I was hunting for a new affordable whitebox all pieced together for me, IE a desktop that was inline with the HCL. I looked through Best Buy since they usually have decent deals and went to my local CompUSA store to scope things out. I ended up buying a Gateway DX4860 from Best Buy for [...]
After buying all that lovely equipment, what am I going to do with it? I didn’t have to spend long thinking. For the HP storage side, since Dell’s storage is a real SAN, I chose to use OpenSolaris 134b which includes snapshots, dedupe, compression and a nice raid implementation. Since I have 14 disks, I’ll [...]
I was recently asked “If you had $50,000 to spend on a home lab, what equipment would you get, and how would you set everything up?”. Well I had to answer of course. For me, the only 2 real competitors I know are Dell and HP, I know IBM is also out there, but I [...]
Phew, what a PITA. My only concern now is the fact that it’s leaning, I’m a freak about things like this, even if it’s structurally sound. Picture:
Now that I’ve bought the essentials, final pricing! HP ProLiant DL145 x4 — 1U 2.2ghz dual processor 80gb storage 1gb RAM $449.96 USD Extra RAM 1gbx8 $168 Cisco WS-C2950-24 $71 USD Rack Skeletek C24U $166 USD Railing $140 USD —— Total: $995 USD
So I ended up getting these suckers in the mail yesterday, what a PAIN to unpack. Now I’m waiting for my switch to arrive before I actually set them up. One of the last things I really need is a nice rack for these, but I haven’t found anything cheap that’s under 6 ft tall [...]
After much consideration and money counting, I am going to get those 4 servers. I spent about an hour and a half last night browsing all of the top PC sites for lowend servers and could not find one that supported AMD-V/V-T. I really plan on going all out with this as I am never [...]
Just found these sweet puppies, HP ProLiant DL145 G2 for 80 bucks a pop. I’m getting around 500 bucks back in my refund, so I’m grabbing 4 of them. While they don’t support FT and AMD-V, it’s definitely something I willing to forego. Features/Specifications: HP ProLiant DL145 G2 Dual Opteron 2.2 GHz 1U Server General [...]
Lots of posts going around on this. I simply have a desktop with a quadcore 2.2ghz Phenom processor and 6gb of RAM, and 2 500gb-sh drives.