Guest asrequested Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 not too bad bit slow lots of little details to get right hopefully first time Just finalising the build of the Lian-li - just waiting for 2012r2 essentials to install - yawn! Man! I need more money, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 we its not an english install so a bit hunt and peck but got it to the english interface eventually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 we its not an english install so a bit hunt and peck but got it to the english interface eventually lol...you installed in another language? And I just noticed your avatar ...nice! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Yes Chinese - hence cheap - but not to bad to just change the language pack and a few other settings and now UK local based Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 I was looking at rack mounting my server and AV equipment, last night. I think that's my next project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 - just wait till the 6 large boxes arrive and its Ikea on steroids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Ha! The rack I'm looking at isn't the behemoth yours is lol. Just a 25U. And I won't be getting it for a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 (edited) mines only 27u so i think you are also looking at the same its 1.4m high by 600mm wide and 800mm deep (which is not enough as it turned out) 10G Intel card then HP P410 SAS card and finally HP SAS Expander Boris side one Boris side 2 Boris with his cloths on Karloff installed and ready for the big turn on Lights dim in Warrington as Boris and Karloff come to life - "..its alivvvvvveee.." Edited November 4, 2016 by PenkethBoy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 That looks fantastic! I need more money, lol. So now you every in on rack? The rack I'm looking at is depth adjustable, so I won't have issues with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 So now you every in on rack? - huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediacowboy 438 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 So now you every in on rack? - huh?I bet he meant is everything in the rack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 lol...I typed that on my phone. I missed a word. So now you have everything on the rack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 ahh ... actually no I will save the surprise for tomorrow when Frankie will make his first appearance along with donor No1 and donor No2 is in the post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessClevage 173 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 ahh ... actually no I will save the surprise for tomorrow when Frankie will make his first appearance along with donor No1 and donor No2 is in the post This is weird enough without naming the servers:pEnjoy this thread tho;) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 This is weird enough without naming the servers:p Enjoy this thread tho;) lol...But it's very apropos, bringing inanimate objects to life. But I think mine would be more 'Weird Science'. I should call it/her Lisa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessClevage 173 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 lol...But it's very apropos, bringing inanimate objects to life. But I think mine would be more 'Weird Science'. I should call it/her Lisa.Second that... Where are the female names... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 This is weird enough without naming the servers:p Enjoy this thread tho;) says the member called PrincessClevage.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 (edited) Have PC's named after Black Adder characters - Queenie, Nursie and Bob and some boys Baldrick, and Percy but always name PC's it gives them a personality - yeah ok it is a bit weird Edited November 5, 2016 by PenkethBoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Well Frankie has not truned up yet but his donors have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Well Frankie has not truned up yet but his donors have I'm not sure what I'm looking at. Are those hot swap drive bays in the front? What are these going to be used for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8317 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Looks like HP ProLiant DL380 G7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 Close DL 380 G6's - yes drive bays for 2.5" sas drives same as Karloff in the rack but only one Quad Xeon for each chassis - Karloff has dual Hex Xeon's - both have minor damage - bent ears which a hair dryer and a smallish hammer should sort - idea is to effectively combine the best of both into one - Dual CPU and Both drive bay cages into one chassis (16 drives) - effectively duplicating same spec as Karloff but dual Quad rather than Hex core.. The two chassis cost £75 each - motherboards and dual power supplies are worth that on their own so get a free server and may even make money on the deal. This combined machine will be my test bed for water cooling the server - so i can pull the fans (which at startup sound like a jumbo taking off next door) - although i need to do a bit of re wiring as the server will not boot with a couple of fans missing out to the bank of 6. Add a couple of quiet fans to give airflow to the case and a Ram cooler or two and it should be no noisier than a pc. If i can fiddle with the power to use a PC power supply then = possible quiet server. As the server has no pc fan headers i will control the water cooling and any new fans with a Raspberry PI or similar. If it works on the test server i will do same on Karloff and Frankie. I was looking on ebay last night and Hex core xeons are becoming very cheap so might swap the cpu's in near future Frankie (DL185) was even cheaper at ~ £40 (incl postage) as he has a bent drive bay rail which is part of the chassis and the seller clearly did not know what they had so i slipped in a cheaky last minute offer before the deadline and he arrives Monday with luck.- again a bit of heat and a persuader should sort the bent rail - but he has 3.5" bays which hopefully allows for some "ordinary" TB SATA drives to be added - we will see and even if not @ £40 quid i get a dual quad core Opteron box to play with. If multi TB disks are supported then its a cheap powerful NAS/DAS/SAN box for my network as a compliment to Boris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 Damn! I don't even have room for all that...well, I could get rid of a few things, lol. I'm looking at getting a server chassis. Noise would be my reservation. I thought about switching all the fans to quiet ones, and getting a fan controller. Or if I can get 4 pin fans, I can plug them into the MB and have them controlled that way. Or I could leave everything as it is....lol...that made me chuckle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 Well i knew they would be noisy but damn ....... had three cats in the room when i plugged in the power not expecting it to turn on by itself .... great way to clear the room - cats exit on full turbo power after inital wtf moment - lol Even when i quiets down after initial 30 sec or so no way you could have it in the lounge etc - far from unnoticeable sound wise - hence going to water cooling - have a couple of cpu blocks on the way - and think i know how to mod the fans etc 6 x 60 mm @ 5000 rpm - wow noisy been in data centres before but never been next to one when in a quiet room when it switched on How much have you got for you rack - even if i used all four its only 8U Oh and these servers dont have four pin fan headers on m/b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 What's a good 8 drive controller card under $200? I was looking at these: LSI and High Point I'll be plugging my 8 NAS drives into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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