My New Project (Think Quad)

[murdmath]

So, I thought you all might want to look at my latest project, seeing as I doubt many people have worked with one of these.

The pictures are here:

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It's a Tyan Thunder K8QS Pro (S4882)
4 - Opteron 848's
8 - 512mb
10 - SCSI Segate 36G 15,0000 RPM Hot Swap HD's on a Adaptec 2200s (One array is raid 10 with 6 drives)
3 - 460 Watt Hotswap Power Supplies (Basically it's 2 + 1, so I've got 920 watts with a standby)


Should be a screaming DB server

Hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I did building it,

Mat

 

[CraigRT]

oh my god.... so sweet!
i have a buddy that wants the Quad Opteron board... I told him it's far too much for his household needs! LOL

so badass though.... NICE setup!

 

[beatle]

But think of the heat and the noise!

(Sorry, have to say something to cover up my envy).

 

[jose]

What OS will you be using ?

Regards,
Jose

 

[Vette73]

Is 4 gig enough to keep the CPU's from losing time from waiting for the ram to refill under hard loads?



But looks sweet. Play any games on it jk

 

[sisooktom]

You pansy, I can't believe you didn't get 850s Sorry, couldn't resist. I too am curious what OS you're gonna run.

 

[murdmath]

I will be putting Windows 2003 Enterprise on it because it supports more then 4G's of memory and it support NUMA. It will also be running SQL Sever 2000 Enterprise.

Mat

 

[imported_Interloper]

That's a lot of copper, yo.

 

[Bartokomus]

While i don't own them, i've had the pleasure of building a multitude of dualies. it is very awesome to sit surrounded by $10, 000-$15, 000 worth of parts... I'm guessing this was a bit more!

If I may:

How are you achieving RAID 10? HW raid for two stripes and then SW? Not familiar with 2200s; thanks.

oh yeah: where the hell is your backup device? lol

 

[OverVolt]

Psshhh, my grandma uses something faster to check her e-mail

 

[murdmath]

Originally posted by: Bartokomus
While i don't own them, i've had the pleasure of building a multitude of dualies. it is very awesome to sit surrounded by $10, 000-$15, 000 worth of parts... I'm guessing this was a bit more!

If I may:

How are you achieving RAID 10? HW raid for two stripes and then SW? Not familiar with 2200s; thanks.

oh yeah: where the hell is your backup device? lol

RAID is all hardware, the 2200 supports the following RAID types: 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, JBOD.

As for backups, we purchased 5 - 80G Iomega USB 2.0 external hard drives. One for each business day. It was a fun machine to build. It takes a bit of time for it to sink in that your working with such a high dollar machine.

Mat

 

[gsethi]

my AMD 2500+ @ 3200+ speeds will still beat that system in games
your lacking AGP port

Sorry, had to mention it as i was getting jealous