Nvme drives was meant for some hosting I wanted to do but never did.

The only things I can pick up from work would be chips and LCD modules...

[RGProductions]

Uhh, I use a plan to use a UPS? Would like to use more server stuff, but anything that isn't out of my ability range is too expensive.

[njmyers3]

I use a UPS with my normal computers. I plan to build a server in a few years, but nothing enterprise-grade 

[maxtch]

1 minute ago, RGProductions said:

Uhh, I use a plan to use a UPS? Would like to use more server stuff, but anything that isn't out of my ability range is too expensive.

You can buy second handed server grade parts. There was a wave of Xeon E5-2670 and E5-2680 which is capable of dual socket operation and performs relatively well even for gaming.

[RGProductions]

2 minutes ago, maxtch said:

You can buy second handed server grade parts. There was a wave of Xeon E5-2670 and E5-2680 which is capable of dual socket operation and performs relatively well even for gaming.

Oh yeah, I know of those, my budget is more or less $200 for a whole system, which puts me squarely uncharted territory

[maxtch]

6 minutes ago, njmyers3 said:

I use a UPS with my normal computers. I plan to build a server in a few years, but nothing enterprise-grade 

It would be better to build your 24/7/365 uptime rig with server-grade parts (Xeon E3-1230v6 + C232 chipset + 16GB DDR4-2133 ECC for example) so you can count on it being online whenever you need it.

[maxtch]

4 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

Oh yeah, I know of those, my budget is more or less $200 for a whole system, which puts me squarely uncharted territory

Something older like Xeon X3330 + Asus P5BV-C + 4x 2GB DDR2-800 ECC then? Second hand everything to save the costs.

 

That is a Core 2 Quad class machine.

[RGProductions]

1 minute ago, maxtch said:

Something older like Xeon X3330 + Asia P5BV-C + 4x 2GB DDR2-800 ECC then? Second hand everything to save the costs.

Really buying whole prebuilts deliver better value IMO, like old quad socket IBMs or something.

[manikyath]

if having 3 UPSes and seperate circuitry for different device groups counts as server class, sure

(although i guess that's more "serverroom/datacenter" class than "server" classs)

 

also, i have some of those "commercial jet engine" class fans laying around to experiment with, but they arent really "used" for obvious reason.

 

EDIT: forgot my "small buisiness grade" linksys VPN router, i forget that thing way too much for the amount of headache it saves me.