Few Acquisitions for our company Server

[coius]

we scored some parts off of Craigslist and Freecycle to enhance our server.

2x 256MB (FreeCycle) PC-133

40MB/s U-Wide SCSI Card (PCI) with REAL hardware RAID (battery-backed 64MB Cache) with two controller chips. External SCSI and Internal SCSI. This also came with a 120GB Tape drive (used) but we also bought 5 120GB Tape cartridges. This cost us $50 on craigslist

32MB Diamond ATI RageGL AGP 4x Video card (SDRAM) on an AGP 8x Slot (freecycle, from same guy as RAM)

40GB NIB ATA/133 Harddrive ($10) (Craigslist)

DVD-+RW DL. ATA/100 and 56x CD-RW (craigslist $20 for the pair)

ATX Case (generic) it looks like it had a computer in it built by CTG Computer Consultants. (freecycle, we put out a request )

So far, these are the computer specs:

750MHz AMD Duron w/ 256K L2 Cache on 133Mhz FSB

512MB SDRAM @ 133Mhz (this has some odd timing on the board. Almost different than the CPU Multiplier)

Micron-PC Logic board with 6 PCI Slots and AGP 4x

32MB Diamond AGP 4x RageGL Video card

RoseWill PCI SATA FAKE RAID card (using softare RAID under the OS) w/ 2 SATA Connectors

2x 1TB 7200RPM harddrives (Hitachi) w/ 32MB DDR2 Cache SATA

40GB ATA/100 harddrive for Boot

PCI RealTek 1000Mbps Ethernet Card

PCI RealTek 100Mbps Ethernet Card

LG DVD-+RW DL

56x CD-RW

Loaded to the gills with Fans (6 at minimum)

750 Watt PSU with 4 SATA Power Connectors and 12x Molex (2 of them for small drives (Micro-Molex)

SCSI with Hardware RAID. 40MB/s. 64MB Battery-backed cache. PCI

120GB SCSI Tape Drive

Generic ATX Case Full Tower

and best of all...

Ubuntu 7.10 Server (will be Ubuntu 8 after I get done with all the updates)

LAMP and SMB File Sharing

Software RAID on the Terabyte drives

Whatcha think?

 

[gobabushka]

I think that if u put an athlon in there, that will be a kickbutt server!

 

[quinterro]

It's pretty good for what you have paid for it. While it may not be the fastest thing in the world as long as it does what you need that's all that matters.

 

[4seasonphoto]

Hard to say: Depends on what you guys are going to use it for, and how much energy it will consume.

If that's Socket 939, I may have a Athlon64/3500 "Winchester" CPU sitting around.

 

[Quadraman]

Not using a Mac server?

 

[quinterro]

Hard to say: Depends on what you guys are going to use it for, and how much energy it will consume.
If that's Socket 939, I may have a Athlon64/3500 "Winchester" CPU sitting around.

It's a Socket A chip. No Durons were made for Socket 754 or 939, only Semprons.

 

[Temetka]

Dang beaten by Quinterro.

EDIT: Should make for a decent little server though. I set up a 900MHz Duron with 768MB of RAM and 2x80GB HD's in software RAID. It's got pretty good Apache performance so far.

 

[4seasonphoto]

Hard to say: Depends on what you guys are going to use it for, and how much energy it will consume.
If that's Socket 939, I may have a Athlon64/3500 "Winchester" CPU sitting around.

It's a Socket A chip. No Durons were made for Socket 754 or 939, only Semprons.

Ah well, that's that then.