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Hardware Porn (aka our new backups node)

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
So, 3 SSDs + 1 spinning disk Rambo mounted style then 24 drives in the real bays?

Real clean and tight installation.

"namely the single SATA plug each instead of an expander connector"

Why did you opt for a controller that required the per channel cable instead of the expander connector?
There was a $700 price difference :)

3.5" mounted on its side is just the OS drive. The OS drive will be hit so rarely that it didn't really matter.

Francisco
 

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
Francisco goes to Vegas and spends his time taking pictures of  his new conquest...a backup server.  Tragic looks lustfully at the pix and says "Talk about a node, looks good".  DifferentOpinionsNotWanted, barely able to contain his excitement, says "Show me the drives!"

Hmmm, just a suggestion but you guys need to take a few days off, venture outside the data center, and meet some girls. :p

"Business is slow? What do we do?"

-- "Fuck it... lets sell 4GB of RAM for our new offer, for $7... no, wait... $6.95/mo. Yeah, mmmm..."

Sorry, but the new standard is 4GB for $5.
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
Francisco goes to Vegas and spends his time taking pictures of  his new conquest...a backup server.  Tragic looks lustfully at the pix and says "Talk about a node, looks good".  DifferentOpinionsNotWanted, barely able to contain his excitement, says "Show me the drives!"

Hmmm, just a suggestion but you guys need to take a few days off, venture outside the data center, and meet some girls. :p

Sorry, but the new standard is 4GB for $5.
Francisco goes to Vegas and spends his time taking pictures of  his new conquest...a backup server.  Tragic looks lustfully at the pix and says "Talk about a node, looks good".  DifferentOpinionsNotWanted, barely able to contain his excitement, says "Show me the drives!"

Hmmm, just a suggestion but you guys need to take a few days off, venture outside the data center, and meet some girls. :p

Sorry, but the new standard is 4GB for $5.
I've been a tourist a few times already :) I leave tomorrow morning so I got a long day & night ahead of me.

I'm not bothering going back to the hotel tonight. I brought my bags here and if I end up with excess time I'll catch up on TV shows I've missed.

Francisco
 

nunim

VPS Junkie
I've been a tourist a few times already :) I leave tomorrow morning so I got a long day & night ahead of me.


I'm not bothering going back to the hotel tonight. I brought my bags here and if I end up with excess time I'll catch up on TV shows I've missed.


Francisco
Looking good, what kind of tape is it exactly, like that double sided poster squares?  I'm trying to creatively mount an SSD in a MicroATX that's out of drive bays.  

Sherlock!!
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
Looking good, what kind of tape is it exactly, like that double sided poster squares?  I'm trying to creatively mount an SSD in a MicroATX that's out of drive bays.  

Sherlock!!
FFFF I completely forgot that Sherlock started again!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16848035626

You have to be careful. The stuff is super strong so if you place it wrong you better be quick to pull it off.

It has no problem sticking to a chassis case. I installed one of the ssd's wrong in that node (was too high) and I ended up having to scrape the stuff off with a screw driver >_> I was able to slowly get it off the SSD but the chassis itself was annoying.

Francisco
 

tragic

Member
Verified Provider
Francisco goes to Vegas and spends his time taking pictures of  his new conquest...a backup server.  Tragic looks lustfully at the pix and says "Talk about a node, looks good".  DifferentOpinionsNotWanted, barely able to contain his excitement, says "Show me the drives!"

Hmmm, just a suggestion but you guys need to take a few days off, venture outside the data center, and meet some girls. :p

Sorry, but the new standard is 4GB for $5.
"What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" except Hardware Porn
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
Alright I had a minute to snag all the drives out of the cage for a glamour shot.

qxvNrNb.jpg

7K1nxiP.jpg

Since I know someone will ask (probably Aldryic >_>), the roll of toilet paper is being used to wipe down heatsinks after I used some thermal paste removal.

Yes, there's a trash bin full of what looks to be robotic jizz because of it >_>

Francisco
 

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
Looking good, what kind of tape is it exactly, like that double sided poster squares?  I'm trying to creatively mount an SSD in a MicroATX that's out of drive bays.  

Sherlock!!
I use velcro.  Sticky on one side 'cro on the other... matching piece goes on whatever...  It's able to be separated with a little oomph... Better than tape to tape in my opinion....
 

johnlth93

New Member
Alright I had a minute to snag all the drives out of the cage for a glamour shot.

qxvNrNb.jpg

7K1nxiP.jpg


Since I know someone will ask (probably Aldryic >_>), the roll of toilet paper is being used to wipe down heatsinks after I used some thermal paste removal.


Yes, there's a trash bin full of what looks to be robotic jizz because of it >_>


Francisco
Just wondering, are they 3.5"?
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
Of course :)

Do they even make anything > 1TB in a 2.5" form?

I thought I saw a 2TB but I don't think so...

Francisco
 

Shados

Professional Snake Miner
Alright I had a minute to snag all the drives out of the cage for a glamour shot.

qxvNrNb.jpg

7K1nxiP.jpg


Since I know someone will ask (probably Aldryic >_>), the roll of toilet paper is being used to wipe down heatsinks after I used some thermal paste removal.


Yes, there's a trash bin full of what looks to be robotic jizz because of it >_>


Francisco
You have no idea how often the trash bin in my room appears to have suffered the same fate.
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
So the ultimate question is that 80TB enough for 70+ openvz nodes that you have in LV? :)
There's ways of making it go the distance ;)

I don't expect everyone to want them enabled anyways. Some users will insist on doing their own backups and some will disable them due to privacy concerns.

Francisco
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
filesystem? looks nice apart from the messy table :lol:
Not sure yet.

That table was a warzone. At one point I was assembling NJ storage, KVM nodes 13 & 14, new nodes for OVZ SSD upgrades, & the beast we call the desolate one.

Francisco
 
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