Wednesday, December 2, 2009

My new 12TB server



My old server was a MSI wind u100, it had 2 gb of ram a 1.6ghz atom with HT and a total of 2 TB of storage, well I ran out of space so I built a new one......
The new one kicks the old ones ass by far, however I deeply respect my old it went a whole year 24/7 without a single problem and still works great.

I named its replacement US which is a a shorter version of USELESS the name of its predecessor.

Its specs are as Follows:

EVGA Nforce 730i on board nvidia 9400
Core2Quad Q8400 2.66GHz
8GB of DDR2
Nvidia 9800GTX
650 watt silverstone psu
1 TB WD Black
6 2 TB Seagate 5900 HDs
Generic case

I built mostly with spare parts however I just bought all the 2TB drives  for about 900$ from newegg.
It is running windows 7 Ult x64 because I dont like any of microsoft's server distros for my personal server. For thos of you asking why I used a 9800 in a server, its because I plan to run folding@home on it (Fold for team 135878 1.4 million points!).

I am running the 2 TB drives in a RAID 0 config and even though they are only 5900 rpm drives the performance from them is shocking, I used ATTO for a simple benchmark:










I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw that, here is another one
















So thats all, let me know if you have any other questions!

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2 Comments:

Blogger heather said...

Same case here. Your site says your a teenager in high school, how the heck you get all this stuff?

December 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM  
Blogger Steve Price said...

Well that is a bit old, I am just out of highschool now. I also have a very good job.

December 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM  

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